Fiction

Praise About the Author These stories are told with a lucid economy of style and a singular depth of understanding. They bear witness in the wa...

Description About the Author It is 1924, and the British rule Malaya. Guy is a colonial administrator in charge of Kluanak, a remote district d...

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

Description Praise About the Author The acclaimed international bestseller now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Mic...

Description Murder in the first degree… solicitation of murder… malicious bodily dismemberment… theft of a national treasure… illegal disposal ...

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 is the first volume in a sweeping saga of historical fiction that spans the first 100 years of Singapore. Fea...

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 This book tells of the inspirational story of Hua Mulan, the legendary Chinese female warrior who pledges to fight for her family a...

Description About the Author A new novel by the author of the young adult trilogy, Raising Arcadia Poised to be 2020's We Were Liars Clever, ...

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 Many men dream of running away to a tropical island and living surrounded by beauty and exotic exuberance. Walter ...

Description About the Author The novel is set in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, against a backdrop of political turmoil and social changes. Married to weal...

Description OUT OF PRINTThis book unveils some of the mysteries of old Singapore - the legendary rajahs that ruled the island, the patriotism a...

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 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 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 In the fourth installment of the award-winning Kain Songket Mysteries detective series set in east coast Malaysia,...

Description About the Author Young, western and single, Sara arrives in Singapore on a magazine assignment to detail the long-held attraction b...

Description About the Author Nazi Goreng is a disturbing story of one young Malay man’s coming-of-age in the big city and offers a stunning por...

Description About the Author This volume marks the recovery and first combined publication of the stories of Arthur Yap, one of Singapore's mos...

Description About the Playwright A Necessary Resource is the much-awaited guide to Off Centre, one of Singapore's most celebrated plays. This r...

Description Praise About the Playwright Off Centre is The Necessary Stage’s landmark play in the history of Singapore theatre. First staged to ...

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 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...

Description About the Author Two audacious women; one remarkable man … When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London t...

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 About the Author Princess Play was shortlisted for the Popular–The Star Readers’ Choice Awards 2014 in Malaysia. In Volume 2 of the...

Description About the Author When a foreign worker is found dead in a Singapore back street, few people care. But then another victim turns up,...

Description About the Author It is the First World War and the Flashmanesque German naval reserve captain, Julius Lauterbach, is a prisoner of ...

Description Ryan is looking forward to a field trip to the Lee Kong Chian museum. But at the back of his mind is a the mysterious note with a c...

Description About the Poet Paul Tan’s fourth collection shuttles between two metropolises. In Tokyo, the new and the picturesque compete with t...

Description About the Author Shadow Play won Best Debut Novel at the 2012 SBPA Book Awards in Singapore and was shortlisted for the Popular–The...

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...

Description About the Author Singapore/Malaya, 1892: Chief Detective Inspector David Hawksworth, orphaned, middle-aged and gimlet-eyed, travels...

Description About the Author Sister Swing chronicles the growing up years of three sisters. It follows their transplant from a relatively shelt...

Description About the Author Not many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel S...

Description About the Author Tiger spirits prowl Kampong Penambang in the third novel of the award-winning Kain Songket Mysteries detective ser...

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...

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

Description About the Author Gardens are magical places — images of Nature and Culture, models of paradise, spaces where plants live in war and...

Description About the Author Crimes are few and far between in the city-state of Singapore and the crimes that do occur are usually solved quic...

Description About the Author In the fourth and final volume of the The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is the English concubine. Her love af...

Description About the Author In Awakening, Rox awoke four years ago without a single memory of who she was or where she came from, and with the...

Description About the Author Dutch expat Julia de Rijck uses husband Paul's telescope to spy on Dave across the pool in their luxury Singapore ...

Description About the Author Jasmine Lian left Malaysia behind when she was eighteen and won a place at Oxford. Since then she’s led a golden l...

Description About the Author The Flight of the Swans is a rich and fascinating family saga set in British India and Malaya. Cursed, and with bl...