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Somerset Maugham's short story “The Letter” serves as the linchpin of Tran Twan Eng’s third novel, “The House of Doors,” which was selected for the 2023 Booker Prize long list.
Tan Twan Eng’s ‘The House Of Doors’ has been longlisted for the 2024 Walter Scott Prize
A historic journal detailing an exhibition of the Malay States has been donated to the Natural History Museum by an Isle of Wight family.
The doorman in the white short-sleeved shirt and shorts, white knee-length socks and pith helmet smiles, presses his palm to his heart and pushes the heavy wooden doors open for me. The lobby of the Eastern & Oriental Hotel is an icy, blessed sanctuary from the heat beating down on the streets outside, and I feel myself cooling down immediately. I am in Penang, off the north-west coast of Malaysia, to launch my new novel, The House of Doors, at a refurbished 1930s cinema in the heart of George T
His books entrenched the picture of English men and women in the colonies as snobbish, petty and prone to scandal