Non-Fiction

Description About the Author Go on an exciting adventure through Singapore’s most iconic attractions with this colouring book for kids! From th...

Description About the Author Go on an exciting adventure through Singapore’s most iconic attractions with this colouring book for kids! From th...

Description Articles by SilverStreak, Storm-Asia and Johor Kaki Featured in tabla! and Vasantham News! Excerpt from tabla! (22 March 2024):“Ra...

Description Praise About the Authors Hong Bao's father is the biggest hippo in the clan. Her entire family is heavily built, with rounded trunk...

Description About the Editor Often serving as an important node through which West Asian and South Asian maritime trade with China were maintai...

Description Articles by The Straits Times and Asian Leisure Business This book chronicles the country's sporting transformation from the late 1...

Description This book is a detailed and comprehensive exploration of the development of sport in Singapore in the colonial period, from the ear...

Description President Tharman officiates book launch ‘Sport in Singapore: Visions for Change’ Speech by Mr Edwin Tong, Minister for Culture, Co...

Description About the Author In this semi-autobiographical book, Architect/Academic/Artist/Writer Robert Powell recounts his 40-year Odyssey in...

Description About the Editors Millennials or Generation Y—those born between 1981 and 1996—represent the population cohort who are moving into ...

Description About the Author This paper discusses Chinese President Xi Jinping’s flagship global initiatives’ normative implications for the wo...

Description About the Authors After more than a decade of deliberations, ASEAN leaders agreed on 11 November 2022 in principle to admit Timor-L...

Description Praise About the Editors For far too long, Southeast Asia has been treated as a static backdrop for the exploits and discoveries of...

Description About the Editor Modern Singapore is the city in a garden, a biophilic and highly managed urban space that is home to a variety of ...

Description When dementia takes hold, is it possible to navigate between forgetting and letting go to find love and reconciliation? Through ane...

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 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 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 The hawker centre is an integral part of Singapore's urban landscape. As they are now easily found all around the island, many may ...

Description Best Cover Design Finalist for the 2023 Singapore Book Awards In This Together: Singapore’s Covid-19 Story is a dramatic insider ac...

Description A curry puff stall that dates back to the 1950s; homemade desserts sold to make ends meet; immigrants cooking with firewood; itiner...

Description Who was “Fatty Weng”? Which family restaurant is being run by the fourth generation? “Samy’s Curry” got its name from its owner, bu...

English Description Chinese Description Men in White is the inside story of one of the world’s most successful political parties. Narrated in t...

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 This book tells the story of the man who transformed an improbable country into the thriving metropolis it is now. Selected from ov...

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 In this book, Lee draws on that wealth of experience and depth of insight to offer his views on today’s world and what it might loo...

Description Winner of the 2018 Popular Bookstores' Readers Choice Awards, Adult Book Category Finalist for Best Non-Fiction Title at the 2018 S...

Description About the Author Essays on Singapore's Foreign Policy “Diplomacy is not about being nice, polite or agreeable. It is fundamentally ...

Description 3rd Prize of the 2018 Popular Bookstores' Readers Choice Awards, Adult Book Category In this volume of fresh essays and published a...

Description In 2017, Malaysia sprang a surprise on Singapore by filing two applications for revision and interpretation of the International Co...

Description Lee’s Lieutenants: Singapore’s Old Guard was a national non-fiction bestseller when it was first published in 1999. Now this semina...

Description Professor S. Jayakumar, a former minister, diplomat and law dean, shares his candid views on many facets of Singapore’s governance,...

Description Praise About the Author The Straits Times’ Invest Editor Lorna Tan follows up on the success of her 2018 book, Retire Smart, with M...

Description Praise About the Author How can the social ecosystem transform in the new normal? If a charity is in dire need of cash, should it a...

Description Finalist at the 2022 Popular Readers' Choice Award Which of the following is the best investment that you can ever make? A stock th...

Description With personal message from Joseph Schooling From Kid to King: The Joseph Schooling Story is inspired by Olympic gold medallist Jose...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book Nurture young minds to be nature's guardians with thi...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator In 2008, a 16-year-old swimmer made history by winning Singapore’s first Paralympic gold. Her n...

Description About the Series Emma is writing in her diary on 25 December 1963, after her family’s yearly midnight Christmas party. She recounts...

Description About the Series Hafiz is disappointed because his parents will not be home in time for Hari Raya. He and his siblings decide to co...

Description About the Series The story starts when a little girl called Beverly coming across her mother weeping in the kitchen because a Nonya...

Description About the Series Mei Lin and her mother are decorating the house for Chinese New Year. When Mei Lin’s mother realises that Mei Lin ...

Description About the Series At the start of the book, Vinod is at the market with his Aunt Meera, who is buying vegetables and other items for...

Description My Colouring Book is Ruined! is a story about seeing beyond the inabilities and imagining the possibilities. Written in rhyme and w...

Description About the Series The early structures in Singapore were constructed from locally available materials. After British colonisation, m...