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Films Spark sales for Nicholas
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Movie Tie-Ins, News and Events
Two blockbuster films adapted from Nicholas Sparks novels have propelled the author’s romantic fiction to sales of an all-time high.
Sales of Sparks’ titles across all editions have sold more copies in the past six weeks (to the week ending 1st May) than throughout the entirety of 2009 according to Nielsen BookScan. Sparks racked up volume [...]
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How To Become a Millionaire Property Investor & Landlord?
It was at 8pm on 23rd February 2010 when I had attended Renesial Leong’s 2-hour property seminar that reminded me one of the ways of how the poor build their wealth from scratch. Below is the summary of some information that was shared during the property seminar:
The benefits of trading in properties by using the [...]
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The Lost Man Booker Prize Longlist Announced
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Back in 1971, the Booker Prize was revamped to honour the best novel of the year based on its year of publications. In doing so, many books published in 1970 were left out in the dark with no opportunity of winning a Booker Prize… until this year. The Lost Man Booker Prize is the brainchild [...]
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2009 Costa Award Winners Announced
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The Costa Book Awards was pretty much unheard of, here – until 2005, when Malaysian-born Tash Aw won the award for Best First Novel for his book, The Harmony Silk Factory. His second book, The Invisible Map, was released last year.
The Costa Book Awards was previously known as the The Whitbread Literary Awards. Costa, a growing coffee [...]
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67th Golden Globes Nominations Announced
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I love watching award shows – though most of the time, being Astro-less, I’ll have to wait till the re-runs are on other channels. Or yes, I could just keep up with the news on the internet. So, it was with excitement that I found out that the nominations for the 67th Golden Globe Awards [...]
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Sini Sana: Travels in Malaysia: Send MPH your travel stories!
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The diverse culture of Malaysia invites travellers both local and foreign to marvel at towering cityscapes where modernity dazzles with luxury or go through old trunk roads surrounded by oil palm plantations to get to breathtaking mountains, caves, beaches and the tropical rainforests. And, of course, every traveller is amazed by food that can be [...]
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Yasmin Ahmad’s Biography
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Yasmin Ahmad (January 7, 1958 – July 25, 2009) was a critically-acclaimed multi-award winning film director, writer and scriptwriter from Malaysia and was also the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well-known in Malaysia for their humour, heart and love that crosses cross-cultural barriers, in particular her [...]
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2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist Announced
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the world’s most valuable (worth €100,000) annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English and is a Dublin City Council initiative, in partnership with IMPAC. The nominations come from 163 libraries in 123 cities and 43 countries worldwide. Cllr. Emer Costello, the Lord Mayor of [...]
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Asterix
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Although he does not have the impressive muscle-bound physique of the heroes Albert Uderzo drew at first, Asterix is the only anti-hero to boast such a collection of success stories and heroic feats.
Throughout his adventures, where his legendary wile and the precious magic potion concocted by the druid Getafix allow him to escape from the [...]
