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& Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond

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  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...

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(Imperfect) A Crackle of Flames, A Circle of Rainbow

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(Imperfect) From Walden to Woodlands: An Anthology of Nature Poems

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(Imperfect) Get Lucky: An Anthology of Philippine and Singapore Writings

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(Imperfect) In the Space of A Poem: Vol. 2 | 一首诗的时间: 第二辑

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(Imperfect) Remains: A Singapore Journey

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(Imperfect) The Impermanence of Lilies

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(Imperfect) The Man With A Mission

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(Imperfect) Two Baby Hands

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 Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A… 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...

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2719

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  2719 presents a history of the future. It is a creative prognosis that charts how Singapore will develop for the next seven hundred years. Moments in the island’s real history will reverberate th...

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  A HERO SETS SAIL. AN ISLAND IS FOUND. A NATION IS BORN. Early thirteenth century CE. The Srivijaya Empire, considered to be one of the world's greatest maritime forces, has been abruptly left po...

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A Bad Girl's Book of Animals

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From the Winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize 2022 Available in paperback and e-book* format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each purchase of a paperback....

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A Flying Crystal

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A Flying Crystal, Lin Gao’s first poetry book, collects the first blushes of language in its encounters with emotions. Poetic form and emotional resonance come together as a flying crystal that da...

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A Gathering of Themes

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry 2020This collection contains Prof Thumboo’s latest works. Especially interesting are the poems based on biblical characters, something ver...

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A Guide to the Employment Act and Its Practical Applications

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by Martin Gabriel Please check out the revised edition of this book: A Guide to the Employment Act and Its Related Legislations.  Synopsis This book discusses various key clauses of the EA and the...

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A Guide to the Employment Act and Its Related Legislations (2nd Edition)

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  This book examines key clauses of the Employment Act and its related legislations. Written in clear and concise language, this book breaks down and interprets legal jargon for the laymen and allo...

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A History of Amnesia

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Unapologetic, unafraid and unyielding, Alfian’s second collection of verse delves in greater depth the concerns in his first volume and moves into reclaiming our collective history and memory. In m...

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A Philosopher's Madness

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  This is a personal and philosophical account of schizophrenia that aims to raise awareness of mental health issues. The personal aspect of the book reveals the gritty reality of what it is like t...

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A Place For Us

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 Disability is neither strange nor distant. Part autobiography, part reflections of social advocate Cassandra Chiu’s experiences as a person living with visual impairment, A Place For Us is the sto...

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A Quest for Freedom

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A Quest for Freedom – freedom from poverty, freedom to learn, freedom to live – without fear or favour. This has been the quest of Gopalan Raman, known to most of his friends and fellows in the le...

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a tiny space

“I stand and face the sea,as the waves come crashing to the shore, the music of the sea is thunderous and loud.Yet I am unafraid, I chase the waves, I run about,excited but calm, I want to explore,...

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A Walk With My Pig

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Published by: Pagesetters Services  Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Gwee Li Sui A Walk with My Pig is Mervin Mirapuri’s unfinished magnum opus, seen for the first time. He composed this po...

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A Watershed Election (新加坡政治的分水岭: 林宝音政论文选)

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A Watershed Election (新加坡政治的分水岭: 林宝音政论文选)

  This title is the Chinese translation of “A Watershed Election” by Catherine Lim. 2011大选是新加坡政治生态的分水岭。此届大选，反对党有好多个候选人一口气中选进入国 会，可以说 没有先例的事。2015大选又是一次分水岭。这回近70%大多数选票投给了行动党，由上回近60%得票率提升上来。众多人群出席反对党举...

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A World In Transit

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  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 ...

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After The Fall: Dirges Among Ruins

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After The Fall: Dirges Among Ruins

  This collection explores the creative space of poetry as a means to unravel feelings evoked by the violence of war or by everyday traumatic events. One may come to terms with uncomfortable, inclu...

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After the Inquiry

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After the Inquiry

 Police sergeant Hafiz lies in a coma after a gunshot to the head. The investigation by Internal Affairs uncovered a game of Russian roulette gone wrong, and the case is now closed. But there are ...

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Ah... The Fragrance of Durians

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Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited

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Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited

 "Think of Singapore instead as the Air-Conditioned Nation—a society with a unique blend of comfort and central control, where people have mastered their environment, but at the cost of individual...

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Ars Poetica for the Day

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Lim’s poems are penetrating accounts of a life lived as a poet devoted to her art. View sample pages.

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Babel Via Negativa

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• Babel Via Negativa was the winner for the 2nd Annual USA Regional Excellence Book Awards, 2016 (Spirituality category) for Northeast region • Winner of Benjamin Franklin Book Awards Babel Via Neg...

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Belfast

  “He drew over his mistakes when he was small, then erased them and tried again when he was a little older. In time he came to doubt what he did, to make harsh judgements, but he survived this and...

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Beyond The Village Gate

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Beyond The Village Gate

 Myths of the mountains and their spirits pervade stories of Shi Ying’s mysterious origins. Abandoned to die but saved by a villager, Shi Ying is named the “lost child” and taken into a family of f...

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Bite Harder: Open Letters & Close Readings

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Bite Harder: Open Letters & Close Readings

Fifteen years ago, Koh Jee Leong left a promising career in Singapore’s Education Service in order to become a poet in New York City. The change was transformative. Bite Harder: Open Letters and Cl...

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Bitter Punch

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Bitter Punch

  Shortlisted for the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize  Bitter Punch is Loh Guan Liang’s second collection of poetry. With a wry eye for the everyday and its often forgotten characters, Loh explores...

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Blood Collected Stories

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Blood Collected Stories

Winner of the 2016 Indie Book Awards (Short Stories) Noelle Q. de Jesus’ collection of short stories is a striking debut of cultural exchanges and foreign tongues: stories that trace and sustain th...

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Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore

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Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore

Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore responds to, expands on and questions what we think we know about the lived experiences of minority-raced people in Singapore. Inspired by Brown I...

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Buy My Beloved Country

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Buy My Beloved Country

  Chinese naval vessels threaten Philippine patrol boats off the shores of the Philippines… China claims sovereignty over the Spratleys in the South China Sea... China unilaterally establishes an E...

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catskull

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catskull

Available in paperback and e-book format. Purchase the paperback and get 50% off the e-book! Ram has been ignored and dismissed his entire life. His parents patronise him, his older brother belitt...

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Changes and Chances

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Changes and Chances

  Uncompromising yet accessible, the six sequences in Changes and Chances explore love, sorrow, time, nature, and humanity. By turns passionate, hermetic, and heartbreaking, they simultaneously end...

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Cherry Days

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A coming-of-age story set in 1950s Singapore, written with photorealistic clarity. Skinny and his friends grow up in a self-sufficient kampong along an unnamed road. Reading about their lives, a di...

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Children of Las Vegas

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Children of Las Vegas

“People come to Vegas to blow off steam and then go. But I’m stuck here. When I see the city lights I think of all the parts they don’t shine on. I feel like I’m living there, in those parts. The s...

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City Of Rain

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City Of Rain

  “One of Singapore’s most visible poets, Pang grows with each book. In his poems we hear a voice unhurried, confident, and capable of carrying diverse humors, and read a rhetoric shaded to ironies...

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Coastlands

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Coastlands

 Tell me again where home is, where inhabit all the holy hours, where someday you will find me. - from "Time Lapse" Coastlands is Aaron Lee's third collection of poetry. Whether in a small town or ...

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Collected Plays One

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 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 again...

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Collected Plays Three

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  Alfian Sa’at explores the Malay identity and racial relations in this third volume of the Collected Plays series. This volume collects plays written and staged in Malay, and translated to English...

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Collected Plays Two

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  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 ...

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Common Life: Drawings and Poems

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Common Life: Drawings and Poems

“Most things in the world around us have poems hidden in them waiting to be revealed if we have the will to pay attention and see them with the heart.” — Anne Lee Tzu Pheng With crayons and stained...

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Contour: A Lyric Cartography of Singapore

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Contour: A Lyric Cartography of Singapore

  How do we understand the history and landscape of our country? In this bicentennial year, Contour charts a lyric cartography of Singapore, taking in events from the past seven hundred years while...

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Cooling-Off Day

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Cooling-Off Day

 • Cooling-Off Day is the Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards 2012 nominee for: Production of the Year, Best Original Script, Best Director, Best Ensemble In the electrifying months leading up to th...

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Cordelia

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Cordelia

  • Cordelia was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2014 (English Poetry Category). Cordelia, Grace Chia’s second poetry collection, excavates from the imagery of life, art and modernit...

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Corridor: 12 Short Stories

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 Corridor is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbreaking honesty, Alfian Sa’at writes about HDB dwellers – students, housewives and ...

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Crossing Distance

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Crossing Distance

  A child’s afternoon of play, a teenager’s notion of pain, one’s understanding of freedom, another’s glimpse of mortality, a young woman’s encounter with her cultural roots, and the individual wor...

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Days of Being Wild: GE2006 Walking the Line with the Opposition

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Days of Being Wild: GE2006 Walking the Line with the Opposition

  Days of Being Wild records with words and images, the heady days of GE2006. It reflects the nine days when Singaporeans throw off the visage of their normally reticent selves. They clamber over d...

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Do You Live In?

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Do You Live In?

  These poems are related to Lim’s travels, and her having lived in various lands, including USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. View sample pages.

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Dream Storeys

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Dream Storeys

  What 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 a single mother vanishes. A tree house for orph...

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Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

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Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant plac...

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Enjoying Common Life: A Companion

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Two educators, one also a poet, the other also an artist, put together their talents to produce Common Life: Drawings and Poems.  Scenes from everyday life at housing estates and along the streets ...

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Equatorial Sunshine

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Equatorial Sunshine

  What can Singapore's weather offer? More than a monochrome of rain and shine, as these poems show. Travelling the shifting patterns of youthful love and loss, they take us into sun, shade, shower...

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From one reader to another, we’re asking for your help to keep independent publishing alive by making a small contribution to support our work. Your material support will help us ride through this ...

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Faith In Architecture

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Faith In Architecture

“This book you are holding is designed to take you on a sacred journey through its pages. In fact, it is a journey that all of us take daily, just by walking along the streets of Singapore.” Often ...

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Farquhar

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Farquhar

  Singaporeans are familiar with the popular mythos of Sir Stamford Raffles, sole and exclusive founder of modern Singapore, who called a bustling port into being with his mighty hand, where only a...

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First Fires

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First Fires

  Minutes after birth you held my head to your lips and whispered, “Difficulties are fires.” It came unbidden, unplanned. Your mother’s voice speaking through you. Ma would have been horrified. She...

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Floating Clouds Beyond The Elastic Limit

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Floating Clouds Beyond The Elastic Limit

Insisting on collective and common memories, Floating Clouds Beyond the Elastic Limit champions a new national literature grounded in the histories of a restless tribe, we who have found a home aw...

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Found Texts of the AAI Anon, Circa 3119: Eight Lyric Essays

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Found Texts of the AAI Anon, Circa 3119: Eight Lyric Essays

  Within this book are eight found texts written over the span of a millennium, discovered circa 3119 AD. These are epistolary meditations unearthed, attributed to AAI Anon, an advanced artificial ...

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Fried Eggs

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This is a set of books used for shared reading in preschools. There is humour to enliven the course of teaching children to read as the stay-home father teases his son, allowing the boy to teach hi...

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GAZE BACK

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Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 2020)   What 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 ...

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Giving Alms

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  “Karma has failed us,” my husband whispered into our dark bedroom. With his hand over his mouth, he stopped himself from wailing. What an incredibly loud noise sorrow makes when muffled, a noise ...

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Giving Ground

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 Giving Ground refers to an act of yielding, or compromise—an active passivity, not unlike the act of writing itself. In his third collection, Theophilus Kwek enters and examines the unfamiliar, gi...

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Goodbye My Kampong! Potong Pasir, 1966 to 1975

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Goodbye My Kampong! Potong Pasir, 1966 to 1975

  Sequel to Josephine Chia’s 2014 Singapore Literature prize-winning book, Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965. Kampong life in Singapore did not end in 1965 with her...

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Growing Up in Kampong Potong Pasir

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  It is 1958 and Josephine is staring at a Milo tin. She cannot make sense of the letters! To learn how to read, she needs to sell nasi lemak made by her loving mother to her neighbours in Kampon...

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Growing Up Perempuan

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  Growing 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 during childbirth you become a vampiric ghost and i...

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Heartland (new edition)

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Heartland (new edition)

  Hailed as “the definitive Singaporean novel”, this new edition of Heartland is accompanied by a new preface by author Daren Shiau and a publisher’s foreword that contextualises the novel’s imprin...

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Here and Beyond: 12 Stories

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View sample pages. Here and Beyond: 12 Stories is a prescribed Cambridge GCE O-Level Literature text. This is an anthology of twelve stories from twelve unique Singaporean voices: S. Rajaratnam, Ye...

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Hook and Eye: Stories from the Margins

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“Each story invites readers to enter into the world of marginal yet strangely familiar figures, to explore the possibilities of empathy, and thus to see familiar landscapes in a new light.” —Philip...

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How We Live Now: A Study Companion

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How We Live Now: A Study Companion presents a scaffolded, detail-oriented approach to guide readers in the study of the short story anthology How We Live Now: Stories of Daily Living. For every sto...

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How We Live Now: Stories of Daily Living

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How We Live Now offers a multi-faceted, multi-voiced view of contemporary life in Singapore: its comforts and conflicts, personal tragedies and social tensions, and also opportunities for joy, hope...

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I Found A Bone and Other Poems

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I Found A Bone and Other Poems is a historically significant collection of poetry by Teo Kah Leng: an educator whose love for art and literature preceded his name. He served as teacher, principal, ...

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I Watch The Stars Go Out

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  Felix Cheong’s second collection of poetry extends the themes and concerns of his first book, Temptation and Other Poems. At its heart is the image of a collapsing star that explodes in a fury of...

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In This Desert, There Were Seeds

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Read an excerpt → Endangered tigers connecting telepathically through time-travel; a guard’s ethical dilemma at a history museum; a slaughterhouse worker’s memories of his dead wife; a monochrome t...

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Interpreter of Winds

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  Often 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 winds? From a Dutch occupied Java where a witch w...

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Island of Silence

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 • Winner of the China Times Million Yuan Literary Prize for the Novel (Jury Prize, 1994) Island of Silence is a mesmerising psychological portrait of evasion. Chen-mian, a young Taiwanese woman wi...

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Kepulauan: A Collection of Poems

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  Kepulauan: A Collection of Poems is a refreshing anthology capturing the spirit of diversity in an archipelago of poetic expression. Birthed from the poetry workshops in Nanyang Technological Uni...

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Khairat Kita: A History of Malay/Muslim Mutual Aid in Singapore

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Khairat Kita: A History of Malay/Muslim Mutual Aid in Singapore

A collection of interviews, photographs, essays and personal reflections, Khairat Kita is a project documenting the last few remaining Malay/Muslim Mutual Benefit Organisations (MMBOs) providing ai...

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Lancing Girls of a Happy World

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Lancing Girls of a Happy World

  “Dancing was fun; it didn't seem like a job but a party every day.” “They practised dancing seriously; it was their life!” “It is an ugly profession; to prostitute oneself... is a commonly accept...

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Let Me Tell You Something About That Night

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View sample pages. Be warned, mothers should not read these stories to their children, even though they might contain a lonely elf, a talking moon, a butterfly that wants to be a rabbit, or a boy w...

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Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry

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Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry

Catching crickets after school, waiting for class to end, playing with lanterns during Mid-Autumn festival, observing one’s grandfather cut his nails, watching the rain and the world go by – these ...

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Living with Myths in Singapore

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Read the Content Page and Chapter 1: Singapore as a Mythic Nation here. Singapore is a mythic nation, where our ‘reality’ and ‘common sense’ are conditioned by a group of influential myths. Our ma...

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Local Encounters in a Global City. Singapore Stories.

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Local Encounters in a Global City. Singapore Stories.

  What is the impact of a constant flow of people and capital in one of the most globalised cities in the world? In this collection of essays, the authors pursue an ethnographic approach to globali...

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Loss Adjustment

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 “I have had nothing bad happen to me except my own doing. I have let this cowardice envelop me, and I can’t shake it off. I will commit the worst thing you can ever do to someone who loves you: k...

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Lost Bodies: Poems between Portugal and Home

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Lost Bodies: Poems between Portugal and Home

Sample Pages Four writers. Three travelling in Portugal. One staying behind to care for his ailing mother. One long-distance writing affair. The passing of the mother together with memories of othe...

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Lost Nostalgia

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Lost Nostalgia

Read sample stories from the collection. A rainbow is glimpsed in the enveloping darkness of Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s stories. Precious because it is mostly fleeting—a herd of cattle finds deliveranc...

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Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore

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Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore

 Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore contemplates and re-centres Singapore women in the overlapping discourses of family, home, ecology and nation. For the first time, this collection of ...

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Malay Sketches

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Malay Sketches

Longlisted for the 2013 Frank O'connor International Short Story Award Malay Sketches is a collection of stories that borrows its name from a book of anecdotes by colonial governor Frank Swettenham...

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Man/Born/Free: Writings on the Human Spirit From Singapore

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Man/Born/Free: Writings on the Human Spirit From Singapore

  "Through the history of the twentieth century, we have surely all become spiritual children of Nelson Mandela and siblings to South Africa, through whose momentous struggles we find an image for ...

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Mango the Cat

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  This is a set of books used for shared reading in preschools. Originally written by the author for his young daughter and illustrated by his good friend, this story was subsequently modified for ...

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Me Migrant

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View sample pages Me migrantBeyond bordersMislaying smilesDawn to dusk then dawn again Me Migrant features the poems of Md Mukul Hossine – poems originally written in Bengali by Mukul, transcreated...

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Memorandum

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Memorandum

 Featuring new translations of previously untranslated Chinese short stories, Memorandum maps out seven decades of Sinophone Singaporean Literature. From bargirls to student activists, from trishaw...

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My Burning Hill

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My Burning Hill

View sample pages. My Burning Hill is a long poem in fifty-six sections. Dr Rosaly Puthucheary wrote this long poem while taking on the perspective of her late brother, Dr James Puthucheary who pla...

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My Nantah Story: The Rise and Demise of the People’s University

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My Nantah Story: The Rise and Demise of the People’s University

Read the foreword and Tan Kok Chiang's introduction here. In 1958, more than a hundred thousand people attended the inauguration ceremony of Nanyang University (Nantah), a true “people’s universit...

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My New Monster Truck

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My New Monster Truck

A lively story about a girl learning to drive… a remote-control truck. She caused havoc in the market, but the uncles and aunties forgave her when she apologised. They then taught her how to handle...

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Nine Yard Sarees: a short story cycle

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Nine Yard Sarees: a short story cycle

Available in paperback and e-book format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each purchase of a paperback. Nine Yard Sarees is a multigenerational portrait of...

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No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry

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No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry

There is no other city quite like Singapore, and yet, no other city which these voices might call their own. No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry brings together a rich spectrum of po...

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Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore

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Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore

Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each purchase of a paperback   Disability is all around us—among people we meet, the media, sports, our own family and fri...

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Notes After Terawih

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Notes After Terawih

  ‘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 based on my distracted observation during night...

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one point six one eight

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one point six one eight

View sample pages. one point six one eight is a long poem in two parts: ‘migration’, with 13 smaller poems, and ‘home’, with 8. The book title reflects the ratio of 13/8, or the golden ratio of 1.6...

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Ordinary Stories in an Extraordinary World

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View sample pages. This book tells the stories of a boy with autism living in a world he views in his own, special way. His take on the routines of daily life would seem, to most people, a plunge i...

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry 2020parsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poems in English on the o...

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Payoh

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Read Chapter 1 and 2 here. In a writing workshop at Changi Prison, retired professor JG Chan encounters a story written by inmate Alphonsus Goh. ‘Payoh’ tells the adventures of a sulphur-crested c...

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Peninsular: Archipelagos and Other Islands

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Peninsular: Archipelagos and Other Islands

Peninsular, Daren Shiau's second book, is built around the inescapable motif of islands and archipelagos. The collection redeems as it explores identity and existence through notions of fragments, ...

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Phedra

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Phedra is a poetry collection of re-interpreted mythology – with an emphasis on female identity – which delves into the juxtaposition of idolatry and banality. Read 4 poems → Listen to Euginia read...

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Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: Witness poems and essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)

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Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: Witness poems and essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)

Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring is a multi-publisher, not-for-profit collaboration that aims to amplify the voices of the Burmese people alongside the ongoing Civil Disobedience Mov...

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Poetry Moves: An Anthology of Poetry

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This anthology collects over 100 poems from Singapore, Asia and around the world, and is aimed at the adolescent reader. It seeks to cultivate a love of poetry and an exploration of real-world issu...

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Potong: To Care/Cut

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In Johnny Jon Jon’s plays, seemingly ordinary events are turned into hauntingly profound exchanges when the individual’s sense of self comes under scrutiny. In Hawa, a new Muslim convert finds hers...

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Priest In Geylang: The Untold Story of the Geylang Catholic Centre

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Priest In Geylang: The Untold Story of the Geylang Catholic Centre

Cosmopolitan Singapore—emblematic of globalised capitalism—usually calls to mind a number of clichés: orderly, clean and green, a shopping and business paradise, and a model of sound economic manag...

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Pulse

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Touch like a pulse. A young man dies by his own hands, and leaves behind a note urging his mother to remember Godzilla’s touch, a reference to her relationship with Natalie Chia in 1970s Singapore....

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Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History

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Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial h...

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Rebound: LaoLao's Guide to Giving Up

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Rebound: LaoLao's Guide to Giving Up

What does giving up mean to you? In February 2010, LaoLao, then a player for the Singapore Slingers and National Team, had a near-fatal accident while he was training. He sustained a major head inj...

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Right of the Soil

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry 2020 Read 4 poems from Right of the Soil → The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born wit...

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Riot Recollections

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View sample pages here. The riot that struck Little India on 8 December 2013 was the worst outbreak of violence Singapore had experienced in four decades. Within minutes, updates—and judgments—pour...

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Running on Empty: The Story Behind 0.01s

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Running on Empty: The Story Behind 0.01s

“I think I spent more time fighting the system and officials than actually running faster and faster.” —UK Shyam, in an interview with the media in 2004 Running on Empty is a revealing insight int...

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Saga Seeds

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View sample pages. Saga Seeds is Patricia Maria Tan's latest poetry collection. The title of her book refers most aptly to her poems, taut red beads of memory and observation. Nostalgic references ...

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Separation: A History

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Separation: A History

View sample pages. The sequel to The Law of Second Marriages, the best-selling and critically acclaimed poetry book by Christine. With "terrifying sparseness and intensity", as Cyril Wong observes,...

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Shezlez the Self-Proclaimed

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Shezlez the Self-Proclaimed

  Shezlez the Self-Proclaimed is an absurdist story about a poor man’s ambition to organise his own political party in an unnamed country characterised by moral apathy, poverty and heartless bur...

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Siglap at the Crossroads: Memories of Its Only HDB Estate

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Siglap at the Crossroads: Memories of Its Only HDB Estate

This is a full‐colour spread of photos and stories that capture the sights and heartbeat of Siglap HDB housing estate. “Sometimes, we don’t appreciate how precious some things are until they are g...

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Singa-Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore

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Singa-Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore

From a future of electronic doas and AI psychotherapists, sense-activated communion with forests and a portal to realms undersea, to a reimagined origin and afterlife—editor and translator Nazry Ba...

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Singapore Notebook & Blessed Isle

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Singapore Notebook & Blessed Isle

“We teeter between celebration and hubris, between the trump card of capitalism and the burning of the gifts for the dead. We are waiting for Godzilla to arise out of the sea and take back what is ...

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Singapore Siu Dai 2: The SG Conversation Upsize!

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View sample pages. Bolder and edgier! Felix Cheong's follow-up to Singapore Siu Dai finds him poking his pen once again in topical issues. And he doesn't shy away from spoofing highly-paid minister...

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Singapore Siu Dai: The SG Conversation In A Cup

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Singapore Siu Dai: The SG Conversation In A Cup

View sample pages. Life in Singapore is good, sometimes even — dare we say it? — absurd. In Singapore Siu Dai, Felix Cheong, with a little help from illustrator PMan, finds humour in the everyday. ...

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Singapore, Incomplete: Reflections on a First World nation’s arrested political development

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Singapore, Incomplete: Reflections on a First World nation’s arrested political development

View content page here. As the government lays the ground for a transition to a fourth generation of leaders after the death of Lee Kuan Yew and its 2015 general election triumph, Cherian George co...

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Singapore: A Portrait In Diversity

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View sample pages. Singapore is a melting pot of nations: people from all over the world come to this small island to live and work. Tom Soper captures 50 stunning portraits of people from 50 diffe...

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Some Say, A Tapir

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Some Say, A Tapir

Featuring new work from Alfian Sa’at, Christine Chia and Yong Shu Hoong, Some Say, A Tapir recaptures the year 1299 of Singapore’s history. The collection delves into stories—both living and legend...

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Spomenik

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  Spomenik is a collection of poems and photographs from the Balkans. These impressions of people and places bookmark a glimpse of life across a multitude of cities, crossing terrains of history, w...

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Spomenik Postcards: Set of 8

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These are limited edition prints of photographs taken and featured in Spomenik by Marc Nair. Spomenik is a collection of poems and photographs from the Balkans. These impressions of people and pl...

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Straight from the Heart

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  A collection of over 40 poems first written in English by Pratap Nambiar and then transcreated in Chinese by Dr Ho Chee Lick. The latter, after 10 months of intense interaction with the poet, was...

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Sudden In Youth: New and Selected Poems

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Sudden In Youth: New and Selected Poems

Out 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 language. Sucking up the marrow of his life, from crisi...

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Teacher Thinker Rebel Why: Portraits of Chee Soon Juan

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  Published by Singapore Democratic Party View sample pages (English)View sample pages (Chinese)  Dr Chee Soon Juan, a young lecturer with the National University of Singapore, burst onto the polit...

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Teachers' Guide to How We Live Now: A Study Companion - Digital Copy

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Please note that this product is a digital PDF. If you are a teacher who plans to use the study companion in the classroom (i.e. adding How We Live Now: A Study Companion into your school text list...

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Teachers' Guide to Sense and Sensitivity - Digital Copy

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  Please note, this product is a digital PDF.If you are a teacher who plans to use Sense & Sensitivity in the classroom (i.e. adding Sense & Sensitivity into your school text list and askin...

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That We May Dream Again (2nd Edition)

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That We May Dream Again (2nd Edition)

  In the early morning of 21 May 1987, sixteen Singaporeans were arrested under the Internal Security Act of Singapore. The Act legitimizes detention without trial. In the weeks that followed, anot...

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The Adopted: Stories from Angkor

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  One ancient land. Four writers. Guilt, ruins, loss, fear of change, and forgiveness. Enter a labyrinth of stories prompted by shared experiences, shaped by different themes, provocations, inspira...

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The Art of Advocacy In Singapore

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The Art of Advocacy In Singapore

  Advocacy is a tricky pursuit in Singapore. Your motives can be questioned, your activities monitored, and your scope for action limited.  Despite the constraints, civil society activists have per...

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The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks of Singapura

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  Sung by the ghost of the first British Resident and Commandant of colonial Singapore, William Farquhar, this is a complaint complete with classy rhyme. Farquhar gives his account of his struggle ...

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The Cuckoo Conundrum

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The Cuckoo Conundrum

  “You’ve been away for too long, he replies, in a tone that I think sounds reproachful. Maybe I’m being paranoid. I made a family, I say. My husband has a job that isn’t here. A lot has happened, ...

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The Dictator's Eyebrow

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Finalist for the Singapore Book Publishers Association Awards 2016.   This is a disturbing, poetic account of an unnamed dictator’s eyebrow whose longings, delusions of grandeur, and curious influe...

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The First Five: A New Collection of Southeast Asian Writing

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This anthology of poetry and short stories marks another milestone in the literary tradition of Southeast Asia and co-operation among its publishing community. There were five founding members of t...

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The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually

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The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually

  When 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 with guilt, Anna tries to make amends as she gra...

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The Hidden Papyrus of Hen-taui

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The Hidden Papyrus of Hen-taui

 Wong Phui Nam (b.1935, Kuala Lumpur) began to write while he was a student at the University of Malaya in Singapore (now the National University of Singapore). He saw the writing and publishing of...

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The Inlet

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 • The Inlet was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize, 2014 (English Fiction category) A young female Chinese national drowns in a private swimming pool in a wealthy enclave on a resort i...

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The Invisible Force: Singapore Gurkhas

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The Invisible Force: Singapore Gurkhas

  The Gurkhas need no introduction, with their storied reputation built up over two centuries of battlefield exploits around the world. A unit of these Nepalese warriors have been serving Singapore...

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The Magic Circle

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 I sit by your bed and watch you, as I sometimes do. There are days when you are so beautiful and vivacious and alive, we cannot believe that you are going to die. Other days, we are convinced you ...

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The NTU-NAC Writing Residencies Chapbooks (Gift Box Set)

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The NTU-NAC Writing Residencies Chapbooks (Gift Box Set)

  This gift box set features works by NTU-NAC Writers in Residence. All five chapbooks are packaged together and sold as an entire collection, and as a collectible. The titles in the series: The Cu...

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The Orchid Folios

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The Orchid Folios

Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 2022)  “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braid...

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The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope

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The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope

Available in paperback and e-book format. Purchase the paperback and get 50% off the e-book!  Singapore is small, a complex country full of contradictions, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies. Ofte...

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The Sound of SCH: A Mental Breakdown, A Life Journey

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The Sound of SCH: A Mental Breakdown, A Life Journey

Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (Non-Fiction 2016) Can a life weave along through the same notes and yet come to play forth different sounds? The Sound of SCH (pronounced S-C-H) is the tru...

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The Viewing Party

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Winner of the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize for English Poetry   Singapore Literature Prize winner Yong Shu Hoong’s latest book features more than just poetry. There is also a ghostly tale at its...

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The Wrong/Wrung Side of Love

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 • The Wrong/Wrung Side of Love was the winner for the 2nd Annual USA Regional Excellence Book Awards, 2016 (Poetry category) for West region If Desmond Kon’s earlier collection The Arbitrary Sign ...

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Theatres of Memory

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Theatres of Memory

Published by: Pagesetters Services   Most of the old factories are long gone and many workers have retired. Combining history, memory and heritage, Theatres of Memory: Industrial Heritage of 20th C...

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These Foolish Things & Other Stories

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 This debut collection by Yeo Wei Wei explores the realms between private selves, past and present, through vivid and haunting motifs—a singing bird, a lost soul in a yellow umbrella, an ivory carv...

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They Told Us To Move: Dakota—Cassia

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They Told Us To Move: Dakota—Cassia

 What happens when an entire community is moved? Dakota Crescent was one of Singapore's oldest public housing estates and a rental flat neighbourhood for low-income households. In 2016, its residen...

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this is how you walk on the moon: an anthology of anti-realist fiction

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this is how you walk on the moon: an anthology of anti-realist fiction

Looking for strategies to cope with existing under an omniscient narrator? Keen to optimise your interactions with ancient deities? Perhaps you’re a star in a corner of the Milky Way with a penchan...

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This Is Not A Safety Barrier: An Anthology of Poetry & Photography

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This Is Not A Safety Barrier: An Anthology of Poetry & Photography

  The city has never been ours; it is fleeting, a collection of habits and faint peals of laughter from glass towers.  The old rivers are covered up, disinfected, bricked. Still we flood, still we ...

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This Is What Inequality Looks Like

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  NATIONAL BESTSELLER This New Edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the author, and a Foreword by Kwok Kian Woon, Professor of Sociology at the ...

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This Mortal World

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This Mortal World

  • This Mortal World was shortlisted for the 2012 Singapore Literature Prize. Gods, animals, and men walk together in the landscape of these poems, sometimes aware of each other, sometimes not. A ...

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To Gather Your Leaving: Asian Diaspora Poetry from America, Australia, UK and Europe

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To Gather Your Leaving: Asian Diaspora Poetry from America, Australia, UK and Europe

 Tracking the developments of Asian diaspora poetry in America, Australia, UK and Europe, To Gather Your Leaving is a groundbreaking global anthology that explores new ways of looking at nation, cu...

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Trackless Paths

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Trackless Paths

  Cerealbox Studios’ Joshua Chiang breathes new life into some of the wisest words ever spoken with an enthralling menagerie of animal characters created especially for this collection Each illustr...

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Traveler's Tale and Other Poems

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Traveler's Tale and Other Poems

  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 ...

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Troublemaker

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  Troublemaker is a collection of Bertha Henson’s columns from her blog, Bertha Harian, as well as the now defunct Breakfast Network. They represent her take on the news of the day, spanning politi...

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Under A Shadow

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Under A Shadow

  “Mum, what’s happening? Are we poor?”“Your father has gotten into some trouble.”“What kind of trouble?” When Singapore surrendered to Japan in 1942, Rosaly Puthucheary was only six years old. Und...

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UnFree Verse

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UnFree Verse

Second Edition   Rhyme is Shakespeare. Rhythm is rap. Sing Lit is free verse. If you’ve ever had such thoughts, let this book demolish them. With poems drawn from 80 years of print and online mater...

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UNION : 15 Years of Drunken Boat, 50 Years of Writing From Singapore

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UNION : 15 Years of Drunken Boat, 50 Years of Writing From Singapore

  UNION traces the intertwining trajectories of two dynamic communities: the cosmopolitan Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore, commemorating 50 years of national independence and writing, to ce...

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Vital Possessions

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Vital Possessions by Marc Nair contemplates how city-dwellers negotiate their uneasy relationship with nature in a world where growth is both man-made and natural. The jungle is always one trim awa...

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Voting in a Time of Change: Singapore’s 2020 General Election

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Voting in a Time of Change: Singapore’s 2020 General Election

 GE2020: an election that should not be forgotten for yielding startling outcomes, including the appointment of the first Leader of the Opposition. Voting in a Time of Change is part of a longitudi...

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Voting In Change: The Politics of Singapore

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Voting In Change: The Politics of Singapore

  Singapore’s 2011 general election went 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, and the...

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What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian

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What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian

A celebration of the slippages, strife and secret histories that make us—for better or worse—who we are. A woman faces off against a xenophobic stranger across a supermarket turnstile.A young girl ...

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When a Flower Dies

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When a Flower Dies

 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 seaside village in colonial Singapore in the 1940s. ...

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Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering

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Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering

 Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering is a rich, entertaining and compelling account of the life of an extraordinary woman. In a land of many cultures, many races, many religions;...

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Why Our Great Leader was Not So Great and Not Much of a Leader

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Why Our Great Leader was Not So Great and Not Much of a Leader

  For many Singaporeans, Sir Stamford Raffles was Great Leader and White Saviour all rolled into one. The one man, one country narrative allowed a simplistic telling of a complex tale concerning Si...

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Wives, Lovers & Other Women

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  “When he wanted a cup of coffee, he just snapped his fingers, said ‘coffee’ and his wife would bring it to him. I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with that... man rules and woman serves...

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(Imperfect) The Never Mind Girl and Other Stories

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Note: As the books are not in mint condition, this title is being sold at a discounted price. Do expect your copy to have foxing/yellowed pages. Please refer to product images for details.   Anna i...

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1987: Singapore’s Marxist Conspiracy 30 Years On

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1987: Singapore’s Marxist Conspiracy 30 Years On

  Published by Function 8 LtdSurvivors of Operation Spectrum—the alleged Marxist conspiracy—speak up in this volume. For many of them, this is the first time that they cast their minds back to 1987...

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25 Years of The Substation: Reflections on Singapore's First Independent Art Centre

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25 Years of The Substation: Reflections on Singapore's First Independent Art Centre

 INDEPENDENCE. OPPORTUNITY. RAW. EXPERIMENTAL. FRINGE. PROGRESS. RESPONSIVE. EMPATHY. FEARLESS. IMAGINATION. PERSEVERANCE. CHALLENGE. INCUBATOR. SUPPORTIVE. CONTEMPORARY. MULTIDISCIPLINARY. SOCIOPO...

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35 for Gothenburg

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  35 for Gothenburg is a collection of the most notable and new poetry by Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo, translated into Swedish to introduce Singapore to a wide Swedish audience. For Swedes, Pr...

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A Family Portrait

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  Lin Yang’s debut novel is the pensive, soul-searching journey of protagonist Fan as she unshackles the past of two generations of women to find reconciliation and strength. When Fan, the restless...

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A Far Better Thing I Do...: The 2000 From Monfalcone

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A Far Better Thing I Do...: The 2000 From Monfalcone

  In the early months of 1947, 2000 workers from the Monfalcone shipyard and aircraft factory in Italy resigned from their stable jobs and set off for Fiume. They went not because of necessity, but...

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A is for Achar, L is for Love

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A is for Achar, L is for Love

  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. Growing up in Popo’s house, the seve...

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A Lover's Soliloquy

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A Lover's Soliloquy

  A Lover's Soliloquy is Eddie Tay's second volume of poetry. His debut collection, Remnants, featured acclaimned adaptations of three Classical Chinese Poets, and renditions of mythic and colonial...

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A Nation Awakes: Frontline Reflections

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A Nation Awakes: Frontline Reflections

edited by Tan Jee SayEthos Books no longer stocks this title. View sample pages. Synopsis Few nations if any, have ever held two national elections in a span of four months. Fewer still are key pla...

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A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat

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A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat

  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 tells the story of a forgotten pioneer of Singapo...

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A Visitation of Sunlight

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A Visitation of Sunlight

  • Voted one of the year's best books by The Straits Times (1997).A rousing first poetry collection from Aaron Lee. A Visitation of Sunlight is divided into two sections: ‘Night’s Long Road’ and ‘...

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A Whole Neu World: 18 Months in Laos

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A Whole Neu World: 18 Months in Laos

  A Whole Neu World is an engaging account of Neu Wee Teck's (mis)adventures in Laos and his encounters with its lovely people during his stint as a volunteer teacher with the Singapore Internation...

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Afternoon Tea at Raffles Hotel

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Afternoon Tea at Raffles Hotel

  What do the animals from the Singapore Zoo do on their day off? They meet for cake and tea at Raffles Hotel of course. This little book for early readers is a celebration of important landmarks a...

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Afternoon Tea at Raffles Hotel Singapore: A Fun Activity Book

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Afternoon Tea at Raffles Hotel Singapore: A Fun Activity Book

 Can you help my friends and I find our way around Singapore? We’re off on an adventure exploring colours, letters and numbers. ROAR! EXCITEMENT GALORE! You’ll have fun with:Tactile Tracing, Creati...

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Antoine de Saint Exupery (TPC 0014): Illustrated Greeting Card

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Antoine de Saint Exupery (TPC 0014): Illustrated Greeting Card

This is a print of an illustration featured in Trackless Paths. It features an albatross pair.  The quote reads, "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in ...

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Aporia

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Aporia

 “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 j...

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Australian Aborigine Proverb (TPC 0012): Illustrated Greeting Card

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Australian Aborigine Proverb (TPC 0012): Illustrated Greeting Card

This is a print of an illustration featured in Trackless Paths. It features two kola bears in a cave. The quote reads, “Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we re...

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Bring The Sun

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Bring The Sun

 This is a collection of 50 poems from the doyen of Singapore poetry, culled from three of his earlier works which are now out of print. Says Jonathan Webster of the City University of Hong Kong, "...

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Bring The Sun (DVD)

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Bring The Sun (DVD)

  This 90 minute DVD features the doyen of Singapore poetry, Professor Edwin Thumboo, reading from the entire collection of 50 poems featured in the book Bring The Sun and discussing the background...

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Buddha (TPC 0017): Illustrated Greeting Card

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Buddha (TPC 0017): Illustrated Greeting Card

This is a print of an illustration featured in Trackless Paths. It features an elephant and a racoon dog pilgrim. The quote reads, “The path of the enlightened one leaves no track- it is like the ...

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Budi Kritik

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Budi Kritik

Why is it important to imbibe a thinking culture? What can contemporary Malays contribute by way of an active intellectual and social life towards reform and progress? Where are the loci of critica...

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Burton Hills (TPC 0006): Illustrated Greeting Card

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Burton Hills (TPC 0006): Illustrated Greeting Card

This is a print of an illustration featured in Trackless Paths. The quote reads, "The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other”. -...

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Change in Voting: Singapore's 2015 General Election

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Change in Voting: Singapore's 2015 General Election

  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 demise of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. It w...

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Chuang Tzu (TPC 0013): Illustrated Greeting Card

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Chuang Tzu (TPC 0013): Illustrated Greeting Card

This is a print of an illustration featured in Trackless Paths. It features a turtle floating down a stream without any cares and worries. The quote reads,"Flow with whatever may happen and let yo...

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Crossing Universes

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Crossing Universes

  A companion to Unhomed, the other chapbook in the LIVEpress series, Crossing Universes begins with Theophilus Kwek’s “On Roads and Rituals”, a reflection on why we travel and what it means to be ...

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Democratically Speaking

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Democratically Speaking

 Dr Chee Soon Juan, Singaporean neuropsychologist and secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party, sets out his political ideas and his experiences of Singapore's political scene since he w...

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DIFFERENT

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DIFFERENT

How did a man in a wheelchair break a world record? What did a factory worker do to get her PhD? Who turned an ah beng gangster into a committed volunteer? What does it really mean to be DIFFERENT?...

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Different Strokes

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  Keith, a reporter has to interview the first person to be diagnosed with AIDS and write a “newsy” story. It was the beginning of a lesson on the social attitudes towards AIDS and its victims in t...

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Double Skin: New Poetic Voices From Italy and Singapore

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Double Skin: New Poetic Voices From Italy and Singapore

Turin encounters Singapore: the traditional heart of industrial and cultural Europe meets the dynamic passion of modern Asia. Featuring ten amazing new poetic voices from Italy and Singapore in bot...

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Eastern Heathens: An Anthology of Subverted Asian Folklore

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Eastern Heathens: An Anthology of Subverted Asian Folklore

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

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Edwin Thumboo: Bibliography 1952 - 2008

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Edwin Thumboo: Bibliography 1952 - 2008

  Prof Thumboo was appointed Professor of English at the National University of Singapore in January 1979 and is presently Emeritus Professor of the Department of English Language and Literature an...

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Electric Flying Tram-Car

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  This book is a day-by-day catalogue of events and impressions covering the period from March to June 1958 by Dr George Caldwell, a Ship's Surgeon who travelled east from out of England, and who t...

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Emily Matthews (TPC 0005): Illustrated Greeting Card

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Emily Matthews (TPC 0005): Illustrated Greeting Card

This is a print of an illustration featured in Trackless Paths. The quote reads, "The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other." - Emily Matthews The inside is blank and each ca...

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Eskimo Proverb (TPC 0015): Illustrated Greeting Card

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Eskimo Proverb (TPC 0015): Illustrated Greeting Card

This is a print of an illustration featured in Trackless Paths. It features a polar bear and his son looking together at the heavens. The quote reads, "Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but r...

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Essays on Edwin Thumboo

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Essays on Edwin Thumboo

  There is an element of mystery in the poetry of Edwin Thumboo. Mystery in the sense of there being, to borrow Einstein’s wording, “something subtle, intangible and inexplicable”, and truly beyond...

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Eye/Feel/Write For You

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Eye/Feel/Write For You

“The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.”   For T. S. Eliot, it must have been an allusion. Memory, or the idea of it. A bit of paint smeared. Smoke from a factory. A cat looking i...

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Face to Faith

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Face to Faith

  This collection of poems was written during a two-year courageous battle against cancer. Aileen wrote her first poem “My Jaw Muscle and I” shortly after a major operation which replaced her disea...

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Fariduddin Attar (TPC 0010): Illustrated Greeting Card

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Fariduddin Attar (TPC 0010): Illustrated Greeting Card

This is a print of an illustration featured in Trackless Paths. It features a hamster jumping off a cliff in an attempt to fly. The quote reads, “I'd rather die deceived by dreams than giveMy hear...

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Fear No Poetry

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Fear No Poetry

  Afraid 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, writing about it? Confused by the kooky critical terms...

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Finding Francis: A Poetic Adventure

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Finding Francis: A Poetic Adventure

 Who is Francis P. Ng? This question consumed the mind of Japanese scholar Eriko Ogihara-Schuck as she read F.M.S.R. A Poem by Francis P. Ng in her study of how the poet T. S. Eliot had influenced ...

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Five Right Angles

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Five Right Angles

  • Five Right Angles was a finalist in the 2008 Singapore Literature Prize awardsThere exists no geometric form with five right angles. This collection of poems speaks with both guarded tenderness...

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Flow Across Our Ocean: Singapore & South Africa

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Flow Across Our Ocean: Singapore & South Africa

This booklet commemorates the Opening Ceremony of Spotlight Singapore in Cape Town (16–19 March 2011), an international exchange programme co-organised by Asian Culture Enterprise Singapore (ACES) ...

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Footfalls in the Rain

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Footfalls in the Rain

  Footfalls in the Rain, in 4 Cantos, is a long poem about the journey from youth to age. Each canto deals with one aspect of the psychological journey. However, many of the individual poems are re...

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Godsmacked

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Godsmacked

  Through the 90-odd paintings in this book, Teng Jee Hum hopes to share his feelings about what it has been like to be a Singaporean in the last 50 years or so. Many of the images are the artist’s...

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Hamilton Wright Mabie (TPC 0004): Illustrated Greeting Card

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Hamilton Wright Mabie (TPC 0004): Illustrated Greeting Card

This is a print of an illustration featured in Trackless Paths. The quote reads, “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” ― Hamilton Wright Mabie The inside i...

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Happy Long Life to You

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Happy Long Life to You

  How do the vulnerable love and live? In a HIV shelter for children in India, a group of medical students from Singapore meet Uma—a victim, a survivor, a mother. Drawing on Uma’s life experiences...

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Here and Beyond: 12 Stories | A Study Companion

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Here and Beyond: 12 Stories | A Study Companion

View sample pages. Here and Beyond: 12 Stories | A Study Companion serves as a readable and illuminating guide to the anthology, Here and Beyond: 12 Stories. The author presents detailed analyses o...

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Hook and Eye: The Study Companion

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Hook and Eye: The Study Companion

  Hook and Eye: The Study Companion walks the reader through the short story anthology edited by Dr Philip Holden, Hook and Eye: Stories from the Margins, a recommended O-level literature text in S...

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Human Resource Case Studies

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Human Resource Case Studies

  This book recounts 15 cases that Martin personally handled as a HR consultant. Each case mirrors the thoughts and strategies employed by Martin, and demonstrates how one can be flexible in dealin...

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Human Rights Perspectives

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Human Rights Perspectives

  The contribution of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the modern world is far-reaching. Despite being a “declaration” it has exerted enormous influence on a host of international ...

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I am not a label, I am Gary

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I am not a label, I am Gary

 An abused child. A tattooed gangster. A Boys’ Town resident. A punk rock chef. A camp leader. A speaker and facilitator. A recipient of LKY Model Student Award. A tuition teacher. A trainee socia...

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i write a page

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i write a page

 i write a page is a close encounter with homegrown singer Kit Chan, without make-up and glitter. Written between 1990-1995, during which the singer recorded three albums in Mandarin and moved to T...

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iDENTiTY

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iDENTiTY

iDENTiTY is David Leo's third collection of poems after Somewhere a Tiny Voice (1993) and One Journey, Many Rivers (1997). Louis James, a professor at the University of Kent, UK, finds the poems "i...

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In Pursuit of NEW LIFE

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In Pursuit of NEW LIFE

  This is a collection of stories of 14 families of different ancestry, whose forefathers migrated to Southeast Asia from southern China in the last two centuries. Despite suffering severe hardship...

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Interlogue Series Collection (8 Volumes)

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Interlogue Series Collection (8 Volumes)

  A nation's history is reflected in its Literature. As such, the Literature must be studied and studied not only by those who "belong" to the nation in terms of citizenship, but also by those who ...

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 1: Fiction

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 1: Fiction

Interlogue is an exciting new Series which will bring into critical focus the works of Singapore writers in English. The Series aims for stimulating insights through sustained engagements with a va...

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 2: Poetry

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 2: Poetry

  Following the success of the first volume on Singapore Fiction, the second volume of Interlogue will focus on Poetry in Singapore. Besides well-known poets such as Edwin Thumboo and Lee Tzu Pheng...

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 3: Drama

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 3: Drama

  Theatre in Singapore has come a long way since the colonial days. The mushrooming of theatre companies, the surge of theatrical performances since the 1980s, and the recent staging of Completely ...

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 4: Interviews

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 4: Interviews

  In this volume, Dr. Ronald D. Klein shares with us the invaluable insights to the background and works of selected poets, writers and playwrights within their respective social context and climat...