Page Turners
If you like curry puffs, a strong cuppa kopi and Singapore fiction, then check out “Kopi, Puffs & Dreams” – a tale of two BFFs who set up an F&B empire. But matters of the heart and business wranglings threaten to tear them apart. Author Pallavi Gopinath Aney spills more to Page Turners’ host and producer Melanie Oliveiro.
Sharon Wee takes Page Turners host & producer Melanie Oliveiro on a Peranakan / Straits Chinese culinary journey via the cookbook ‘Growing Up in a Nonya Kitchen’. Whether it’s whipping up some ‘itek sio’ or baking rows of pineapple tarts, each traditional recipe honours Wee’s mother whose language of love was best expressed in her tried-and-tested dishes and snacks.
If you like curry puffs, a strong cuppa kopi and Singapore fiction, then check out “Kopi, Puffs & Dreams” – a tale of two BFFs who set up an F&B empire. But matters of the heart and business wranglings threaten to tear them apart. Author Pallavi Gopinath Aney spills more to Page Turners’ host and producer Melanie Oliveiro.
Fleeing bloodshed in pre-Partition Bengal and settling in pre-independence Malaya, “A Flutter in the Colony” by academic Sandeep Ray is an immigrant’s tale of tragedy, love and redemption. He tells Page Turners’ presenter and producer Melanie Oliveiro about his debut novel’s underlying themes.
In “The Formidable Miss Cassidy”, Scottish heroine Leda tries her darndest to excel at a governess job in 1800s Singapore. But monsters and vampires insist on getting in her way. Singaporean author Meihan Boey tells Page Turners’ Melanie Oliveiro how this award-winning horror-comedy novel came to be.
What’s it like tending to the dead for a living? Dr Rohayu Adnan – one of Malaysia’s leading forensic pathologists – tells Page Turners host and producer Melanie Oliveiro about a job less ordinary, as detailed in her book “A Dead Body Never Lies”.
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