Memoirs

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 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 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 Look inside the book Guards Gone Wild! is a memoir of Teck Yong's experiences in the private security industry. Th...

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

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 Authors First detailed account of the life of one of Singapore’s pioneers – a landowner, merchant and philanthropist Viv...

Description About the Author This book is an honest no-holds barred biography. Author Jix Sze starts by sharing about the teenage years of his ...

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 Author On 16 May 2018, after spending two stints in prison totalling eight years behind bars, Anwar Ibrahim was released ...

Description About the Author “I have noticed, increasingly, that people after the age of 65 or thereabouts begin to experience the fear of deat...

Description About the Author A dramatic, compelling account of a SAF pioneer officer's formative years in post-war Singapore. Best known for hi...

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 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 This is a biography of Dr Felicia Wu. Felicia was a scientist with a successful career in cancer research, but wha...

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 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 This autobiography is a record of Cham Tao Soon's life and interactions with many interesting people over the cour...

Description Praise About the Author Chinese version here! I Thought I Knew is a poignant, blow-by-blow account of a leading urologist whose wor...

Description About the Authors This biography documents K. Kesavapany’s journey from the Malayan estates in the late 1930s to his move to Sing...

Synopsis Praise Author on YouTube Anil David was used to taking shortcuts. As a child he was a pathological liar. By the time he was 14, he had...

Description About the Author These are the unpublished stories about the stories that you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years....

Description About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book "It is important not to forget the role of the many people like [Gunn Ch...

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 Look inside the bookGet the E-Book Hokkien Button is no ordinary dog. She was trained as a therapy pet who underst...

Description This book by a pioneer generation civil servant is a fascinating and an engaging account of Singapore's spectacular development fro...

Description About the Author This book is a poignant story of a small-town boy, who stumbled into a lifelong flying career spanning 38 years as...

Description About the Author “I have had nothing bad happen to me except my own doing. I have let this cowardice envelop me, and I can’t shake ...

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 Praise About the Author Winner for the 2020 Singapore Book Awards (Best Non-Fiction) Look inside the bookGet the E-book on Amazon o...

Description Sequel to Josephine Chia’s 2014 Singapore Literature prize-winning book, Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955...

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 About the Author Zubir Said is best known as the composer of Majulah Singapura, the national anthem of Singapore, Semoga Bahagia, t...

Description About the Author Lim Kim San's name is linked inextricably to Singapore's public housing. This is entirely appropriate because he p...

Description About the Author A memoir of Lim Chin Joo, this is a book about his life as a kampong boy growing up against the backdrop of the Se...

Disability is neither strange nor distant. Part autobiography, part reflections of social advocate Cassandra Chiu’s experiences as a person living ...

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...