Fiction

Winner of the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize "Really enjoyed delving into the depths of Malaysia through this story. It's a very ambitious novel....

Currently taking preorders for this title, orders for this book are expected to be fulfilled by end October 2020. – Finalist for the 2020 Epigram B...

“A vivid, thoroughly-researched account of a moment in time when everything seemed up for grabs. When youthful idealism is brought crashing down by...

"What I do appreciate about The Java Enigma is the deft way Erni has woven her scholarly knowledge of the region's complex web of trade cultural an...

Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones's Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving one's thirties i...

Stephanie Ye Writers and cats have long enjoyed a special affinity, unsurprisingly since both spend much time sitting around and judging people. D...

When her husband dies in the year 2000, Wang Di is forced into the solitary life of a widow in modern Singapore. But this new silence brings with i...

Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeShortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2017 (Best Fiction Title)Shortlisted for the Popular Re...

Synopsis About the Author Praise In 1971, teenaged Amrit disappears from her house in the middle of the night. Although her absence is brief, s...

“Densely written, erotic and poetic, with unexpected twists and turns, Cyril's narrative provides a journey into consciousness by the unconscious; ...

Pauline Loh Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play SynopsisProme has taken over the popular Leopop group Lion Legends a...

A time-travelling thriller combining the struggles from before and after. Bukit Brown follows the gripping journey of Ji-won, lonely and lost in mo...

Suffian Hakim Shorlisted for the 2020 Singapore Book Awards (Best Literary Work) Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Pla...

“Barrie Sherwood has created some truly memorable characters who act as a reflecting pond to our own hopes and insecurities.”—Tash Aw, critically a...

The day nine-year-old San San and her twelve-year-old brother, Ah Liam, discover their grandmother taking a hammer to a framed portrait of Chairman...

A sudden invasion by a powerful demon threatens ancient Southeast Asia and the whole world. Dev, a mythical and immortal being from the island of T...

About the Book About the Authors Praise Currently taking preorders for this title, orders for this book are expected to be fulfilled by end O...

Lee Jing Jing The residents of Block 204 have a few months before their building is torn down, before they are scattered throughout the island in...

Something made me look from the amahs to the frangipani tree in the corner. And there she was – Ying. I shivered. Was my fever making me imagine th...

Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh What happens after a country splits apart? Forty-seven years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two cou...

Velouria is a seminal collection of microfiction. Daren Shiau, better known as a novelist and a poet, experimented with flash fiction in between le...

Tammy Ho Lai-Ming's second poetry collection Too Too Too Too is sensual, imaginative, narrative-driven and political. Her poetic voice is at once u...

A housewife turns into a vending machine. Zombies are coming for tea. An unnamed narrator dreams of a cat. The Woman Who Turned Into A Vending Mach...

The Nomad Principle is a collection of poems based on comings and goings, and considers how physical and emotional distances map themselves on the ...

The Ideology is a magazine that seeks to critique capitalism and address modern anxieties regarding loneliness and isolation. The original aim for ...

A girl who nearly meets with death while on board a plane from Paris to Marrakech; a boy who fills her arms with paper animals under the open skies...

Three specially selected school plays by seasoned theatre practitioner Verena Tay, including the award-winning The Car. These three plays tap into ...

The Billion Shop was a shop near my office that sold paper money and other artefacts for ethnic Chinese people to burn as offerings to their dead. ...

Singapore Poetry Writing Month, or as we affectionately call it, SingPoWriMo. Write one poem a day for thirty days in the cruel month of April: th...

Longing, familiarity and hope fill the pages of this new edition of Madeleine Thien's collection of stories, which explore the subtle dimensions of...

When physical spaces make way for development, we risk historical amnesia. A place evokes a sense of belonging. It sustains our memory of who we ar...

poems for the sound of the sky before thunder is a collection that tiptoes the infinitely blurred lines between hurting, hoping & healing. It s...

Pantomime is a homily for the weary social actor, seeking a place of shelter. These poems meander through the performative in society, sieving thro...

Everyday objects surround us, the unconditional keepers of confessions and secrets. They are with us in those private moments when we think we are ...

My Lot is a Sky is an anthology of poetry by Asian women. Named after a poem by Forough Farrokhzad, an influential Iranian writer and filmmaker, th...

Miho entertains you with various forms of poetry she follows or invents. In seven poems from the first section, the poet breaks an ordinary day in...

Mother of All Questions is Grace Chia's third poetry collection about womanhood exploring what home means, how personal identities intersect and th...

Our memories are not entirely ours, each is a patch handed to us, shaped with hands that are both ours and not. Together, they form a patchwork qu...

footnotes on falling  is a collection of 44 poems about sub-optimal life choices. the poems constantly laugh at themselves because they are polite...

BEEF is Nurul Amillin Hussain's debut collection of poetry. Consisting of 20 poems written over a decade, this book traces time through fresh explo...

In a world inundated by all kinds of texts that can be scanned almost as soon as they’re produced, and that as quickly shimmer away into oblivion,...

In this issue, we want to explore what it means to move and to be moved — across time, space, worlds, and circumstances. Why do people move? How d...

Afterimage: an image that continues to appear even after the original has ceased. Werner Kho’s debut poetry collection is both personal and yet un...

This volume of selected poems surveys Alvin Pang's oeuvre over the past two decades, and includes significant new, previously unpublished material...

Eleven writers from the Philippines and nine from Singapore were connected via Google Docs and a pining for “the composition of alternatives, othe...

Synopsis About the Author About the Illustrator Timid artist Nadia is in awe of her new teammate. Priya’s a gamer, she’s smart, and she knows ...

This new poetry collection stands as a record of a friendship between two artists formed in the shadow of illness and mortality. Using the renga a...

In this book, you’ll find the annotated scripts of two acclaimed lecture performances written by Ng Yi-Sheng, exploring forgotten chapters of Singa...