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Description Praise About the Editors This is the historical memoir of Dr Poh Soo Kai, a man of medicine and a founder member of the People’s A...

Description About the Author Often an unnoticed caress on our faces, winds are voiceless and formless. How do we interpret them? What mysteries...

Description Praise About the Author Longlisted for the 2013 Frank O'connor International Short Story Award 3,000 people go missing every year i...

Description About the Author Wong May’s poems are concerned with the ultimate loneliness, the inarticulateness and the inability to communicate...

This 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...

Description Praise About the Author Winner of Best Fiction Title for Singapore Book Awards (2016) Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for...

Description About the Author He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you have already ...

Description About the Author The captain of the Titanic went down with his ship on 15 April, 1912. But thoughts have power, and those who endur...

Alfian 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...

Description About the Author In Johnny Jon Jon’s plays, seemingly ordinary events are turned into hauntingly profound exchanges when the indiv...

Description Praise About the Author What does it mean to be Malay in the 21st century? This question is especially relevant in a country like M...

Description About the Author GE2020: an election that should not be forgotten for yielding startling outcomes, including the appointment of the...

Description About the Author This debut collection by Yeo Wei Wei explores the realms between private selves, past and present, through vivid a...

Description About the Author Giving Alms gifts us three short stories based on the narratives of the people of Myanmar. Carefully revealing the...

Noelle Q. de Jesus’ collection of short stories is a striking debut of cultural exchanges and foreign tongues: stories that trace and sustain the c...

Description About the Author parsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poem...

Description Praise About the Author & Translator Winner of the July 2024 PEN Translates award From 1976 to 1989, Hai Fan was part of the gu...

Description Praise About the Author There are obscure emotions that reside in every one of us, where language cannot reach, because its waters ...

Description Praise About the Author A History of Amnesia is listed in the notable books list by the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Award (administer...

How do we understand the history and landscape of our country? In this bicentennial year, Contour charts a lyric cartography of Singapore, taking i...

Description Praise About the Editors Featuring new translations of previously untranslated Chinese shortstories, Memorandum maps out seven deca...

Description About the Authors With increased global mobility of people, the phrase “go home” has been commonly used against those who are deeme...

Description Praise About the Author & Editor Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Gwee Li Sui A Walk With My Pig is Mervin Mirapuri’s u...

In the electrifying months leading up to the watershed 2011 General Elections and in the tumultuous months after, playwright Alfian Sa’at interview...

Advocacy is a tricky pursuit in Singapore. Your motives can be questioned, your activities monitored, and your scope for action limited.  Despite 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...

This extraordinary volume provides unexpectedly heart-warming and heart-breaking insights into the interior lives and thoughts of SMU business grad...

Description About the Author Vital Possessions by Marc Nair contemplates how city-dwellers negotiate their uneasy relationship with nature in a...

Description About the Authors Khairat Kita documents the last few remaining Malay/Muslim Mutual Benefit Organisations (MMBOs) providing aid an...

A direct descendant of Chew Joo Chiat, Philip Chew was born in 1935 and is a pioneer of Singapore in his own way. A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat t...

Description Praise About the Author Police sergeant Hafiz lies in a coma after a gunshot to the head. The investigation by Internal Affairs unc...

Description About the Author The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born within the territory ...

Description About the Author Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems brings together the best of ten years of Felix Cheong's poetry, as well as...

What can we recover after a life passes on? A novel about love, forgetting and remembering. Pansy Lim, a Peranakan  girl,  was brought up in a seas...

Description Praise About the Author We Saw Mountains gathers nine stories of human and non-human daring, where quotidian life is cracked open t...

Description Contributors About the Editors Rhyme is Shakespeare. Rhythm is rap. Sing Lit is free verse. If you’ve ever had such thoughts, let t...

The sequel to The Law of Second Marriages, the best-selling and critically acclaimed poetry book by Christine. With "terrifying sparseness and inte...

We love Asian folklore. We grew up listening to Chinese legends, Arab fairy tales, Malay ghost stories and Indian sacred epics, and their fabulous ...

Description Praise About the Author “Now you are gone and for a while my womb lost its voice and forgot how to sing. / What is a song but a dau...

Description Praise About the Editors With a foreword by Professor Dennis Haskell and afterword by Tay Kheng Soon There is no other city quite l...

Singapore's history has been told many times but it has usually been framed by men and the stories are mostly of and about men. This book of memori...

Description About the Author This collection contains the latest works from Cultural Medallion recipient Prof Edwin Thumboo. Of note are the po...

For Singaporeans, the year 2015 will be remembered for its grand celebrations of the nation’s 50th year of independence (SG50), as well as the demi...

Description Praise About the Author Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016, Non-Fiction Can a life weave along through the same notes an...

Praise About the Author “One of Singapore’s most visible poets, Pang grows with each book. In his poems we hear a voice unhurried, confident, a...

Description About the Author What has Gus been up to? Our beloved tiger is back in this prequel to Afternoon Tea at Raffles Hotel. This time Gu...

Description Praise About the Author Giving Ground refers to an act of yielding, or compromise—an active passivity, not unlike the act of writin...

Description Praise About the Author Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1940-75 is both a personal and public memoir; it is personal as it records par...