Uma Gets Romantic with Books

Stuck for what to buy your love for Valentine's Day?  Of course I'm going to say "A book".  So did Umapagan Ampikaipakan on his book show on BFM 89.9.  The titles he suggested :

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The History of Love by Nichola Krauss
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Here's why :



(More suggestions for Valentine reading, archived on this blog.)

Also on BFM this week -  Shazmin Shamsuddin  interviewed Chinese Stories in Times of Change author David T. K. Wong, so if you missed the talk the other day at CHAI, you should enjoy this.

Our Local Oprah Announces a Book Club!

Umapagan Ampikaipakan talks about detective fiction on his BFM89.9 and talks about Shamini Flint's Inspector Singh series, Qio Xiaolong's Inspector Chen novels, Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy. All the books are available from MPH and will be in the shops with special stickers on them.

Uma also announces  a new book club - you have a month to read Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and I am going to be one of the guests discussing it with Uma.  Now to re-re-read it!

More of Uma's shows are archived here if you want to play catch up, and they are full of great recommendations if you are not sure what to read. (And I must say that I am really happy about the way BFM keep their programmes accessible in this way so that those of us who forget to tune in at the right time can enjoy the talks later.)

Kam Does Radio

Author Kam Raslan is interviewed on BFM89.9 and shares some of his favourite music with us.  Totally agree with him on the choice of Joni Mitchell track - one of my favourites too.