Non-Fiction

Description About the Author & Illustrator Keeping kids clean can be a struggle. With COVID-19, habits like handwashing are even more impo...

Description About the Author How did a young girl who rose from underprivileged circumstances in post-war Singapore become a trailblazer of wom...

Description About the Illustrators Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2022 (Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title) Look inside the book In th...

Description About the Author Around The World In 68 Days is a travelogue with a big difference – not about how to get there, what to see or whe...

Description Praise About the Author Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago it unwillingly became an independent nation, after it wa...

Description About the Editor What would you tell your father if you wrote him a letter? Perhaps what you have always wanted to say, but never c...

About the Book About the Authors A lighthouse on the top of a 25-storey apartment block, a unique rocky area that looks like Guilin in China,...

Description Praise About the Author Soul of Ink: Lim Tze Peng at 100 pays tribute to the remarkable achievement of artistic renaissance at 100....

About the Book About the Author Take a trip around the world and discover the fun and exciting adventures that await you. The world... in the ...

Description About the Author As a leadership consultant, author BH Tan has spent the last few decades working alongside leaders around the wor...

Description Singapore Indian Heritage is the Indian Heritage Centre’s first publication since the centre’s opening in 2015. It comprises essays...

Description (This catalogue is published to document the exhibition Once Upon a Time in Little India held at the Indian Heritage Centre from Oc...

Description Sojourners to Settlers – Tamils in Southeast Asia and Singapore is a 2-volume publication, co-published by the Indian Heritage Cent...

Description This book traces the history of the costume of Peranakan women; specifically, the sarong, kebaya, and baju panjang. The sarong keba...

Description Cheah Hwei-Fe’n examines parallel techniques of embroidery, work with gold thread, lace, and drawn needlework in this profusely ill...

Description Peranakans were quick to exploit the potential of photography when it arrived in Singapore. From ritual spaces to personal albums, ...

Description Wartime Kitchen: Food And Eating In Singapore (1942-1950) examines the experience of people during the period following the fall of...

Description “Don’t be a coward. What are you afraid of? Never mind if people do not take favourably to what you have to share. Just be honest a...

Description This is a volume of collected stories and vignettes of the extended Hochstadt Clan of Singapore. Singapore’s Hochstadt family was e...

Home to more city dwellers than any other region, and the locus of many of the world's most populous metropolitan areas, Asia is moving to centre s...

Description About the Author Some did not expect him to last long as Prime Minister. Few predicted he would succeed in the footsteps of Lee Kua...

Description About the Editor Since 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Acti...

Description Mahadeva, the founding secretary-general of the Singapore National Union of Journalists (SNUJ), suddenly found himself in the news ...

Description This book presents a diverse selection of almost 50 of the rarest and most priceless items in the collection, including the Mao Kun...

Description In 2010, Green Zeng made a return to art-making after a long hiatus. Since then, he has created a variety of original and thought-p...

Description About the Author A unique collection of iconic dishes from the Straits-born community, including Eurasians, Chetti Melakans, Indone...

Description Praise About the Author Tough times don’t last, but tough people do! The recipe for resilience lies in the practice and joy of be...

Description About the Author A riveting look at the fiercely original, intellectually brilliant mind of Singapore’s unofficial Poet-Laureate, E...

Description About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the E-bookHow does one rise above the trauma of child sexual abuse? Sofia Abdullah ...

DescriptionProfessor Chan Heng Chee is the Institute of Policy Studies' 7th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited c...

Description About the Author The evergreen debate over government's involvement in business continues in earnest. Participants straddle all st...

Description About the Author Winner for the 2024 Singapore Book Awards (Best Illustrated, Non-Fiction) Explore Singapore’s identity presented o...

Description About the Author One can truly have it all – myth or fact? Yes, by understanding that life comes in stages. Award-winning broadcas...

Description About the Author Rodney Ee launched his first book of travel anecdotes in 2013 after collecting stories and travel experiences ove...

Description About the Author China’s rise will be long-term punitive for the rest of Asia. Across all aspects of Asian geopolitics and economi...

Description About the Authors A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a school health service was formed to look after the health and hygie...

Description About the Editors Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does...

Description Key Features On 10 July 2020, Singapore held its 18th general elections in history and the 13th since independence in 1965. As in ...

Description The year 2019 marks Singapore's Bicentennial milestone since the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore in 1819. It was in an...

Description About the Author Baba Malay for Everyone – is a language guide for Baba Malay - the Peranakan language. This guide is a complete ...

For most, home is a sanctuary, a safe abode to retreat from the bustle of life. For the last six decades, this is what HDB has provided for million...

Description Contents Singapore and India established diplomatic relations in August 1965. However, their ties date as far back as the 10th cent...

Description Throughout the history of mankind, the rise of societies, whether civilizations, nations, or communities, has been a story of human...

Description Look inside the book陈喜明（Heman Tan），51岁，是名专业厨师、厨艺顾问、陶艺家；也是三项铁人运动员。他15年来不间断的协助弱势群体和进行教会的慈善工作。2018年他正式成立铁饭碗计划（A ProjectIRON Rice Bowl）...

Description Praise About the Authors The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is one of the most successful agreements to g...

Description About the Author Meet Siti Hasmah, a little girl, who wants to be a journalist, in a period when not every girl was sent to school....

Description About the Author Professor Lim Pin, a highly-respected practicing endocrinologist and clinical teacher, played a key role in layi...