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What Gives Us Our Names

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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. He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the on...

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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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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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Get a complimentary postcard with every purchase only at Book Bar and Kinokuniya! (while stocks last) 📚 What has Gus been up to? Our beloved tiger is back in this prequel to Afternoon Tea at Raffle...

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Nine Yard Sarees: a short story cycle

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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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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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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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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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  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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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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  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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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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  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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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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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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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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  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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  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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Memorandum

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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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  “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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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 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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  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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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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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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These Foolish Things & Other Stories

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These Foolish Things & Other Stories

 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Saint

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  MAN: I won’t tell. I swear I won’t tell.But I need to see my wife today. It’s urgent.A matter of life and death. GUARD:It always is. 1964. Saint John’s Island. A room in the detention centre. Two...

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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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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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