Memoirs

Description 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...

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Description Praise About the Author A celebratory portrait of a man who has left an indelible mark on the national literary scene. Robert Yeo ...

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 This title commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Tan Kah Kee Foundation.

Description About the Author Tim writes vividly about his extraordinary life, his journey from the hard work and poverty of the coal mining tow...

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

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 Author Nominated for Singapore Literature Prize 2016, English Non-Fiction  Asia’s top female celebrity magician ‘Magic Ba...

Description Praise About the Author In this charming and funny book, Suresh recalls his days in the Singapore Armed Forces after being enlisted...

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

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 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 The Art of Chua Mia Tee: A Portrait of a Life’s Work is an ambitious and significant publication that – for the fi...

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

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 About the Author It is remarkable that no biography of Tan Kim Seng has been published until now considering that his imprint on 19...

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

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

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

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 Few people have watched the development of today's Singapore as closely as President S.R. Nathan, who celebrated his 90th birthday ...

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...

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 Authors Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723): The First Microbiologist (523 KB) Pasteurizatio...

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 Praise Written by adoptive parents, adoptees, birth parents, and social works, this inspiring collection of true stories provides p...

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

Description 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...

Description About the Author Introducing the life and times of a legend in international aviation—Lim Chin Beng—the man they called Mr SIA. Abs...

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 Praise About the Author Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (English, Creative Nonfiction)Winner of the Readers' Fa...

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 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 Packed full of riotous high jinx and fascinating personal anecdotes, Lat: My Life and Cartoons introduces a whole ...

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 About the Author What matters most in life? Why do we do the things we do? How do we want to be remembered? Those were honest quest...

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