
A Philosopher's Madness
This 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 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 detailsKong jiao wei , Hokkien, means “speaking bird language.” It is a cock-and-bull story, a flight of fancy and, incidentally , the perfect phrase to d...
View full detailsUncle: we all know him. This is the man who picks his nose on the bus, who will fight for his country and fight you to do it his way. He will shout...
View full detailsMy name is Benjamin Hong, aged 8, height 90cm, and studying at Loyang Primary School. Mummy said we are going to Bedok Reservoir, and I changed out...
View full detailsCeriph is an independently run, quarterly book publication in Singapore. We seek to share Singaporean creative work in the form of prose, poetry, s...
View full detailsDiving into the ambivalences and contradictions that are as characteristic of a family as her triumphs, Jerrold Yam’s rousing debut poetry collecti...
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 detailsDr Chee Soon Juan, Singaporean neuropsychologist and secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party, sets out his political ideas and his expe...
View full detailsThe maestro of political plays is back and his latest offering in a decade, Fear of Writing, is a groundbreaking commentary with its finger on the ...
View full detailsWhat happens when a country splits apart? Forty-five years ago, Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed alo...
View full detailstranslated by A.R. Venkatachalapathy War is looming when Anbarasan arrives in Singapore from Tamil Nadu in the 1940s. Stirred by charismatic Indian...
View full detailsA good year. The final term is here. Long school holidays, fun camping trips and Christmas presents are now finally within reach! But that’s not al...
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 detailsThe swinging 1960s. A nightclub in Singapore. A one night stand that turns into true love. Or not? In Mimi Fan, Singapore playwright Lim Chor Pee w...
View full detailsA man stabs an MP at a Meet-the-People Session. But this is not their story. It is the story of the man’s girlfriend, an Indonesian maid who wants ...
View full detailsIn November 2012, local theatre company The Necessary Stage launched Plays for Schools, the fourth collection of plays by the award-winning local p...
View full detailsFirst published in 1978 by Pan Pacific Book Distributors, Ricky Star is about a man who strives for career and financial success at the expense of ...
View full detailsCyril Wong’s prose poems remark, instruct, exclaim and curse at a world long settled into its desire-ridden forms. These protracted sentences both ...
View full detailsIn March 2009, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was briefly taken over by a Christian faction. Their coup was overturned wi...
View full detailsThe Billion Shop was a shop near my office that sold paper money and other artefacts for ethnic Chinese people to burn as offerings to their dead. ...
View full detailsThe Complete Works of Kuo Pao Kun Volume 4 - Plays in English had collected and edited both published and previously unpublished texts written in E...
View full detailsVolume 9 contains photos and scanned images of letters and documents. Bilingual in Chinese and English. Paperback: 207 PagesProduct Dimensions: 178...
View full detailstranslated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin In this Singapore Literature Prize-winning collection of stories, an aging Japanese ex-soldie...
View full detailsIn 1819, when Sir Stamford Raffles founded Singapore, he was accompanied by two French naturalists. Ever since, French missionaries, merchants, pla...
View full detailsAlfian Sa’at’s first unpublished collection of writings composed when he was 22, it was first distributed unofficially to selected friends and coll...
View full detailsThe book, using a small group of left-wing student activists as a prism, explores the complex politics that underpinned the making of nation-states...
View full detailsCyril Wong’s latest collection of poems brings into play his background in music. Reminiscent of a concerto, an orchestra is invoked by poems that ...
View full detailsThe hospital air conditioner is in need of service again. 4 bodies awaiting identification and autopsy, wake up at the morgue, in anticipation of t...
View full detailsIn Transparent Strangers, the city is more than steel and glass: it is also a landscape where emotion is as much architecture as it is part of huma...
View full detailsA ghost steps out of its body after a suicide and looks back at it in wonder. The poet wonders at his own existence and struggles between actual li...
View full detailsThis is the first volume in a series of play collections published by Checkpoint Theatre that showcase the exciting work of a new generation of Sin...
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