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Description About the Author Interview Look inside the book Get the E-book on Amazon, Google Play or Kobo    Listen to the audiobook Singapore’...

Description About the Editor As Lee Kuan Yew and his Old Guard founding leaders attempted to shape an improbable nation from a tropical island ...

Description About the Illustrators Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2022 (Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title) Look inside the book In th...

Description About the Editor Featured in The Straits Times: [24 Oct 2025] Secret notes, declassified documents: Exhibition on S’pore’s indepen...

Description This book is one of the few books written in English on Chaozhou culture and history. It compiles information from Chinese and Engl...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator Look inside the book Shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2016 - Best Non-Fiction TitleSho...

Description About the Author Singapore: A Biography takes you there - those critical moments in the island's past, as captured through the pers...

Description About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book Sang Nila Utama saw a lion…or did he? Come and experience the untold sid...

Description Photographer Steve Golden set off to find Singapore’s remaining heritage shops—family run businesses that are multi-generational an...

Description About the Authors From January 2021, author Woon Tai Ho started to meet PN Balji for breakfast every Monday morning. What began as ...

Description About the Author The history of Asia can be told through its great port cities: Guangzhou (Canton), Shanghai, Nagasaki, Basra, Aden...

Description About the Author Singapore through 19th Century Photographs is a comprehensive photographic record of Singapore from the early 1840...

Description Now released in a new, convenient and handy size, Over Singapore: 50 Years Ago is a view of old Singapore from a new angle. Many of...

Description About the Editor The social context of Singapore is changing rapidly, and understanding how people think, feel and behave in variou...

Description Introduction by Lai Chee Kien This long-awaited new edition of the classic reference on the changing landscapes of Singapore, which...

Description About the Author Dr Goh Keng Swee’s public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding member of Singapore’s ruling poli...

Description A History Of Money In Singapore covers the history of money in Singapore from pre-colonial times to the present day, narrating the ...

Description About the Authors A selection of topographic prints of places such as the harbour, Singapore River, Fort Canning Hill, as well as p...

Description About the Authors Place names tell us much about a country — its history, its landscape, its people, its aspirations, its self-ima...

Description Praise About the Author Ink and Influence: An OB Markers Sequel is media veteran Cheong Yip Seng's account of Singapore's dramatic ...

Description About the Author Read a sample chapter Since 1819, more than 6,200 place (street and village) names divided into more than 3,900 na...

Description About the Author C.M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was publish...

Description Mr Lee Kuan Yew described Hard Truths as his all-time "favourite" book. He stayed in the public eye for 60 years - as the revolutio...

Description About the Author From private meetings in living rooms in the 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campai...

About the Author This new book by Artist and Illustrator Lorette. E Roberts is a pictorial travelogue of her sketches, comments and paintings o...

Description About the Authors This casebook is a unique resource, offering never before documented insights into the practices and principles o...

Description Praise About the Author Singapore is renowned for the delightful cuisines that can be found in its hawker centres. Travellers heral...

Description Wartime Kitchen: Food And Eating In Singapore (1942-1950) examines the experience of people during the period following the fall of...

Description This is a volume of collected stories and vignettes of the extended Hochstadt Clan of Singapore. Singapore’s Hochstadt family was e...

Description About the Author One of the pivotal figures in the modern history of Southeast Asia, Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015. ...

Description A General History of the Chinese in Singapore documents over 700 years of Chinese history in Singapore, from Chinese presence in th...

Description Praise About the Author When Singapore declared independence in 1965, it faced the monumental task of building a military from scra...

Description About the Author The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world...

Description About the Author Written by author and speaker Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung delves into the social history of Aukang and Punggol...

Description Contents Singapore and India established diplomatic relations in August 1965. However, their ties date as far back as the 10th cent...

Description About the Author Immediately recognizable by their hong tou jin or red headscarves, Singapore's Samsui women-immigrants from the Sa...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title To the generation of Singapore resi...

Description About the Author Gedung Kuning or the Yellow Mansion was home to the family of Haji Yusoff 'Tali Pinggang' from 1912 to 1999. It wa...

Description About the Author When a child steps outside his ordinary world and travels to a foreign city or country, an adventure awaits. In Fi...

Description The branding of Singapore International Airlines with the image of a beautiful, petite and servile 'Oriental' woman dressed in figu...

Description About the Author The Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 is one of the more heavily studied military campaigns in World Wa...

Description Batik: Makers and Wearers explores the rich history and culture of batik and batik making, from its traditional roots to contempora...

Description About the Author In this new expanded Bicentennial edition of Travellers' Tales, more than 80 visitors from the past provide reader...

Description About the Author This collection of 328 photographs shows the rhythm of daily life in Singapore between 1959 and 1965 – the pivotal...

Description Praise About the Author In this wonderfully detailed narrative, Daryl Yeap brings us the fascinating story of Hui-lan, Ida and Lucy...

Description About the Author The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Sing...

Description Praise About the Authors Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected bus...