Memoirs

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 C.V. Devan Nair, the son of a rubber plantation clerk, rose from humble beginnings to become an outstanding union leader, a Member ...