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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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  • The Earth In Our Bones

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    Description About the Author “If you do not love your body, then who?” Marc Nair in The Earth in Our Bones – his eleventh collection – presents...

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  • Sold out

    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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  • 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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  • Western Etiquette

    Western Etiquette

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    Description About the Author Western Etiquette covers the essential of presenting oneself, from issuing and replying to formal invitations, dea...

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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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  • Written Country - Localbooks.sg

    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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  • 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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  • Who Are You My Country? - Localbooks.sg

    Who Are You My Country?

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    Description From the 1930s to 1965, discussions about modernisation, race and civic responsibility were as common as they are today. The youth ...

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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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  • The Changi Murals

    The Changi Murals

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    Description Praise About the Author The Changi Murals are a priceless part of our war heritage, holding deep emotional value, not just for ex-p...

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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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  • 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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  • Standing in the Corner

    Standing in the Corner

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    Description About the Poet Does the word “childhood” call up mushy sentiments and nostalgic memories where time has given a rosy glow to what h...

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  • Stand Alone

    Stand Alone

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    Description Praise About the Author A thought-provoking and sometimes startling anthology which explores issues challenging Singaporeans: ident...

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  • Soya & Spice Cookbook

    Soya & Spice Cookbook

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    Description Praise About the Author The famous street food and home cooking of Singapore is presented in a unique way in this cookbook. Jo Mari...

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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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  • Sing a Song of Mankind

    Sing a Song of Mankind

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    Description About the Poet From the author’s Introductory Note: “In the 1960s, love songs turned to songs of protest and youth the world over i...

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  • Short Circuits

    Short Circuits

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    Description About the Author This collection of occasional reflections is a first by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets. Exploring how...

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  • Robert Kuok

    S$46.64

    Description Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But thi...

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