Memoirs

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

Description He was a well-known doctor and professor, and was one of the leading names in obstetrics and gynaecology in Singapore for decades. ...

Description Every time we use a Singapore bank note, we see his face – the face of Yusof Ishak, the first President of Singapore. But did you k...

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...

Description Abridged from Lee Kuan Yew: A Life in Pictures, this book features private and public pictures of Lee. It includes some new photos ...

Description “Why did I insist on Singaporeans all needing to learn their mother tongue? For the Chinese, why did I insist that they learn Chine...

Description Praise Why did Lee do away with vernacular schools despite violent political resistance?Why did he close Nanyang University?Why sta...

Description Mr Lee Kuan Yew described Hard Truths as his all-time "favourite" book. He stayed in the public eye for 60 years - as the revolutio...

Description About the Author Sundays with Sumiko is a collection of her most representative columns over the past two decades, exploring family...

Description Noor Aishah Mohammad Salim was all of 26 years old when she became Singapore's First Lady in 1959 as the wife of Yusof Ishak, Singa...

Description Philip Yeo is unlike any civil servant. He prefers action over talk, cartoons over words and speed over due process. The maverick w...

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...

Description About the Author "Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A…"  17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung’s growing-up years...

Description Praise About the Editors This is the historical memoir of Dr Poh Soo Kai, a man of medicine and a founder member of the People’s A...

Description About the Authors Once a teenage runaway, S R Nathan rose to become two-term president of prosperous, independent Singapore. In thi...

Description About the Author Dr Goh Keng Swee’s public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding member of Singapore’s ruling poli...

Description Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role ...

Description About the Author Goh Chok Tong was an improbable Prime Minister for an unlikely country. He had neither the connections nor the cun...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book The 1978 Singapore rugby team made history by beating the powerful Kiwis, clinching th...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the bookGet the E-book on Amazon or Google Play    Listen to the audiobook At the turn of the m...

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 & Illustrator 🎁Recommended for ages 3 and aboveShortlisted for the 2019 Singapore Book Awards (Best Chi...

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 About the Author Shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2017 (Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title) Look inside the book Kw...

Description About the Author Look inside the book    |    Get the e-book Translated from Chinese by Shelly Bryant “For many years, I have made ...

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 Praise About the Author Look inside the book  |  Get the E-book Even When She Forgot My Name serves to inspire and educate caregive...

Description About the Author Look inside the book  |   Get the E-book When she was only seven, Yin's mother took her own life. Forty years late...

Description Praise About the Editors Look inside the book  |   Get the E-book Welcome to the wonderful world of Sushi and Tapas. Sample a feast...

Description Look inside the book Iskandar Ismail has dedicated his life to pushing the boundaries and realising the possibilities of Singapore ...

Description Praise About the Author Shortlisted for the Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2015 Look inside the book  |   Get the E-book How do...

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 About the Authors Published in commemoration of PropNex’s 25th anniversary, I Am Not Good Enough is more than a biography or corpo...

Description About the Author The son of Syed Jaafar Albar, known as The Lion of UMNO, an inveterate figure in the nationalist politics of pre- ...

Description About the Author In this part-memoir, part-manifesto, body image, identity and relationship to self come under scrutiny in the micr...

Description Praise About the Author “… these are my stories, but these are also the stories of my friends. Each one of them, being social under...

Description Praise This is the historical memoir of Dr Poh Soo Kai, a medical doctor and a founder member of the People's Action Party. Here he...

Description About the Author This is a story of journeys. It is about my journey through grief and acceptance after I lost my wife to cancer in...