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    going home

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    Praise About the Poet "As a sequence, going home unfolds with a mixture of astonishing technical assurance and intense personal and physical ...

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  • Anything but Human

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    Description Praise About the Author “The land is furrowed deep with worry. The angsana trees are turning orange with pain.” This collection em...

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  • Stranger To Myself

    Stranger To Myself

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    Description About the Author Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Non-Fiction Title The sacrifices of migrant workers are written in ever...

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  • Becoming Nonya: A Memoir

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    Description About the Author What is Peranakan? Who is a Nonya? The author Katherine’s Peranakan roots can be traced back five or more generati...

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  • Soul's Festival

    Soul's Festival

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    Description About the Poet This collection brings together in one volume, the author’s first four volumes of poetry which have long been out of...

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    Our Favourite Recipes

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

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  • Daily Nonya Dishes

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    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...

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  • The Babas

    The Babas

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    Description This fourth edition of the social history of the Babas and Nonya makes the seminal work by Felix Chia available again after being l...

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    Written Country

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    Description About the Editor Written Country intriguingly reconstructs the history of modern Singapore through fifty defining moments from the ...

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  • This Floating World

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    Description About the Author More haikus by popular demand from Singapore's bestselling poet. In this bumper volume of 392 haikus, Gwee commen...

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  • Twin Cities

    Twin Cities

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    Description Praise About the Editors The twin cinema, created by Singapore poet Yeow Kai Chai, is a rigid, yet spectacular poetic form that mix...

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  • When the Lights Went Off

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    Description Praise About the Poet As the poet navigates through middle age, beset by questions on ageing, love and loss, and the incipient awar...

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    Little Pioneers

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

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  • Wine with Asian Food

    Wine with Asian Food

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    Description The definitive guide to pairing wine with Asian food, this book presents a systematic approach you can use to make matches with pan...

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  • Mum’s Classics Revived

    Mum’s Classics Revived

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    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...

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  • Midnight Fisherman

    Midnight Fisherman

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    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...

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  • Chinese Etiquette - Localbooks.sg

    Chinese Etiquette

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

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