PEN Malaysia: First Public Meeting & Introduction

Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Aspiring 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, Malaysia

Together 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, Malaysia

The 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, Malaysia

Aspiring 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, Malaysia

Join 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, Malaysia

Sweatheart 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, […]

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In Conversation with Daryl Yeap, author of ‘The King’s Chinese’

Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Join 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 […]

Book Launch Party: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

PRAISE BE for Margaret Atwood’s much-anticipated The Testaments, the long-awaited sequel to her 1985 critically acclaimed novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. In the brilliant sequel, Atwood answers the questions that have tantalised readers for decades. The story picks up 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. The Testaments has […]

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Architecture & Independence

Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Between 2001 and 2006, architectural historian Lai Chee Kien conducted a series of interviews with the key architects, engineers and artists who contributed to the landscape of Kuala Lumpur and its outskirts at the time of Independence. The 10 projects – Merdeka Stadium, Merdeka Park, University of Malaya, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Stadium Negara, Muzium […]

Meet the Author: Dato M. Shanmughalingam

Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Dato M. Shanmughalingam's short stories and poems have been published in over 30 international and national anthologies in France, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK and the US. A winner of the British Council Short Story Prize and editor's choice for the Fish International Short Story Prize, Shan has been an international and current affairs […]