Fiction

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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 Poet This is for you, All you bothersome people Who ask about my next book, Ask whether I still draw Or write anymore. Wh...

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

Description About the Poet It feels unkind to reveal a long-held secret of Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems? published in 1988 – the published ...

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

Description About the Author The Haven – a magical place with a kaleidoscopic crowd. A place to lose yourself in. A place to find what you’ve ...

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

Description About the Author In her sixth collection of poetry where the real, virtual and literary mix, Heng Siok Tian travels through lands...

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

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

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

Description Praise About the Author Winner, Singapore Literature Prize, 2010 Awardee, SEA Write award, 2019 A Singaporean retires, migrates and...