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“Dey” is Tamil slang. A polysemic portal into community. It is “hey”, “no”, “yes”; it hails, it invites, it warns, it cajoles, it pleads, it loves. Just like Shivram Gopinath’s Dey: a cross-genre, ...
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Ministry of Moral Panic
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Ministry of Moral Panic
Winner of Best Fiction Title for Singapore Book Awards (2016)Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction (2014)Selected by The Business Times as a Top 10 Singapore book from (1965–2015)Sho...
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The Sound of SCH: A Mental Breakdown, A Life Journey (new edition)
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The Sound of SCH: A Mental Breakdown, A Life Journey (new edition)
Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for English non-fiction. 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 t...
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Kampong Spirit—Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965 (new edition)
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Kampong Spirit—Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965 (new edition)
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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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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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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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What Gives Us Our Names
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. He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the on...
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Delicious Hunger
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Delicious Hunger
Winner of the PEN Translates award 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. From 1976 to 19...
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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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Neverness
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Finalist, Best Literary Work, Singapore Books Awards 2025 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...
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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. “at 26—/ the earthquakes began—// tell me,/ how was...
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womb song
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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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Patient History
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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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This Is What Inequality Looks Like
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Why Palestine?: Reflections From Singapore
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We Are Not The Enemy: The Practice of Advocacy in Singapore
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The Sound of SCH: A Mental Breakdown, A Life Journey (new edition)
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The Sound of SCH: A Mental Breakdown, A Life Journey (new edition)
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Kampong Spirit—Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965 (new edition)
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Ayam Buah Keluak and the Art of Writing: a memoir on living creatively
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Ayam Buah Keluak and the Art of Writing: a memoir on living creatively
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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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Dey
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“Dey” is Tamil slang. A polysemic portal into community. It is “hey”, “no”, “yes”; it hails, it invites, it warns, it cajoles, it pleads, it loves. Just like Shivram Gopinath’s Dey: a cross-genre, ...
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The Sound of SCH: A Mental Breakdown, A Life Journey (new edition)
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The Sound of SCH: A Mental Breakdown, A Life Journey (new edition)
Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for English non-fiction. 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 t...
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Kampong Spirit—Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965 (new edition)
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Kampong Spirit—Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965 (new edition)
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Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry (second edition)
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Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry (second edition)
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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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