Memoirs

Description About the Author & Translator Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the tur...

Description About the Author This memoir by Goh Poh Seng tells of his adventures as a young Asian student in the Ireland of the 1950s. Brought ...

Description About the Author On a hot August afternoon in 1811 an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows of...

Description When Mahita was 15, her teacher at Catholic school in Singapore said she could see the devil in her eyes. While growing up, then ra...

Description Get a blast of the past! Savour old-time tastes such as the original roadside laksa and check out the hangouts of the good old days...

Description Praise ‘I was determined to show the Chinese guerrillas that the British could stand up to anything they could. Communist Lao Lee o...

Description About the Author What will you do if you are standing at a crossroad in life and God calls you to leave familiar surroundings for a...

Description About the Author In a world where so many people believe that they cannot go far because they were not born gifted or with a silver...

Description About the Author Klong Prem prison, Thailand. The “Bangkok Hilton”, where 600 foreigners among the 12,000 inmates of this walled pr...

Description About the Author In this gripping prequel to ‘Escape’, drug smuggler-turned-bestselling author David McMillan starts from the begin...

Description Chin Woon Ping's Hakka Soul chronicles the dreams, ambitions and idiosyncrasies of her family, beginning with the death of her gran...

Description About the Author Subhas Anandan (1947–2015) was Singapore’s the best-known criminal lawyer, having led several landmark cases that ...

Description About the Author Two-timing bargirls, suspicious spouses and lesbian lovers—it was all in a day’s work for Bangkok Private Eye Warr...

Description About the Author Who would have thought that the Godfather of Singapore Fashion actually suffers from a severe skin condition known...

Description Singapore, 1920s: At the imposing gates of a grand mansion, a young bride from China comes to join a wealthy Teochew family ruled b...

Description About the Author Award winning television actress and host Belinda Lee has travelled the world in the course of her work. The bilin...

Description Praise About the Author Morbidly funny and inspiring, Danielle West's memoir is heart-breakingly honest about her years of angst an...

Description Praise About the Editors Look inside the book  |   Get the E-book Welcome to the wonderful world of Sushi and Tapas. Sample a feast...

Description Praise About the Author Shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2017 (Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title) Look inside the book Kw...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book The urban legend goes that Morgan Chua’s first political cartoon of Lee Kuan Yew in th...

Description About the Author Translated by Shelly Bryant from You Jin's 1996 memoir [跌碎的彩虹] Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book In this u...

Description Praise About the Author & Editor Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book Fourteen stimulating literary works that shine a new...

Description About the Author Balls Inc. by Val Yap, CEO of PolicyPal (and Forbes “30 Under 30 Asia” in 2017), aims to dismantle the unconscious...

Description Praise About the Author Martin See Tho was 32 when he became a wheel-chair bound victim of Machado Joseph Disease, an incurable deg...

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

Description About the Author A daring biography by one of Singapore’s most prominent entertainment personalities, Dr Loretta Chen, as she share...

Description About the Authors Adventures of 2 Girls traces the journey of two best friends who take a 9-month break from their successful caree...

Description About the Author Glenn Knight was Singapore's first Director of Commercial Affairs and Deputy Public Prosecutor until his illustrio...

Description About the Author This book tells the story of a young man who failed his PSLE examinations, but through sheer determination, persev...

Description About the Author A compellingly-narrated, thrillingly-portrayed account account of an epic motorcycle journey taken in 2014 from Si...

Description Veteran journalist Clement Mesenas looks back on eight eventful days in 1971 when a group of young reporters staged a historic stri...

Description They stood firm on their convictions despite the odds. Some paid a heavy toll for their beliefs - deprivations, long prison terms, ...

Description About the Author 'Chinese New Year 1915 will long be remembered in the Straits Settlements,' write Edwin and Mary Brown in their ex...

Description Praise About the Author Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own p...

Description About the Author A Kite in the Evening Sky is Shaik Kadir’s firsthand account of growing up in a Geylang Serai kampung in the late ...

Description About the Author “The tears ran, hot and salty, down the sides of my face into my ears ... I hurt everywhere ... and my tire was fl...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book A new international phenomenon! Tales of panic buying, fear and irrational behaviour i...

Description About the Author This hilarious new book records the tongue-in-cheek journey of an expat in Singapore, told through vignettes, snap...

Description About the Author Sky Tales – the much anticipated follow up to Captain Lim Khoy Hing’s first bestseller Life in the Skies – is a ne...

Description About the Author When Max West was called to perform his mandatory National Service in the Singapore Armed Forces, he was one of ju...

Description Praise About the Author & Illustrator 🎁Recommended for ages 3 and aboveShortlisted for the 2019 Singapore Book Awards (Best Chi...

Description About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the E-bookHow does one rise above the trauma of child sexual abuse? Sofia Abdullah ...

Description About the Author A riveting look at the fiercely original, intellectually brilliant mind of Singapore’s unofficial Poet-Laureate, E...

Description About the Author Christina’s family has a rich tradition in singing and as a young girl she was inspired to take up lessons, and to...

Description Praise About the Author Where I Was is a rich, entertaining and compelling account of the life of an extraordinary woman. I...

Description Look inside the book戏可以假做，但话要真说!~~一个新加坡电视剧监制的工作札记。戏是假的，梦是虚的，戏是人工的悲欢离合，梦是剧终后留下的虚无缥缈。一场戏，一场梦，缤纷已过，却始终触动心中记忆。《戏梦录》记录了走过的痕迹，也是对所有电视剧制作人...

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 Author It is far more about being attacked than about swimming in shark's lane. An insidious Italian executive chef prec...