Lit Books Trivia Night: All Things Greek
We're having our first themed quiz for the next Trivia Night, and we have decided to do as the Romans did and go Greek! This means mythology, Greek authors, books with 'Greek' in their title, and bildungsromans and roman a clefs featuring Greek Life. So as part of a themed night, we promise that at […]
Book Launch: Fight Through Cartoons by Zunar
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaWe're excited to be hosting a meet-and-greet and book signing with political cartoonist, Zunar, on his tell-all book, Fight Through Cartoons. In the soon-to-be released memoir, Zunar shares the harassment and intimidation he faced as a political cartoonist in Malaysia, covering the period between August 2009 and May 9, 2018 — the banning of his […]
A dialogue on Nicci Gerrard’s What Dementia Teaches Us About Love
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaDescribed by some circles as the “plague of our time” and the “disease of the century", dementia is the price that we pay for our longevity. Incurable and inexorable, the question for our time is less how dementia can be prevented but how patients, caregivers, institutions and society can work together to create meaningful and […]
PEN Malaysia: First Public Meeting & Introduction
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaAspiring PEN Malaysia would like to invite you to our first Public Meeting to introduce you to the Constitution of PEN Malaysia, the PEN Charter, and to conduct all necessary formalities related to the creation of a new PEN centre. Formed in 1921, PEN is the world's oldest organisation for writers, and has fought for […]
Meet the Author: Suffian Hakim
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaTogether with Diana and Honey from the Two Book Nerds Talking podcast, we’re excited to be hosting Suffian Hakim at our store in July! He will be here to talk about his new book, The Minorities, a hilarious tale of four friends living in a flat and a forlorn Pontianak that begins haunting them. Written […]
Skype Session with Yangsze Choo
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaThe author of The Night Tiger and Ghost Bride joins us for a live author-reader discussion of her wondrous, nostalgic novel. This session is co-hosted by the Kuala Lumpur Book Appreciation Club and Lit Books.
PEN Malaysia: Second Public Meeting & Introduction
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaAspiring PEN Malaysia would like to invite you to our first Public Meeting to introduce you to the Constitution of PEN Malaysia, the PEN Charter, and to conduct all necessary formalities related to the creation of a new PEN centre. Formed in 1921, PEN is the world's oldest organisation for writers, and has fought for […]
Meet the Author: Tash Aw
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaJoin us for an evening with London-based prize-winning Malaysian author Tash Aw at Lit Books! He will be speaking about his latest and most personal novel to-date called We, The Survivors. Set in contemporary Malaysia, the novel is about an ordinary man, Ah Hock and the years building up to his appalling act of violence: […]
Sweatheart No. 9
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaSweatheart No. 9 will be happening on Friday, 16 August 2019, 8:30 p.m. at Lit Books! If you haven't already heard, Sweatheart—NOT Sweetheart—is a monthly storytelling night in Kuala Lumpur, featuring true seven-minute stories told live by both practiced performers and first-timers. There's no theme this month, so anything goes. If you've got a story, […]
In Conversation with Daryl Yeap, author of ‘The King’s Chinese’
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaJoin us for an author session with Daryl Yeap, who will be speaking about her book, The King's Chinese. The King’s Chinese chronicles the incredible life of the “merchant prince of Penang”, Yeap Chor Ee. A penniless migrant from China, Yeap Chor Ee started out in Penang as a barber but rose to become Penang’s […]
