
When I Was in Uniform…
Description Praise About the Author In this charming and funny book, Suresh recalls his days in the Singapore Armed Forces after being enlisted...
View full detailsThese are the stories of the people who have shaped our community, and in a way, our lives. Whether they've managed groundbreaking achievements, or have sometimes slipped through the cracks in society; each book contains truth, their truth from a certain point of view; but they are definitely filled with life lessons that each of us can learn.
Description Praise About the Author In this charming and funny book, Suresh recalls his days in the Singapore Armed Forces after being enlisted...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Nominated for Singapore Literature Prize 2016, English Non-Fiction Asia’s top female celebrity magician ‘Magic Ba...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Tim writes vividly about his extraordinary life, his journey from the hard work and poverty of the coal mining tow...
View full detailsDescription This title commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Tan Kah Kee Foundation.
Description About the Author “I have noticed, increasingly, that people after the age of 65 or thereabouts begin to experience the fear of deat...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This is a biography of Dr Felicia Wu. Felicia was a scientist with a successful career in cancer research, but wha...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Wang Gungwu, historian of grand themes and broad perspectives, has held positions in universities around th...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Imagine a Singapore in which flat rental was S$50 a month, a plate of noodles cost as little as 20 cents, a...
View full detailsDescription About the Author John (Kay) Corner left home in 1960, aged 19. He would never see his father, E. J. H. Corner, again. Edred John He...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Packed full of riotous high jinx and fascinating personal anecdotes, Lat: My Life and Cartoons introduces a whole ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Sam Leong is one of the most forward-thinking, talked about, celebrated and controversial chefs of his generation....
View full detailsDescription 《磨墨弹情》是一本在新加坡我见我思的生活记录;一个歌者在岁月中边走边唱的人生体悟:有你低迴的感叹,有你畅快的笑声,有你熟悉的左邻右舍,还有一丝丝年少的迷惘与青春的告别! 书中文章主要收集了作者在联合早报的专栏文字,可以看到一个音乐人特有的文字风格。蔡志礼博士为本...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This pair of elegant, slip-cased volumes are devoted to Raffles’ second wife, Sophia (1786-1858), who wrote the fi...
View full detailsDescription 2016年是刘纕英女士逝世四十周年,本书收集她二十九篇有关日本文化及她在东京留学时生活经历的文章出版成书以资纪念。这些文章都曾在《南洋商报》商余版刊登,当时刘纕英受到商报的编辑、已故的连士升先生之邀而撰写。本书还附上二十世纪初两位著名日本作家森欧外与佐藤春夫的生...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Jap...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Subhas Anandan (1947– 2015) was undoubtedly Singapore's best-known crominal lawyer. The Best I Could traces the li...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This collection of occasional reflections is a first by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets. Exploring how...
View full detailsDescription About the Author & Translator Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the tur...
View full detailsDescription 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 ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author On a hot August afternoon in 1811 an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows of...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Author With Foreword by S R Nathan. “A scholar by inclination, a businessman by necessity, a diplomat by duty” those wer...
View full detailsDescription Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But thi...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University. Hailing from Jimei, Fujia...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription Praise ‘I was determined to show the Chinese guerrillas that the British could stand up to anything they could. Communist Lao Lee o...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription Dr Wai-Fah Chen – a Chinese-born American academic and widely recognized structural engineering specialist in the field of mechanic...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Klong Prem prison, Thailand. The “Bangkok Hilton”, where 600 foreigners among the 12,000 inmates of this walled pr...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In this gripping prequel to ‘Escape’, drug smuggler-turned-bestselling author David McMillan starts from the begin...
View full detailsDescription Chin Woon Ping's Hakka Soul chronicles the dreams, ambitions and idiosyncrasies of her family, beginning with the death of her gran...
View full detailsDescription About the Author While the first 30 years of new China's scientific development was a self-reliant era marked by the detonations of...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Subhas Anandan (1947–2015) was Singapore’s the best-known criminal lawyer, having led several landmark cases that ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Two-timing bargirls, suspicious spouses and lesbian lovers—it was all in a day’s work for Bangkok Private Eye Warr...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors Dr. Goh Keng Swee’s extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decis...
View full detailsDescription Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore’s economic growth, Dr Goh’s collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Who would have thought that the Godfather of Singapore Fashion actually suffers from a severe skin condition known...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore’s first Minister for Finance from 1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore’s first ind...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Difference Makers: Stories of Those Who Dared is a different sort of book. It features many big names from corpora...
View full detailsDescription Singapore, 1920s: At the imposing gates of a grand mansion, a young bride from China comes to join a wealthy Teochew family ruled b...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Award winning television actress and host Belinda Lee has travelled the world in the course of her work. The bilin...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Morbidly funny and inspiring, Danielle West's memoir is heart-breakingly honest about her years of angst an...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Editors Look inside the book | Get the E-book Welcome to the wonderful world of Sushi and Tapas. Sample a feast...
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