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Eleven writers from the Philippines and nine from Singapore were connected via Google Docs and a pining for “the composition of alternatives, other...
View full detailsEleven writers from the Philippines and nine from Singapore were connected via Google Docs and a pining for “the composition of alternatives, other...
View full details17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung’s growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red-light precinct in China...
View full detailsThis action-packed thriller follows a squad of 18-year-olds who must fight an army of Savages in a war they did not choose. Ren is an elite fighter...
View full details1819. That was the year Stamford Raffles landed at South Point and founded SIngapore. It was also the year that the famous Muslim saint Habib Nuh c...
View full detailsEarly thirteenth century CE. The Srivijaya Empire, considered to be one of the world's greatest maritime forces, has been abruptly left powerless i...
View full details50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization. Organized into ...
View full detailsIn this rare book, The Necessary Stage has compiled a stimulating collection of essays and discussions that survey aspects of 10 years of Singapore...
View full detailsSix suicide bombers have slipped into Singapore. Their mission: to set off explosives on the country’s 55th National Day. They were sent by Tun, an...
View full detailsMalaya. A land of unparalleled richness. For centuries, the peninsular has attracted fortune hunters, money-grabbing pirates and migrants seeking a...
View full detailsChange is what happens to everything: history is humanity's attempt to make sense of this inevitability. In his debut collection of poetry, Daryl L...
View full detailsIn 2008, Ng Yi-Sheng won the Singapore Literature Prize for Last Boy, a debut collection which explored the poet's coming of age as a gay man. A Bo...
View full details"Early in my working life I had discovered that salesmanship consisted not of providing people with what they needed, but with that which was essen...
View full detailsSatirical and sympathetic, political and personal, A Certain Exposure traces the adolescences of twin brothers Andrew and Brian, culminating in the...
View full detailsLee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...
View full detailsHold your screams and enter a world of seasonal creatures, dreams of bones, and confessions modeled from open eyes and endless insomnia. Christina ...
View full detailstranslated by Zakaria Ali and Muhammad Herwanto Johari Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s poems are not written to be pretty: there is blood, pus, rape, slim...
View full detailsA Field Guide to Supermarkets in Singapore is a 19th century reference book (on philology? art history? anthropology? nobody remembers) that fell i...
View full detailsThis collection contains the latest works from Cultural Medallion recipient Prof Edwin Thumboo. Of note are the poems based on biblical characters,...
View full detailsUnapologetic, unafraid and unyielding, Alfian’s second collection of verse delves in greater depth the concerns in his first volume and moves into ...
View full detailsC. M. Turnbull’s one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was published in 1977. Revised fully twice,...
View full detailsHave you ever heard of the Kummies? They are plant people who live on a fruit farm. They look identical, think alike and do the same thing every ot...
View full detailsSingapore is a country of many invented, transplanted, or self-made myths and fables, but one looms above them all. 1969 marks the famous declarati...
View full detailsWhat does the future of Singapore hold? In 2015, the anthology A Luxury We Cannot Afford commemorated 50 years of man-made myth — 50 years of myste...
View full detailsAward-winning poet and playwright Alfian Sa'at calls for greater support for the arts in our city-state.Paperback: 48 PagesProduct Dimensions: 120 ...
View full detailsFew nations if any, have ever held two national elections in a span of four months. Fewer still are key players who took part in both. This book is...
View full detailsThis is a personal and philosophical account of schizophrenia that aims to raise awareness of mental health issues. The personal aspect of the book...
View full detailsKueny isn’t much of a worrier, except maybe when it comes to her father, the Custodian of a Thousand Generations, whose soul is hanging by a thread...
View full detailsOn the cusp of independence, cultures collide in a bedroom in Singapore. As the Vietnam War rages on, the English-educated scholar Lee Hua Min—“the...
View full detailsWelcome to ABC Kiam Chye Char Loti. For this edition, we've invited the usual suspects to bring you through the quirks of our "national language" i...
View full detailsIn a lasting marriage, one could still outlive the other. A poet gazes upon his older partner, pondering the inevitable. Panic, heartache, and a su...
View full detailsAfterimage: an image that continues to appear even after the original has ceased. Werner Kho’s debut poetry collection is both personal and yet uni...
View full detailsAmong the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who trav...
View full detailsAir-Conditioned Nation Revisited is an anthology of essays on Singapore politics by Cherian George. It draws upon his influential collection Singap...
View full detailsIn this issue, we want to explore what it means to move and to be moved—across time, space, worlds, and circumstances. Why do people move? How do...
View full detailsIn an alternate 1947 filled with mystical creatures, Singapuran boy-soldier Naufal Jazair is bonded to the merlion Bahana and enlisted in a war aga...
View full detailsThis new poetry collection stands as a record of a friendship between two artists formed in the shadow of illness and mortality. Using the renga an...
View full detailsPolly and Frank are young and in love, a lifetime together before them. But one evening in 1980, as the Texas sun sets over their shoulders, the wo...
View full detailsIn And Other Rivers, lives are carved open from tip to tail and laid out for display. A child watches her father perform a lunar new year ritual. F...
View full detailsThe silent interplay between beauty and darkness, pain and healing. In this collection of short stories, Singapore Literature Prize-winner Danielle...
View full detailsIn 2003, a young woman leaves home without telling her family that she is not coming back. She spends the next six years moving from house to house...
View full detailsillustrated by Speak Cryptic From a crow and his famous pitcher to a story about a spiteful bee, Aesop’s fables have been known to instruct or affi...
View full detailsDevout Catholic school teacher Annabelle Thong never thought her chastity was a liability – until she runs away to Paris to find Prince Charming. E...
View full detailsIn a world inundated by all kinds of texts that can be scanned almost as soon as they’re produced, and that as quickly shimmer away into oblivion, ...
View full detailsWhen Singapore declared independence in 1965, it faced the monumental task of building a military from scratch. Aristocracy of Armed Talent tells t...
View full detailsShowcasing all their work from Universe and New World Series, Around The World Across The Universe chronologically displays Phunk‘s evolution as a ...
View full detailsRosie “Aunty” Lee—feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home cooking restaurant—is back in another delectable, witt...
View full detailsRosie “Aunty” Lee, the feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home cooking restaurant, is back in another delectabl...
View full detailsThis delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie "Aunty" Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home-cooking...
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