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Siglap at the Crossroads: Memories of Its Only HDB Estate

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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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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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“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: The SG Conversation In A Cup

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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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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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Sister Snake

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A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secret. Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, mone...

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Some Say, A Tapir

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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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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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Tales of Two Cities

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[e-book format]Hong Kong and Singapore. Two cities which encapsulate the buzz and culture of Asia.23 stories by the Hong Kong Writers Circle and the Singapore Writers Group present four faces of th...

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Tartuffe: The Imposter & G*d Is A Woman

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G*D IS A WOMAN In Singapore, there is only one rule: be careful who you troll. Frustrated by the rigid, unforgiving system in which they try to make art, a bunch of irate artists start a fake petit...

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Please note, this product is a digital PDF. This is the Teachers' Guide to How We Live Now: A Study Companion. This PDF guide provides some pointers and suggested answers for the questions that app...

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Please note, this product is a digital PDF.This is the Teachers' Guide to Sense and Sensitivity: A Guide to Unseen Poetry for the GCE ‘O’ and ‘N’ Level Exam. This PDF guide will provide some pointe...

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Teaching Poetry To Adolescents: A Teacher's Guide to Little Things (first edition)

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In this Teachers’ Guide, Loh Chin Ee, Angelia Poon and Esther Vincent introduce effective and inspirational ideas and strategies for teaching poetry in the secondary Literature classroom that both ...

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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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  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 CAPE Handbook to Advocacy in Singapore

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The Cuckoo Conundrum

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  “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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  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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 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 Invisible Force: Singapore Gurkhas

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  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 Magical Time Capsule

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ABOUT THE BOOK Two children from a different galaxy forge ties with a child from Earth. A magical time capsule moves them through the 1940s to modern Singapore, and they learn about the different s...

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

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  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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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 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 ...

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The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on Home, Community and Hope

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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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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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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 Ce...

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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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 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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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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  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 Na...

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This Mortal World

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  • 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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 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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  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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  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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Under A Shadow

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  “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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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 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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 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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  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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We Are Not The Enemy: The Practice of Advocacy in Singapore

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View a recording of the launch here: Available in paperback and e-book format. Purchase the paperback and get 50% off the e-book! Advocates and activists in Singapore contribute to policy discuss...

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What Gives Us Our Names

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What Gives Us Our Names

He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you have already forgotten. For a canvas, he used not his own skin but his very life, spending his d...

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What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian

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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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 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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Why Palestine?: Reflections From Singapore

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Why Palestine?: Reflections From Singapore

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. If you’ve ever wondered why people keep talking abo...

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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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“Now you are gone and for a while my womb lost its voice and forgot how to sing. / What is a song but a daughter’s love transcending time and space? / I am learning to listen.” When her beloved dog...

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  How did a tiger get his name – Silly Snigger Stripe Riper? His adventures in a jungle, deep, deep in Asia, are inter-woven with those of two hunters. One can take this as a warm tale of family, f...

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Simply This ~ Simply His: Portraits of Sng Boh Khim

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Simply This ~ Simply His: Portraits of Sng Boh Khim

 A gentleman fluent with the pen comes through clearly in this collection of Sng Boh Khim's writings. But more than that, in these pages we find portraits of Boh Khim as a son, a brother, a husband...

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  The Singapore International Foundation invited members of the international community to share their unique insights and personal experiences of Singapore so that more might know about Singapore ...

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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 3: The SG Conversation Dabao!

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Singapore Siu Dai 3: The SG Conversation Dabao!

Two years and a 2kg weight gain later, Felix Cheong is back with more Siu Dai stories. So much has happened, from SG50 to GE2015, as Singapore matures into a weirder society. And these short, short...

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Singapore Siu Dai Box Set

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Singapore Siu Dai Box Set

View sample pages You’ve asked for it, we’ve heard you and here it is. The whole Singapore Siu Dai experience, in one packaging. Savour the digs at the government. Laugh at our oddball Singaporean-...

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Sleeping Wind

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Sleeping Wind

  Reshma Aquil’s gift as a poet is one of evocation—a scent of something remembered, a landscape rendered, an innocence redeemed.Lyrical and instinctive, she uses words like brushstrokes that recal...

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Somewhere A Tiny Voice

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Somewhere A Tiny Voice

 This is a collection of poems that spans 20 years of writing. The poems may appear personal, but feelings of love, grief, mirth, hope and disappointment are definitely universal. David Leo writes ...

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Sound of Mind: A Teacher-Writers Anthology of Poems and Prompts

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Sound of Mind: A Teacher-Writers Anthology of Poems and Prompts

This is an exciting offering of poems from a constellation of teacher-writers, including published and familiar authors such as Ann Ang, Ken Mizusawa, Eric Tinsay Valles, Christine Chia, Patricia M...

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Spaces of the Dead: A Case from the Living

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Spaces of the Dead: A Case from the Living

View sample pages. Seen primarily as final resting places, cemeteries are increasingly under threat from urban redevelopment in land-scarce Singapore. Regarded as ‘excess space’ by state planners, ...

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Speaking Out & Speaking Up: Xinjiao Perspectives

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Speaking Out & Speaking Up: Xinjiao Perspectives

  This collection of essays by local and exchange students of SMU who were brought together to develop a deeper understanding of Singapore’s extraordinary progress in the past half century arose fr...

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Square Root of Time

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Square Root of Time

  This volume of poetry fuses financial mathematical concepts with poetic responses to life experiences to form a long multi-part poem based ostensibly on risk terminology. Using mathematical princ...

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Still Travelling

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Still Travelling

  Still Travelling is the much-awaited sixth book of poems by Edwin Thumboo. The last appeared in 2003. According to Jonathan Webster, Professor and Head, Department of Chinese Translation and Ling...

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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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Sufficiently Advanced? A Collection of Sci-Fi Stories

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Sufficiently Advanced? A Collection of Sci-Fi Stories

  “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”– Arthur C Clarke. But what is magic? Is there someone who should be given the power to wield it and how? The scientific app...

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Tales From The ECP

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Tales From The ECP

  Acronyms are peculiarly Singaporean short forms created to deliver information with optimal efficiency. An acronym very familiar to Singaporeans is ECP. Extending about 20 kilometres or so, the E...

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Tapestries: A Teaching Life

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Tapestries: A Teaching Life

Mrs Toh Kah Beng — a teacher's name which brought both fear and respect into the hearts of generations of students from one of Singapore's top schools.Growing up in the early years of post‐war Sing...

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Teacher Thinker Rebel Why: Portraits of Chee Soon Juan

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Teacher Thinker Rebel Why: Portraits of Chee Soon Juan

  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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Telltale: 11 Stories

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Telltale: 11 Stories

 • Telltale: 11 Stories is a targeted literature text for secondary schools in Singapore. ELEVEN STORIES BY SIX WRITERS, NONE OLDER THAN THEIR CITY-STATE OF SINGAPORE. This anthology of short ficti...

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Telltale: 11 Stories | A Study Companion

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Telltale: 11 Stories | A Study Companion

  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 pres...

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Teo Eng Seng: Art and Thoughts

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Teo Eng Seng: Art and Thoughts

  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, ...

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Testing The Silence

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Testing The Silence

*Do note that the books are not in mint condition (yellowed pages).  In Pang's first collection of poetry, he draws inspiration from everyday events to highlight the familiar silences that seem lad...

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That Night By The Beach and Other Stories

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That Night By The Beach and Other Stories

 A mysterious woman visits a patient in the middle of the night; a mute girl smiles ‘thank you’ to a music shop assistant; the guilty revisit the scene of their crime; a soldier enters a room. Draw...

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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 Accidental Entrepreneur: Life and Reflections of Choo Heng Thong

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The Accidental Entrepreneur: Life and Reflections of Choo Heng Thong

  Published by Choo Heng Thong 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 Singapor...

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The Beating and Other Stories

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The Beating and Other Stories

  • Shortlisted for the 2012 Singapore Literature Prize (English Category)• Longlisted for the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize A mysterious tiger roams in the shadows of an apar...

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The Birthday Book 2016: What is Singapore’s Next Big Thing?

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The Birthday Book 2016: What is Singapore’s Next Big Thing?

  “What is Singapore’s Next Big Thing?” An intellectual salvo from young and passionate Singaporeans inhabiting different slices of Singapore society, The Birthday Book is a collection of 51 essays...

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The Birthday Book 2017: What should we never forget?

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The Birthday Book 2017: What should we never forget?

 An annual publication, The Birthday Book examines emerging challenges and opportunities for Singapore, based on a selected prompt. The number of writers each year matches Singapore’s age—52 for 20...

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The Coffin That Wouldn't Bury and Other Stories

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The Coffin That Wouldn't Bury and Other Stories

  Welcome to this collection of 20 short stories where newscasters avoid starting debates, business travellers live for travel, permission is needed to be someone and characters walk off the plot w...

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The Evidence of the Senses

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The Evidence of the Senses

  Remembrance and desire, regret and anticipation, death and redemption. Tan’s epiphanic style gives access to the interpenetrating tensions of the human condition.In I Chose to Climb, a mother rea...

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The Girl Who Made It Snow in Singapore

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The Girl Who Made It Snow in Singapore

  Ariana, an eight-year-old schoolgirl, discovers one morning that her magical voice has the power to change the weather. She is subsequently forbidden by the authorities from using her supernatura...

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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 Makers and Keepers of Singapore History

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The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History

  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 th...

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The New Village

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The New Village

  The poems in The New Village were written in 1996 and 1997 in Iowa City, the University of Wisconsin – where Wong did his doctorate – and the University of California, Santa Barbara.Wong’s childh...

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The Politics of Defeat

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The Politics of Defeat

  It was a diary that had first sat at the back of a locked steel cabinet for two decades and then in a taped box for close to another four decades. A secret diary kept by a Cabinet Minister of the...

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The Proper Care of Foxes

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The Proper Care of Foxes

Longlisted for the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize Shortlisted for the 2010 Singapore Literature Prize (English Books)  Step into the quirky, tender, luminous world of Wena Poon...

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The Singapore Letters of Rigor Mortis

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The Singapore Letters of Rigor Mortis

  This book is a collection of letters by Dr George Caldwell, most of which were published in the main newspapers in Singapore from the late 1960s till the late 1990s. The letters were an attempt b...

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The Sins Of The Fathers and Other Stories

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The Sins Of The Fathers and Other Stories

  Winner of the Commendation Prize in the National Book Department Council Book Awards for works in English in 1994, this collection deals with life's many ironies, conflicts between past and prese...

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The Story of Ms. Poet

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by Khoo Lilinillustrated by Khoo Li Ying View sample pages Synopsis Do childhood dreams come true? This is the question asked by the author in The Story of Ms. Poet. It is a story about a girl w...

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The Tessellated Path

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The Tessellated Path

 Set in the background of Singapore's struggle for independence, the narrative explores the notion of predestination. Determined to live a life far removed from that of her mother's and grandmother...

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They Speak Only Our Mother Tongue

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They Speak Only Our Mother Tongue

 “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 a...

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Towards The Blue: Adventures of a City Wimp

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Towards The Blue: Adventures of a City Wimp

  When Mei Ching Tan landed a grant of ten grand, she knew immediately that she could not buy a chocolate factory, so she did what she always dreamt of doing: have the wilderness experience of her ...

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Troublemaker

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Troublemaker

  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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Ubin Dreaming (You've Been Dreaming)

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Ubin Dreaming (You've Been Dreaming)

  Ubin Dreaming, as the title suggests, is in part inspired by the Arvon workshop organised by The Literary Centre and the National Arts Council. It reflects the literary aspirations of a still you...

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Underground and Other Stories

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Underground and Other Stories

  Unforeseen circumstances can have extraordinary effect on people you think you know well, including yourself. What lurks in the recesses of the mind is anyone’s guess. In Underground and Other St...

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Unhomed

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Unhomed

  In the works of the young Singaporean writers in this anthology, the young writers expressed the anxieties of being unhomed on different levels—personal, domestic, societal—and through varying mo...

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Vanishing Point

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Vanishing Point

 • Longlisted for the 2013 Frank O'connor International Short Story Award 3,000 people go missing every year in Singapore. Why do they go missing? What do they leave behind? Felix Cheong’s Vanishin...

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Walking With Singapore: The Workers' Party 60th Anniversary

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Walking With Singapore: The Workers' Party 60th Anniversary

  The Workers’ Party marks its 60th anniversary this year. The party invites readers to know their story, tell them how to do better, and join them to walk the long road of progress and fight the g...

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When The Bough Breaks

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When The Bough Breaks

  Tammy L Wong is devastated by the horror of September 11 2001, and finds herself at a crossroads with her dance career in Singapore. Unable to function in her personal life, she begins obsessing ...

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William Thomas Ellis (TPC 0001): Illustrated Greeting Card

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William Thomas Ellis (TPC 0001): Illustrated Greeting Card

This is a print of an illustration featured in Trackless Paths. The quote reads, "It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” - W. T. Ellis The inside is blank and each card come...

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WITHIN & WITHOUT Singapore in the World; the World in Singapore

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WITHIN & WITHOUT Singapore in the World; the World in Singapore

  2015 was an important year for Singapore Management University (SMU).  It was SMU’s 15th anniversary, and, more importantly, Singapore’s 50th anniversary as an independent nation. The editors fel...

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World War II @ Bukit Brown

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World War II @ Bukit Brown

  This collection of stories, essays and poems looks at the impact of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore in the Second World War (1942-1945) from the perspective of those interred at Bukit Brown ...

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Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes Volume 2 - Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature II

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Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes Volume 2 - Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature II

  Sharing Borders, Volume 2 in the Writing Asia Series, is the most comprehensive account to date of Singaporean and Malaysian literatures in English. Apart from the assessment of single authors, s...

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Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes Volume I - Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature I

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Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes Volume I - Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature I

  Sharing Borders, Volume 1 in the Writing Asia Series, is the most comprehensive account to date of Singaporean and Malaysian literatures in English. Apart from the assessment of single authors, s...

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Yoruba Proverb (TPC 0016): Illustrated Greeting Card

This is a print of an illustration featured in Trackless Paths. It features a gorilla and his offspring in ancient Yoruba attire.  The quote reads,“If we stand tall it is because we stand on the s...

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一首诗的时间 2015

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一首诗的时间 2015

  2015年6月份，新文潮文学社在脸书上举办了“一首诗的时间”网络写诗活动。 “一首诗2015”的编委连续30天，每天准时于凌晨贴上一个主题（与加分题），让诗人按照主题创作一首诗。这本诗集结集收录了诗人对主题的回应，显示了新加坡新一代以华文创作的诗人的作品，其不仅自由而恣意，也展现出众声喧哗的特色。 Co-published by TrendLit and Ethos Books, In ...

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