Fiction

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 The War is over, the Union Jack flies again over the Municipal Building. Life has come full circle. Or has it? The...

Description About the Author Arthur Yap published four major collections of poetry: only lines (1971), commonplace (1977), down the line (1980)...

Description About the Author Prolific writer Colin Cheong brings together three classic novellas and 23 short stories in this first-ever collec...

Description About the Author Cambodia is at war with itself, forcing thousands of its people to flee to the refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian...

Description About the Author This book consists of three celebrated short story collections and an early novel, each reflecting Lim's prowess a...

Description About the Author Terumbu is a love story set in mid 19th century Singapore, of a young Riau pirate and the daughter of a penghulu, ...

Description Praise About the Author A dark, provocative novel set in a world on the verge of a health-induced breakdown, Suicide Club tells the...

Description About the Author The Street of the small night market, a teeming little Chinatown alley. The strays of the city cramp into into ts ...

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

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

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

Description About the Author Singapore/Malaya, 1890s: A cholera epidemic breaks out in Singapore’s congested Chinatown, and Detective Inspector...

Description About the Authors Singapore Love Stories is a vibrant collection of seventeen stories that delves into the diverse love lives of Si...

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

Description About the Author "Though I rarely had occasion to use it, I know the word and its implications well. It was truly a Southeast Asian...

Description Praise About the Author Holding the child in the crook of her arm, her mother stood up and walked towards the river. ‘Where are you...

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

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 Out of a silent harvest, a scorched Maekung valley, comes the stirring story of Jinda, a courageous young Thai gir...

Description About the Author This collection of 26 short stories represents the prizewinning entries of the annual Asiaweek short story competi...

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 Sometimes scoring isn't the only thing when you're a striker, as top tier footballer, Scott, has found out. He's a...

Description Praise About the Author 2003, Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, o...

Description Praise About the Playwright The Necessary Stage has been at the forefront of youth arts education since 1992. In 20 years, the comp...

Description About the Author In People of the Pear Tree, Rex Shelley weaves two love stories of Eurasians in the torrid, tropical heat again th...

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

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

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 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...

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 Praise About the Playwright Student’s Edition includes resource notes Off Centre was first staged by The Necessary Stage in 1993, u...

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 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 Author Nights of the Dark Moon is a collection of 13 dark folktales compiled from around Asia, with two bonus stories fro...

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

Description About the Author Hours after agreeing to marry How Kum Menon, Vanita Sundram is murdered, stabbed while asleep in her fiance's arms...

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 Poet A collection of poems written by Heng Siok Tian. Her poems have been anthologised in Moving Worlds, Fifty on 50, Tum...