Non-fiction

In 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...

In this book, you’ll find the annotated scripts of two acclaimed lecture performances written by Ng Yi-Sheng, exploring forgotten chapters of Singa...

Why is it important to imbibe a thinking culture? What can contemporary Malays contribute by way of an active intellectual and social life towards ...

This is a statement, an art piece, a belief, a dream, an idea. This is an observation, an obsession, a process, a completion. This is a question, a...

"This journey of mine welcomes you to slow down and stop for a moment to digest the purpose of food and eating. To me, food is a catalyst for human...

What is it like to be gay and experience bullying in school or National Service? How do you deal with being rejected by your family and religious g...

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in Singapore. But how many of us know what it takes to brew a cuppa? Full-time artist Alvin Mark Tan re...

What is a Eurasian? Are Eurasians Singaporean? What does it mean to be a Eurasian living in Singapore? While having existed in Singapore as long as...

Growing up in Singapore wasn't as easy as it seemed. It was competitive yet conservative at the same time. In this personal memoir, Debbie Lee reco...

Phenomenon No. II is a scientific hypothesis about the circumstances surrounding the life of Pao, a wedge-head carrot. The scientific analysis is p...

Semi Private Life in Helsinki is a visual journal in four parts. It documents the every-other-day life of artist Aiwei Foo, during her years in Fin...

Semi Private Life in Helsinki is a visual journal in four parts. It documents the every-other-day life of artist Aiwei Foo, during her years in Fin...

Semi Private Life in Helsinki is a visual journal in four parts. It documents the every-other-day life of artist Aiwei Foo, during her years in Fin...

Semi Private Life in Helsinki is a visual journal in four parts. It documents the every-other-day life of artist Aiwei Foo, during her years in Fin...

This book is dedicated to the traveler. But not just any traveler, mind you. It is meant for the wide-eyed, sometimes curious, occasionally weary-h...

edited by Jason Wee First published in 2006, the groundbreaking collection of coming out stories was the first affirming non-fiction volume accompa...

A girl who nearly meets with death while on board a plane from Paris to Marrakech; a boy who fills her arms with paper animals under the open skies...

Troy Chin might have made a mistake. A BIG mistake. Having left the music industry in New York City for his hometown in little-red-dotty Singapore,...

It ain't easy trying to take it easy. Or so it seems. Whether you're a tourist or a charlatan, a bum or a dreamer, a poet or a lover, life will som...

And then there were three. Growing up sure is complicated when you’ve got school to balance, friends to forge and futures to prepare. What do you d...

Enter the second loop. Four years back on the island have wrought some heart-rending changes, and entire lifetimes seem to have gone by. But is it ...

Winning a battle, but losing the war. Adulthood is a constant challenge, especially when you’re caught in circumstances that are out of your contro...

This is the good life. With hard work comes the corresponding spoils. That’s the theory, anyway. But what if all the fast cars and beautiful compan...

Letting go of a dear one is hard to do. What lies in the beyond is an ineffable mystery. But what place can concepts like the afterlife — or karma,...

The Camino de Santiago is a popular pilgrimage route in Europe. Globetrotting artist Alvin Mark Tan walks 800km of the way over 30 days, and record...

The HDB block is full of look-out points. From the openness of the void deck to our windows that look out onto those of the block opposite; to live...

Each book is customised to reflect the culture and behaviours of Singaporeans.  Yesteryears captures 50 abandoned and forgotten buildings in Singap...