
17A Keong Saik Road
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...
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 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 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 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 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 detailsAir-Conditioned Nation Revisited is an anthology of essays on Singapore politics by Cherian George. It draws upon his influential collection Singap...
View full detailsSingapore lawyer Teo Soh Lung has written this careful account of her experiences and feelings when detained in Whitley Detention Centre 21 from Ma...
View full detailsThis collection of four plays by Alfian Sa’at explores the themes that have become a hallmark of the playwright’s work: national identity, racial r...
View full detailsAlfian Sa’at explores the Malay identity and racial relations in this third volume of the Collected Plays series. This volume collects plays writte...
View full detailsAlfian Sa’at’s The Asian Boys Trilogy is a fascinating, insightful tour through the lives and loves of the gay community in Singapore. In the campy...
View full detailsWith crayons and stained paper, artist Ho Chee Lick wanders around neighbourhoods in Singapore observing, perceiving, looking for that “something”:...
View full detailsIn the electrifying months leading up to the watershed 2011 General Elections and in the tumultuous months after, playwright Alfian Sa’at interview...
View full detailsCordelia, Grace Chia’s second poetry collection, excavates from the imagery of life, art and modernity to create a mélange of fragmented colours in...
View full detailsCorridor is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbreaking honesty, Alfian Sa’at writ...
View full detailsWhat if you could dream up any building you like? What would it be? How would constructing it change our lives? A shopping mall self-destructs, and...
View full detailsWe love Asian folklore. We grew up listening to Chinese legends, Arab fairy tales, Malay ghost stories and Indian sacred epics, and their fabulous ...
View full detailsIn this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainabili...
View full detailsAfraid of poetry? Unable to make sense of a poem, let alone enjoy it? Having trouble discussing the web of meanings within a poem or, worse, writin...
View full detailsWhat do we expect of an author who is unapologetically female? What do we expect of consuming art in general? Should a work be easy, should a work ...
View full detailsGiving Ground refers to an act of yielding, or compromise—an active passivity, not unlike the act of writing itself. In his third collection, Theop...
View full detailsGrowing 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...
View full detailsHeartland explores the paradox of rootedness and rootlessness facing Singaporeans born after the Japanese Occupation. Wing, who has just been consc...
View full detailsEndangered tigers connecting telepathically through time-travel; a guard's ethical dilemma at a history museum; a slaughterhouse worker's memories ...
View full detailsOften an unnoticed caress on our faces, winds are voiceless and formless. How do we interpret them? What mysteries can we find in the whispers of w...
View full detailsSingapore is a mythic nation, where our ‘reality’ and ‘common sense’ are conditioned by a group of influential myths. Our main myths are examined i...
View full detailstranslated by Nazry Bahrawi A rainbow is glimpsed in the enveloping darkness of Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s stories. Precious because it is mostly fleet...
View full detailsMalay Sketches is a collection of stories that borrows its name from a book of anecdotes by colonial governor Frank Swettenham, describing Malay li...
View full detailsMe migrantBeyond bordersMislaying smilesDawn to dusk then dawn again Me Migrant features the poems of Md Mukul Hossine – poems originally written i...
View full detailstranslated by Tan Dan Feng Featuring new translations of previously untranslated Chinese short stories, Memorandum maps out seven decades of Sinoph...
View full details‘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...
View full detailsparsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poems in English on the other. Conven...
View full detailsPeninsular, Daren Shiau's second book, is built around the inescapable motif of islands and archipelagos. The collection redeems as it explores ide...
View full detailsPHEDRAby Euginia Tanpublished by Ethos Books * Phedra is a poetry collection of re-interpreted mythology – with an emphasis on female identity – w...
View full detailsWe are currently accepting pre-orders for this title. Orders of this title are expected to be fulfilled by early-February 2021. Click here to find ...
View full detailsRed Pulse II is a rich chronicle illuminating the growth of twenty-two young Singapore poets, who, as a community, write to shape and order private...
View full detailsThe Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born within the territory of a country to be conferred citi...
View full detailsThe sequel to The Law of Second Marriages, the best-selling and critically acclaimed poetry book by Christine. With "terrifying sparseness and inte...
View full detailsOut of the mundane, a flash of lyrical. From the profane, a hint of sublime. And always, the inventive wordplay that cuts through the skin of langu...
View full detailsThis anthology of short fiction presents six distinct electrifying voices from Singapore: Alfian bin Sa’at, Wena Poon, Jeffrey Lim, Tan Mei Ching, ...
View full details"What is Singapore’s Next Big Thing?" An intellectual salvo from young and passionate Singaporeans inhabiting different slices of Singapore society...
View full detailsAn annual publication, The Birthday Book examines emerging challenges and opportunities for Singapore, based on a selected prompt. The number of wr...
View full detailsWhen 7-year-old Anna told a lie to get out of trouble, she didn’t expect her older sister to go missing. Faced with her mother’s wrath and riddled ...
View full detailsThe captain of the Titanic went down with his ship on 15 April, 1912. But thoughts have power, and those who endure in the stories of the living ar...
View full detailsThe 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...
View full detailsThe 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 ...
View full detailsWhat happens when an entire community is moved? Dakota Crescent was one of Singapore's oldest public housing estates and a rental flat neighbourho...
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