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This 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 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 detailsThis collection contains the latest works from Cultural Medallion recipient Prof Edwin Thumboo. Of note are the poems based on biblical characters,...
View full detailsWelcome to ABC Kiam Chye Char Loti. For this edition, we've invited the usual suspects to bring you through the quirks of our "national language" i...
View full detailsAfterimage: an image that continues to appear even after the original has ceased. Werner Kho’s debut poetry collection is both personal and yet uni...
View full detailsIllustrated by Muhammad Noh Arjuna In the 1800s, a girl named Agnes Joaquim was passionate about plants. She learned to grow cool-weather European ...
View full detailsThis new poetry collection stands as a record of a friendship between two artists formed in the shadow of illness and mortality. Using the renga an...
View full detailsIn a world inundated by all kinds of texts that can be scanned almost as soon as they’re produced, and that as quickly shimmer away into oblivion, ...
View full detailsThis delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie "Aunty" Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home-cooking...
View full detailsNine years after his last volume of poetry, Felix Cheong makes a comeback - this time, a collection of poetic outtakes and more recent writings. B...
View full detailsBalik Kampung 2A: People and Places presents eleven tales by authors ho have lived in the respective neighbourhoods for at least ten years. What wa...
View full detailsThe day nine-year-old San San and her twelve-year-old brother, Ah Liam, discover their grandmother taking a hammer to a framed portrait of Chairman...
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View full detailsLim Siong Guan, Singapore's former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 4th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Si...
View full detailsWhat happens when an adoring young bride is met on the doorstep of her new home by her husband s former mistress Frank, Rose and Nony are about to ...
View full detailsWith crayons and stained paper, artist Ho Chee Lick wanders around neighbourhoods in Singapore observing, perceiving, looking for that “something”:...
View full detailsAt 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 ...
View full detailsfootnotes on falling is a collection of 44 poems about sub-optimal life choices. the poems constantly laugh at themselves because they are polite, ...
View full detailsThis is spoken word. This will make you feel things. This is a poet illustrating her own book. This is in alien language. This is an angry bedtime ...
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 details"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...
View full details"The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears or the ocean." Isak Dinesen This is one of my favourite quotes, and it pretty much sums up the e...
View full detailsOn 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...
View full detailsToday is National Day. It is also Cheryl Dada’s birthday. As Elderflower Home prepares for the celebration, Cheryl Dada too gets ready for her part...
View full detailsLanguage, art, religion, disaster, death, murder, adultery, and love, all come under the poet's attention as he continues to mine the rewarding co...
View full detailsLion dancers are the new sensations in Asia, and none are as charming or handsome as US import Ricky Ang. But while the rest of the Leopop boys asp...
View full detailsA man learns that all the animals at the Zoo are robots. A secret terminal in Changi Airport caters to the gods. A prince falls in love with a croc...
View full detailsThis final double-sized issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Korea and Viet...
View full detailsThe world around you can appear bigger than it really is if you're seven going on eight. Or maybe, it just is! Join Shuwen and his friends as they ...
View full detailsWhen parkour champion Maxine Schooling wakes from a three-year coma, she has no memory of how her parents and little brother were killed the night ...
View full detailsFigures from Greek mythology take up residence in contemporary Singapore in this collection of stories that explores the pain and dilemma of modern...
View full detailsMy Lot is a Sky is an anthology of poetry by Asian women. Named after a poem by Forough Farrokhzad, an influential Iranian writer and filmmaker, th...
View full detailsIt is 1944 in India and Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to become an engineer, but her parents want a different life for her. As she acce...
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 detailsCyril Wong's eighth collection hurls the reader into a private dream world; these dreams explore the finitude of the self, recasting the poet's pas...
View full detailsPantomime is a homily for the weary social actor, seeking a place of shelter. These poems meander through the performative in society, sieving thro...
View full detailsWriter and artist Shubigi Rao has been working on 'Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book', a ten-year long film, book, visual art, and exhau...
View full detailsSet in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan's dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man's path to self-discovery in the wa...
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 detailsPrologue: translating frustrations, injustice & heartache into productivity. discussing how our surroundings and mood gel with the art we creat...
View full detailsillustrated by Elvin Ching In Secrets of Singapore: Botanic Gardens, Danger Dan and Gadget Girl go out on a limb to uproot the Singapore Botanic Ga...
View full detailsIllustrated by Drewscape The Supper Club is attending the San Diego Comic-con when some experimental technology is stolen by a real-life superhero ...
View full detailsIllustrated by Drewscape In Sherlock Sam and the Mysterious Mastermind in Seoul, the Supper Club must chase their new adversary to South Korea wher...
View full detailsSingapore Poetry Writing Month, or as we affectionately call it, SingPoWriMo. Write one poem a day for thirty days in the cruel month of April: tha...
View full detailsThe Sisters Islands and Pulau Senang: two satellite islands off the coast of Singapore, small but rich in story. This volume brings together two re...
View full detailsSofia is an ordinary schoolgirl living in a future Singapore where the population is divided into three social strata. When she inadvertently unloc...
View full detailsFalse starts, chance encounters, careless mistakes, strokes of luck: Are we the sum of our actions, or of our possibilities? Somewhere Else, Anothe...
View full detailssonnets from the singlish is a collection of 88 poems on love, language and the pursuit of laughter. the poems are loosely translated from the engl...
View full detailsGretchen Lin leaves her heart (or at least her floundering marriage) in San Francisco, moves back to her childhood home in Singapore and finds hers...
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