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Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry (second edition)

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Catching crickets after school, waiting for class to end, playing with lanterns during Mid-Autumn festival, watching the rain and the world go by—these are some of the little things that the poems ...

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What Gives Us Our Names

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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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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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Nine Yard Sarees: a short story cycle

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Nine Yard Sarees: a short story cycle

Winner, Singapore Literature Prize 2024 (Fiction, English) Finalist, Best Literary Work, Singapore Book Awards 2024 - Available in paperback and e-book format. Paperback + E-book bundle available b...

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Winner, Book of the Year & Best Literary Work, Singapore Book Awards 2024 Available in paperback and e-book format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with e...

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Why Palestine?: Reflections From Singapore

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Why Palestine?: Reflections From Singapore

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Potong: To Care/Cut

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Potong: To Care/Cut

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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“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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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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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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  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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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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  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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What Gives Us Our Names

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Delicious Hunger

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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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There are obscure emotions that reside in every one of us, where language cannot reach, because its waters are too deep. A lot was going on in 1979. Most Malay villages were long gone or in their d...

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womb song

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womb song

“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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Patient History

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Patient History

Winner of the poetry category, The Writers' Centre Literary Awards 2024, NUS Available in paperback and e-book format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each...

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dragon.paper.wind. (龙卷风)

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dragon.paper.wind. (龙卷风)

About the Book dragon.paper.wind. (龙卷风) is a poetry collection that explores mixed race, bilingualism and the complexities of living in a society still entrapped within the CMIO model of race. In ...

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Why Palestine?: Reflections From Singapore

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Malayland

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The CAPE Handbook to Advocacy in Singapore

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Ethos Books has partnered with the Community for Advocacy and Political Education (CAPE) to produce The CAPE Handbook to Advocacy in Singapore. Authored by CAPE and produced by Ethos Books, this co...

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On Sundays, We Play

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On Sundays, We Play

Published by: Gantala Press  On Sundays, We Play is a photo art book documenting the fascinating social world of women migrant domestic workers from the Philippines, Indonesia and India, who play v...

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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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17A Keong Saik Road

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17A Keong Saik Road

   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 Chin...

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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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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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Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry (second edition)

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Why Palestine?: Reflections From Singapore

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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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Attunement

Is life hustling you out of tune? As the week roars by, we invite you to a slice of attunement penned lovingly by our authors, friends, and yours truly. Freshly delivered weekly with care. Intimacy guaranteed. Read selected letters below.

Take heart, have courage

Sep 26, 2022

On a trip to Kinokuniya, I chanced upon an interesting book titled Before the coffee gets cold by...

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Fields and Roses

Sep 19, 2022

When I was nine years old, the field behind the coffeeshop we frequented on Sunday afternoons was...

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Badan Khairat: An Important Part Of Growing Up In West Coast

Sep 12, 2022

Malay/Muslim Mutual Benefit Organisations, or better known as badan khairat to my community, have...

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