REVIEWS A beautiful coffee table book captures the colours and emotions of the ties between the peoples of South-East Asia – ties that are at risk of changing, even breaking entirely nowadays.

COMMUNITY A centre for knowledge, information, leisure and pleasure – the public library can be all these, and more.

REVIEWS He began his professional career as a family physician but wound up prescribing innovative political medicine for an entire nation – and some of his “prescriptions” were controversial enough to gain international attention.

REVIEWS Here’s a box of assorted biscuits, of every-flavour sweets, a refreshing new anthology with a range of voices and styles.