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Description About the Author This cookbook provides the recipes for the classic and forgotten dishes of Penang, and also reveals the rich influ...

Description Praise About the Author The first and only account that tells the story from the Sepoy's perspective. The other accounts have the w...

Description About the Author This book is a completely new edition of the out-of-print Methodist Girls’ School centenary publication of 1987. D...

Description About the Poet From the poet’s Preface: When love ends, what do you keep? Some autumns ago, I met a remarkable woman and we fell in...

Description Get a blast of the past! Savour old-time tastes such as the original roadside laksa and check out the hangouts of the good old days...

Description Mems collecting water-lilies, bargaining for tropical birds, feasting on turtle steaks, visiting a coffee plantation and nearly fai...

A tuan discovers his cook has included tiger meat in his curry. Sampan boys race down the Singapore River. A gang robs dhobies and make off with sh...

Description A gun on Fort Canning signals morning call. A long walk on country roads is followed by lolling about the bungalow verandah. At 9 o...

The easy and indulgent life of established colonials shown in full swing. These memoirs of travellers and residents include extracts from the follo...

A penniless American traveller lands a gig as the ragtime pianist of a waterfront saloon and begins a journey filled with drunken sailors, bar figh...

Description About the Author The Peranakan or Baba and Nonya culture is the result of intermarriage, from the 15th century, between Chinese imm...

Description About the Author First published in 1952 and the subject of numerous reprints and editions, this cookbook is an acclaimed classic a...

Description About the Author John (Kay) Corner left home in 1960, aged 19. He would never see his father, E. J. H. Corner, again. Edred John He...

Description Terry's mother cooked her way into the hearts of many and won many friends along the way. He also uses his God-given talent generou...

Description About the Poet A collection of poems written by Heng Siok Tian. Her poems have been anthologised in Moving Worlds, Fifty on 50, Tum...

Description About the Author From the mangaka who told his life story in A Drifting Life, and gave you Abandon the Old in Tokyo and The Push Ma...

Description About the Author A collection of short stories in two groups. “First” relates closely to the Singapore of the 1990s when an old way...

Description Praise About the Author Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territ...

Description About the Author Out of Stock IndefinitelyMalay Etiquette teaches everything from performing a salam, washing before meals. appropr...

Description Praise About the Author Chun lives in a shophouse on Telok Ayer Street where bullock carts and rickshaws clatter by. Her blissful l...

Description About the Author The second book of the new Lit Squad Mysteries series for 8-12 year-old readers. Into the shady world of hackers. ...

Description About the Author The first of the new Lit Squad Mysteries series for 8-12 year-old readers. A haunted house in Katong. A strange SM...

Description About the Author Japanese Etiquette delves in to details from bowing, sitting on tatami, drinking sake from a masu, coping with unf...

Description Through their friendship with plant enthusiast Uncle Kiat, Annemarie, Rosemarie, Edward and Jill discover a strange and exotic plan...

Description About the Poet A collection of poems written by Heng Siok Tian. Her poems have been anthologised in Moving Worlds, Fifty on 50, Tum...

Description About the Author Indian Etiquette cover key aspects of the rich culture, from gift-giving, presenting a garland, eating with finger...

Description About the Poet This volume could well be subtitled the social history of Singapore in 120 haiku. There are haiku about MRT breakdow...

Description Farquhar, Crawford, Cavenagh, Thomson, Anderson, Napier, Fullerton, Henderson, MacRitchie, MacPherson, Outram, Purvis, Spottiswoode...

Description About the Author & Illustrator As children are ready to learn to count, they are also at the age when they begin to be aware of...

Description Food Republic is a generous serving of Singapore's food culture: from the making and eating of food, to the sale and hawking of it,...

Description About the Poet Gwee Li Sui once again shatters expectations from his verse with this gloriously macabre book. Death Wish distils al...

Description About the Author This cookbook gives recipes for the food that Babas and Nonyas of old ate for their breakfast, lunch, dinner and i...

Description About the Author Get the new cover (2023) here! Winner of Singapore Literature Prize 2010 A Singaporean retires, migrates and then ...

Description About the Author Chinese Etiquette prevents faux pas by teaching gift-giving, seating arrangements, communal dining and auspicious ...

Description About the Author Around the world, Asian chefs are making their mark in the culinary arena with their innovative menus and forward-...

Description About the Poet The fifth volume of poetry by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets carries in addition several hybrid pieces ...

Description About the Author This book is the first of its kind in the whole world. The ground-breaking book shows home and professional bakers...

Description How does a nonya use a yam stalk to control the sexual powers of her wayward baba? Why are Baba children never given sugarcane to c...

Description About the Author My food memories stem way back to when I was a child where traditions and family hugely influence the way I cook. ...

Description About the Author The varied recipes in this book, from Asian to Western and those inspired by each other, are easy to follow yet pr...

Description AJ’s father is from Penang, of British and Spanish blood with a touch of Burmese; his mother is of German and Dutch heritage from S...

Description Singapore, 1920s: At the imposing gates of a grand mansion, a young bride from China comes to join a wealthy Teochew family ruled b...

Synopsis Praise Author on YouTube Anil David was used to taking shortcuts. As a child he was a pathological liar. By the time he was 14, he had...