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Take your pick from our selection of non-fiction titles. These include biographies, memoirs, historical essays, books for foodies, self-help books, books about politics, sociology, geography, and much more.
  • The Best I Could - Localbooks.sg
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    The Best I Could

    S$29.90

    Description About the Author Subhas Anandan (1947– 2015) was undoubtedly Singapore's best-known crominal lawyer. The Best I Could traces the li...

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  • Robert Kuok: A Memoir

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    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...

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  • Tan Siak Kew

    Tan Siak Kew

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

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  • Short Circuits

    Short Circuits

    S$18.00

    Description About the Author This collection of occasional reflections is a first by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets. Exploring how...

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  • Tan Kah-Kee

    Tan Kah-Kee

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    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...

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  • Tan Lark Sye

    Tan Lark Sye

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    Description This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University. Hailing from Jimei, Fujia...

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  • S Rajaratnam on Singapore

    S Rajaratnam on Singapore

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    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...

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  • Pai Naa
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    Pai Naa

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

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  • Out of the Harbour - Localbooks.sg
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    Out of the Harbour

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    Description About the Author What will you do if you are standing at a crossroad in life and God calls you to leave familiar surroundings for a...

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  • My Life's Journey

    My Life's Journey

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

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  • Hakka Soul

    Hakka Soul

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    Description Chin Woon Ping's Hakka Soul chronicles the dreams, ambitions and idiosyncrasies of her family, beginning with the death of her gran...

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  • Escape

    Escape

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

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  • Escape the Past

    Escape the Past

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

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  • Life on the Cusp

    Life on the Cusp

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    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...

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  • It's Easy to Cry - Localbooks.sg
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    It's Easy to Cry

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    Description About the Author Subhas Anandan (1947–2015) was Singapore’s the best-known criminal lawyer, having led several landmark cases that ...

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  • Difference Makers

    Difference Makers

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

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  • A River Called Beautiful

    A River Called Beautiful

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    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...

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  • Goodbye My Kampong!

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

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  • Urban Pumpkin

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    Y. P. Chee It may be said that the pumpkin is nature's glorious gift. The size of this vegetable fruit can be enormous growing to a size much large...

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    GE2020 Bundle

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    PAP v. PAP GE2020: Fair or Foul? About the Authors The 2020 General Election results have raised expectations that Singapore will transition t...

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  • lives and times of hrh

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    Herman Hochstadt, or hrh as he is better known, joined the civil service in 1959, moving to the position of secretary to Lee Kuan Yew’s Prime Minis...

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