Memoirs

Description About the Author Sam Leong is one of the most forward-thinking, talked about, celebrated and controversial chefs of his generation....

Description About the Author This pair of elegant, slip-cased volumes are devoted to Raffles’ second wife, Sophia (1786-1858), who wrote the fi...

Description About the Author Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Jap...

Description About the Author Subhas Anandan (1947– 2015) was undoubtedly Singapore's best-known crominal lawyer. The Best I Could traces the li...

Description About the Author This collection of occasional reflections is a first by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets. Exploring how...

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 About the Author This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the foun...

Description About the Author With Foreword by S R Nathan. “A scholar by inclination, a businessman by necessity, a diplomat by duty” those wer...

Description Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But thi...

Description For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee’s case is his enormous con...

Description This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University. Hailing from Jimei, Fujia...

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 Dr Wai-Fah Chen – a Chinese-born American academic and widely recognized structural engineering specialist in the field of mechanic...

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 While the first 30 years of new China's scientific development was a self-reliant era marked by the detonations of...

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 Editors Dr. Goh Keng Swee’s extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decis...

Description Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore’s economic growth, Dr Goh’s collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light...

Description About the Author Over the six-month period from late 2012 to early 2013, Hu Jintao, the President of the People’s Republic of China...

Description In Singapore, SMEs are a vital part of the economy, yet little is known of the many leaders whose vision, acumen and hard work have...

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

Description About the Editors Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore’s first Minister for Finance from 1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore’s first ind...

Description About the Author Difference Makers: Stories of Those Who Dared is a different sort of book. It features many big names from corpora...

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 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 Look inside the book Russel’s career began when one of his photographs made it to the cover of Track & Field News magazi...

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

Description Praise About the Author OUT OF PRINT Look inside the book The Japanese Occupation in Singapore was a part of the theatre of the Asi...

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 About the Author This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays ...

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

Description About the Author A unique individual with a fascinating life story, Ivar Giaever is a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Experime...

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