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For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-fo...
View full detailsFor Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-fo...
View full detailsWritten under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and outlandish tales of Alice B. Sheldon are some of the greatest science fiction sho...
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 detailsIn 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919: of the people who to...
View full detailsJock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasising about sex and contemplating suicide. As ...
View full detailsThe year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates...
View full detailsIn twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. How can we protect ourselves from...
View full detailsIn this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including: There's no...
View full detailsIdentical twins, Georgia and Bessi Hunter, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors mu...
View full detailsThe hero of this mordant portrayal of life in contemporary Cuba is a black Cuban whose parents were enthusiastic supporters of the Castro Revolutio...
View full detailsFor an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carr...
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 detailsThis book is an anthology of essays recording debates and discourses that took place leading up to the 14th General Election, the historic election...
View full detailsMost people would like to be more creative, more persuasive and more attractive. For years, gurus and 'life coaches' have urged people to improve t...
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 detailsJing-nan has known Peggy Lee, a bullying frenemy who runs her family’s huge corporation, since high school. Peggy’s father has been kidnapped, and ...
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 detailsThis classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who wins the love and admiration o...
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 detailsSet in a nineteenth century similar to our own, A Bloodsmoor Romance follows the beautiful Zinn sisters, five young women who refuse--for the most ...
View full detailsBridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women’s Studies Section of a bookshop 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 detailsKnute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart a...
View full detailsA Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a m...
View full detailsThis book tells the story of Bali--the "paradise island of the Pacific"--its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world. Ba...
View full detailsFor millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it neve...
View full detailsIndonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian his...
View full detailsJamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From th...
View full detailsThe story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disor...
View full detailsA girl walks through the slums of Kolkata holding an armful of books. She returns home smelling of smoke, and checks her most prized possession: a ...
View full detailsIn this second volume, Nick Jenkins is struggling to establish himself in London after graduating from university. As old friends come and go - Str...
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