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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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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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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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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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Cooling-Off Day

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 • 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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Corridor: 12 Short Stories

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Corridor: 12 Short Stories

 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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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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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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Collected Plays Three

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Collected Plays Three

  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 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 agai...

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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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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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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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Hook and Eye: Stories from the Margins

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Hook and Eye: Stories from the Margins

“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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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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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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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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The Impermanence of Lilies

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The Impermanence of Lilies

  The captain of the Titanic went down with his ship on 15 April, 1912. But thoughts have power, and those who endure in the stories of the living are said to continue to roam the world after their...

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Telltale: 11 Stories

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 • 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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Blood Collected Stories

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gone Case

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  A touching yet unsentimental story about growing up in Singapore seen through the eyes of Yong, a 12-year-old, who experiences the paradoxes of life even if he doesn’t always understand everythin...

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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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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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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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Ah... The Fragrance of Durians

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  “...if you had done it alone, it might not have been that serious. But still, skinny-dipping is taboo in our society. For Christ’s sake, do it in the privacy of your bathroom if you want to expos...

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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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Shezlez the Self-Proclaimed

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  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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3

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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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Sampan

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The author grew up in a house with a garden that had many tropical fruit trees. The garden was always alive with birds chirping in the day and crickets screeching at night. Her family even had the ...

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Payoh

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Payoh

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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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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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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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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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...

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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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Tales of Two Cities

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Tales of Two Cities

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 the home cities: ...

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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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Passages: Stories of Unspoken Journeys

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Passages: Stories of Unspoken Journeys

View sample pages. Every year, between 2011 and 2013, the Singapore Writers Festival invited eight Singapore writers to embark on a sobering journey – to meet with a segment of Singapore’s populati...

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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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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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Off Centre

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This edition of the book is no longer in print. Ethos Books does not sell the GCE 'O' level text version of Off Centre. For purchases of the schools/academic version of the book, please contact The...

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