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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...

17A 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...

Translated by Shelly Bryant “For many years, I have made my living by the pen. In 2005, when my autobiography was published in Chinese, I gave it t...

This is a personal and philosophical account of schizophrenia that aims to raise awareness of mental health issues. The personal aspect of the book...

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...

Singapore lawyer Teo Soh Lung has written this careful account of her experiences and feelings when detained in Whitley Detention Centre 21 from Ma...

Hokkien Button is no ordinary dog. She was trained as a therapy pet who understands Hokkien, winning the hearts of many. When Fiona first meets But...

At the turn of the millennium, American-born Paige Parker and investment guru Jim Rogers spend three years—1,101 days to be exact—driving over six ...

Illustrated by Lai Hui Li Philip Yeo was a curious boy who loved to read. He learnt a lot about the world from books, and went to Canada to study. ...

Translasted by Jeremy Tiang In this mix of memoir, essay and nature writing, Wong Yoon Wah evokes the beauty and seduction of the tropical rainfore...

Why would someone leave a shining career in management to work among the dead? Angjolie Mei, funeral director and "life celebrant", recounts how th...

Eye on the World is the third and concluding volume of Tan Kok Seng’s autobiography, where he and his young family go to bustling Hong Kong. He wri...

Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said ...

Growing up as a woman is hard. Growing up as a woman in the Muslim community is harder. In a world still filled with superstitions, if you die duri...

Presented in Q&A format, and enriched with strong contextual narrative, each chapter features Lee in full flow – sometimes combative, occasiona...

"As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating...

Does home have to be a country or a city? ... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate...We seemed always to have been home. Wang Gung...

Ten years ago, Liyana Dhamirah was in a precarious situation: at 22, she was heavily pregnant and had no place to call home. For Liyana, home was o...

On the 11th of March, 2011, Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife to the tsunami during the Great East Japan earthquake. Since that fateful day, he has bee...

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...

Kwa Geok Choo was most famously known as the woman behind the man who shaped Singapore. But more than just the wife of the late PM Lee Kuan Yew, sh...

Philip Yeo is unlike any civil servant. He prefers action over talk, cartoons over words and speed over due process. The maverick was blunt, direct...

‘Tarawih’ (Arabic) comes from the root word that means to take a rest, and take rest I did. Notes After Terawih is a series of word sketches I drew...

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...

Growing up as a child in Singapore and Malaya in the 1960s was an idyllic experience. Thousands of children of naval personnel will have the same f...

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

153,000 foreign construction workers - 47% - were infected by COVID-19 in Singapore. MD Sharif Uddin gives voice to their experience through his pe...

The sacrifices of migrant workers are written in every inch of Singapore – in the bricks of buildings, ship irons, under the floor of houses. Thous...

Volume 9 contains photos and scanned images of letters and documents. Bilingual in Chinese and English. Paperback: 207 PagesProduct Dimensions: 178...

The Magic Circle tells the story of what happens when Charmaine Chan’s sister Elaine is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer. As the illness...

In 26 conversations with 26 naysayers, this book is aimed at reflecting the spectrum of naysaying in Singapore's civil society. Each person is inte...

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...

Some things never change. Be it the 90s or today, we all have the same hopes, fears, aspirations, desires and things that make us tick. Time just m...

Love and hate. Truth and deceit. Life and death. Words whose meanings are forged through and against their dialectical opposites. But how do you ca...

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 Sound of SCH (pronounced S-C-H) is the true story of a journey with mental illness, beautifully told by Danielle Lim from a time when she grew ...

Born of Tamil and Teochew parents, he embraced the Protestant faith late in his life. He has a self-confessed fetish for Yeats and Pound and yet co...

What happens when an entire community is moved?  Dakota Crescent was one of Singapore's oldest public housing estates and a rental flat neighbourho...

‘Adoption’ is the new badge of honour; Adoption is the new ‘Black’. We Adopted is an anthology of modern, real life fairy tales of doggie salvation...

Where are all the birds? Why am I in this world? Where are my spectacles? Discover the life of Dr Goh Keng Swee in this fun and unique narrative of...

translated by Leong Weng Kam 本书是梁家子女对父母孝思的深切缅怀，也是马来亚上世 纪辉煌矿业史当中，霹雳怡保著名矿家梁典不为人知的许 多精彩故事。其中包括矿区动荡与帮派械斗，梁典在二战 时期扛起艰险的霹雳矿务公会会长职务，在外敌威吓下坚 持不向华社筹款缴集“奉纳金”...