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The Straits Times Weekly Bestsellers Jan 10

BookTalk

Tamara Singh of non-profit The Nature Conservancy grew up on David Eddings and Agatha Christie

Ms Tamara Singh with the books she reads at home on Dec 29, 2025, for the ST Life BookTalk column.

Ukraine, arms and Indomie: Book on relations between Russia and S-E Asia plots shifts in attitudes

Singapore-based researcher and author Ian Storey delves into the diversity of regional views towards Russia in his book, Putin’s Russia And Southeast Asia.

Banker-turned-author tells forgotten story of Indian prisoners in Singapore during World War II

Author Gautam Hazarika, with his book, The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II, at SPH on Nov 28, 2025.

TikTok drives ‘bizarre’ rush to Prague library’s book tower

The Idiom, a statue by Slovak artist Matej Kren, is a cylindrical tower of 8,000 books.

Quick reads, shorter waits: NLB trial offers faster access to over 900 popular titles

The Fastback Collection is being trialled at Punggol Library (above) and Central Library from Jan 7 to June 30.

TBR (To Be Read)

Contrasting takes on masculinity in David Szalay’s Flesh and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

Hungarian-British author David Szalay (left) with his book, Flesh, and Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro.

The Straits Times Weekly Bestsellers Jan 3

DallerGut author Miye Lee goes from healing fiction to psychological thriller

SingLit in 2026: A video game anthology, new book by Teo You Yenn, Epigram’s all-women shortlist

(Clockwise from left) We Saw Mountains by Diana Rahim, Chia Joo Ming and Theophilus Kwek.

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