A Calamitous Chinese Killing and Aegis Rising

Shirin S. Segran | Shamini Flint

21-Jan-14 14:00

A Calamitous Chinese Killing and Aegis Rising

This week on Bookmark, Literary Reviewer Umapagan Ampikaipakan presents two separate interviews: first he catches up with Singapore-based Malaysian author Shamini Flint, and discusses her latest book in The Inspector Singh series, “A Calamitous Chinese Killing”; and in a separate interview, he chats with 17-year-old Shirin Segran about her first full-length novel, “Aegis Rising.”

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