Fiction

Description Love and sex, or perhaps lust to be more accurate, has made many men and women run afoul of the law. When passion and desire take o...

Description About the Playwright Featuring five plays by Cultural Medallion recipient Haresh Sharma, created over a span of two decades, Abuse ...

Description About the Author Set in Thailand in the 1950s, this is the story of a young Englishman’s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess name...

Description About the Author This collection of eight short stories combines Catherine Lim’s sharp powers of observation with her insightful co...

Description A Monsoon Feast comprises seven short stories by renowned writers from Kerala, India and Singapore that provide deep insights on th...

Description About the Author The affair of the planter’s wife running off with her driver had been a burning topic in the British High Commissi...

Description About the Author Brimming with energy, A Leap of Love sparkles with joy and will leave you breathless with the sheer suspense of tr...

Description Praise About the Author A lush, sweeping account of the Black Hole of Calcutta in 1756 Rich storytelling and vividly drawn charact...

Description About the Author In December 1950, the worst riots Singapore had ever seen shut down the town for days, killing 18 people and wound...

Description About the Author This epic novel is set against the backdrop of the Sino-Japanese war, from the time Japan annexed Manchuria in the...

Description About the Author When night falls in Kuala Lumpur, the pleasure-seekers come out. They hunger for the sleaziest indulgences the cit...

Description About the Author "Early in my working life I had discovered that salesmanship consisted not of providing people with what they need...

A direct descendant of Chew Joo Chiat, Philip Chew was born in 1935 and is a pioneer of Singapore in his own way. A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat t...

We love Asian folklore. We grew up listening to Chinese legends, Arab fairy tales, Malay ghost stories and Indian sacred epics, and their fabulous ...

A coming-of-age story set in 1950s Singapore, written with photorealistic clarity. Skinny and his friends grow up in a self-sufficient kampong alon...

Keix wakes up in an underground prison—weak, emaciated, and battling partial memory loss. Her rescuers and long-time friends, Zej and Pod, tell her...

The Rosales House is a contemporary novel about Claire Rosales, a twenty-eightyear old advertising executive in Singapore, who hails from a powerfu...

Description Contributors About the Editor "What would you do if you knew that there was just one month, week or day left of life  as you know...

Synopsis About the Creator Limited edition (only 100 copies available)
Before there was The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, there was the art of...

On one of those nights when the two of us were alone in our cottage, she said to me, “I named my little girl ‘Wan Mei’.You know why?”I looked into ...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book    |    Get the E-Book    |    Listen to the audiobookIn 1971, teenaged Amrit disappea...

Description About the Author You can have the striking cover art of the new 5th-anniversary edition adorn your wall as a poster. This version...

Description Praise About the Authors & Illustrator Winner of the 2021 Singapore Book Awards: Best Young Persons Title🎁Recommended for ages ...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2022Recommended for ages 10 and aboveLook inside the book    | ...

Description About the Author & Illustrator A sudden invasion by a powerful demon threatens ancient Southeast Asia and the whole world. Dev,...

About the Book About the Series Praise About the Author & Illustrator Eleven-year-old Ash doesn’t have much to look forward to: maths tests...

Description About the Author The residents of Block 204 have a few months before their building is torn down, before they are scattered through...

Description About the Series Praise About the Author & Illustrator Timid artist Nadia is in awe of her new teammate. Priya’s a gamer, she’s...

Description About the Poet Edwin Thumboo, one of Singapore’s pioneering literary voices, brings his incisive awareness of socio-cultural histor...

Be warned, mothers should not read these stories to their children, even though they might contain a lonely elf, a talking moon, a butterfly that w...

Description About the Author The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born within the territory ...

Description About the Author Corridor is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbr...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator Raffles Hotel is the best-known, oldest and most elegant hotel in Singapore. But is that all th...

Description About the Author This collection contains the latest works from Cultural Medallion recipient Prof Edwin Thumboo. Of note are the po...

Description Praise About the Author & Illustrator Look inside the book Mr Tino is a 66-year-old sundry store owner, a devoted husband to h...

Description About the Author The truth of her own origins, as well as the deep, dark secret that enveloped the lives of her parents will change...

Description About the Author “Kevin Kwan’s new book is his most decadent yet.” —Entertainment Weekly The iconic author of the bestselling phen...

Description Authors On 15 November 1943, Elizabeth Choy Su-Moi was arrested for her suspected involvement in the anti-Japanese Operation Jaywic...

Description Praise About the Author Finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeGet the E-book    |    Listen to the audiobookEight years ...

Description Praise Book Trailer About the Author Finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Look inside the book    |    Get the E-book...

Description Praise Book Trailer About the Author Finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Look inside the book    |    Get the E-Book ...

Description Praise About the Author & Illustrator 🎁Recommended for ages 8 and above Look inside the book    |    Get the E-book    |    Lis...

Description Praise Book Trailer About the Author *Unsuitable for the Young* Winner of the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeLook inside the book ...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Quek Zhou Ma, a performer who goes by th...

Description Praise About the Editors Featuring new translations of previously untranslated Chinese shortstories, Memorandum maps out seven deca...

How do we understand the history and landscape of our country? In this bicentennial year, Contour charts a lyric cartography of Singapore, taking i...