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		Tan Jee Say A Nation Awakes: Frontline Reflections About the Book Few 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 the story of extraordinary men and women who fought Singapore's 2011 General Election in May and the Presidential Election in August. Together with their loyal and dedicated supporters, they displayed great courage and conviction, and in so doing changed the political landscape in Singapore forever... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Alvin Pang Moving Words 2011: A Poetry Anthology About the Book This anthology was curated from almost 2,000 poems submitted to an open poetry competition as part of the Moving Words 2011 initiative. Some of these poems were also featured on the SMRT train network. The anthology was conceived to share some of the many gems that were contributed by Singaporeans and is an introduction to contemporary Singaporean verse written by aspiring poets, young and old... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Damon Chua Traveler's Tale and Other Poems About the Book Spanning time, geography and metaphysics, Traveler’s Tale and Other Poems is a personal journey that is at once unique and universal. From a Singaporean childhood, through military service, to a life abroad, these poems open a window to an existence viscerally connected to nature and the world at large ... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Choo Heng Thong The Accidental Entrepreneur: Life and Reflections of Choo Heng Thong About the Book Born in the post-war baby boom years in Malaya, Choo Heng Thong rose from his humble beginnings in Johor Bahru to become an entrepreneur in the heady days of Singapore’s industrialisation in the 1970s...Heng Thong’s initial idea ended up touching the lives of thousands. Many ingredients go into making success. What worked for him?” >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Dr Dennis Yeo Telltale 11 Stories \| A Study Companion About the Book Besides their rich heritage, canonical texts are selected for study because of the wealth of available critical study and research materials. Telltale: Eleven Stories, however, being a newly prescribed O-level Singaporean text, does not enjoy such an advantage. This Study Companion attempts to address the gap... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Tammy L Wong 'A' is for Achar, 'L' is for Love About the Book As her ninety-four-year-old Popo’s health fails, Tammy finds herself returning to her grandmother’s kitchen in search of the Peranakan foods of her childhood... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Clive En-Kai Aporia About the Book “In the midway of this mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct..." When Professor K was asked to attend a conference in Greece, he did not expect the impending journey to unravel the life he shared with J; forcing him to confront the regrets of his past.... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Leonard Ng This Mortal World About the Book Gods, animals, and men walk together in the landscape of these poems, sometimes aware of each other, sometimes not. A man and a hawk lean over a railing looking out at the world below... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Robert Yeo Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1940-75 About the Book Routes 1940-75 is both a personal and public memoir; it is personal as it records part of Robert Yeo’s life for the first thirty-five years, and it is public as it follows his response to some of the tumultuous events of the period at the local, regional and international levels... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Kevin YL Tan, Terence Lee Voting In Change: Politics of Singapore’s 2011 General Election About the Book Singapore’s 2011 general election will go down in history as its most significant since independence. This volume offers a snapshot of the heady days leading up to Polling Day on 7 May 2011... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Eric Tinsay Valles A World In Transit About the Book The world is on the move. As a result, people everywhere are increasingly caught in hybridity or cultural mixing even as they assert their individuality. Indeed, migrants, the subject of many of Eric Tinsay Valles’s poems, yearn especially for an escape or exile from the messy present ... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Kevin YL Tan Spaces of the Dead: A Case from the Living About the Book Spaces of the Dead: A Case from the Living brings together various authors concerned with the need for conservation of cemeteries in Singapore. This book showcases cemeteries as spaces of historical, architectural and social merit through the writings and photo-journals of the authors... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Margaret Leong The Ice Ball Man and Other Poems About the Book This edition of Margaret Leong’s poetry aims at issuing a selection of poems to delight and to instruct—as all art must do—chiefly children, and also readers of all ages who enjoy the pleasures of formal verse and the images of a Singapore island from a past that is still visible in its landscapes, flora, fauna, and multicultural vibrancy... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Theophilus Kwek They Speak Only Our Mother Tongue About the Book “What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?” asks Lewis Carroll’s Alice. Perhaps there isn’t any. But within this slim poetry volume, Theophilus Kwek has painted the images and articulated the exchanges that shape his landscape, family and self – an open invitation to partake, with him, in a feast of the soul and for the senses... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		T.K. Sabapathy Teo Eng Seng. Art and Thoughts About the Book Teo Eng Seng. Art and Thoughts is the first detailed, historical study of this artist by the renowned art historian T.K.Sabapathy. It spans more than fifty years of continuous creative activity, from the mid-1950s until the present... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Gwee Li Sui (editor) Man/Born/Free: Writings on the Human Spirit from Singapore About the Book This literary anthology – centred on the travails of the human spirit – is like none other published in Singapore. It testifies to the social reflections of generations of Singaporean writers and their inquiries into issues of freedom, equality, humanity, and hope.. >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Featuring poems of Edwin Thumboo Flow Across Our Ocean: Singapore and South Africa About the Book There are two works here: a new and original poem by Edwin Thumboo and the script for Selamat, a new music-theatre work composed by Iskandar Ismail, directed by Jeremiah Choy and set to a text that features the poetry of Edwin Thumboo... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Alfian Sa'at Collected Plays Two by Alfian Sa'at About the Book 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 and carnivalesque Dreamplay, history is turned upside-down as a goddess travels ... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Ng Yi-Sheng, Dominic Chua, Irene Oh, Jasmine Seah A Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose About the Book A Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose - is Singapore's first anthology of writers who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer. It's the combined work of 35 authors, translators ... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Yeng Pway Ngon Poems 1 (Rebellion) About the Book Poems 1 [Rebellion] is a selection of Yeng Pway Ngon’s works published between 1967 and 1970, a period in which his poetry openly confronts issues of urban modernity, consumerism ... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Chandran Nair Reaching for Stones: Collected Poems (1963 - 2009) About the Book Chandran Nair’s poetry has been described as impressing with its “versatility and hard brilliance of style” as well as providing an important study of how growing up in Singapore with an English education and Chinese, Indian and Malay influences ... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Gwee Li Sui Telltale: 11 Stories About the Book This anthology of short fiction presents six distinct electrifying voices from Singapore: Alfian bin Sa’at, Wena Poon, Jeffrey Lim, Tan Mei Ching, Claire Tham, and Dave Chua. The modern tales they tell are... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Edwin Thumboo & WORDS: Poems Singapore and Beyond About the Book Anthologies are well-established institutions. They are especially useful in promoting interest in poetry. &Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond attempts to do so through a fresh approach. First, it provides a selection of Singapore poems in English, arranged in four broad sections: Identity, Homeland, Living, Words... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Loh Kah Seng & Liew Kai Khiun The Makers & Keepers of Singapore History About the Book In exploring the past, researchers labour in the present: to locate the archival document which is located somewhere behind a gate with its keeper; or to find that elusive participant who will throw light on a gap in our knowledge, and convince them to speak... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Teo Soh Lung Beyond the Blue Gate: Recollections of a Political Prisoner About the Book This is a moving and detailed account of the author's tribulations while under detention without trial.... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
		Alfian Sa’at Collected Plays One About the Book 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 relations, and the resistance of individuals against authoritarian systems.... >> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE >> DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE