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Description Praise About the Author the bright sorrow is always ringing, always ringing, and fading into forgetting In his second book, Jonatha...

Description About the Author This book, which is co-published with the Preservation of Monuments Board, takes a fascinating look into the archi...

Description Praise About the Poet As the poet navigates through middle age, beset by questions on ageing, love and loss, and the incipient awar...

Description Praise About the Author The famous street food and home cooking of Singapore is presented in a unique way in this cookbook. Jo Mari...

Description About the Author The Peranakan or Baba and Nonya culture is the result of intermarriage, from the 15th century, between Chinese imm...

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 Praise About the Author Chun lives in a shophouse on Telok Ayer Street where bullock carts and rickshaws clatter by. Her blissful l...

Description About the Author Chinese Etiquette prevents faux pas by teaching gift-giving, seating arrangements, communal dining and auspicious ...

Description Praise About the Author From the gap of two generations, a young Singaporean poet interrogates the victors, vanquished and victims ...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Young children are naturally afraid of and anxious about unfamiliar places and people. After b...

Description The definitive guide to pairing wine with Asian food, this book presents a systematic approach you can use to make matches with pan...

Description Praise About the Author A thought-provoking and sometimes startling anthology which explores issues challenging Singaporeans: ident...

Description About the Author This cookbook provides the recipes for the classic and forgotten dishes of Penang, and also reveals the rich influ...

Description Terry's mother cooked her way into the hearts of many and won many friends along the way. He also uses his God-given talent generou...

Description About the Author From the mangaka who told his life story in A Drifting Life, and gave you Abandon the Old in Tokyo and The Push Ma...

Description Praise About the Author One Fierce Hour is Alfian Sa’at’s first and breakout work. It was hailed as ‘truly a landmark’ for Singapor...

Description About the Author This book gives easy-to-follow recipes of tasty, everyday dishes from Singapore and Malaysia which were not common...

Description About the Poet Does the word “childhood” call up mushy sentiments and nostalgic memories where time has given a rosy glow to what h...

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

Description About the Poet Paul Tan’s fourth collection shuttles between two metropolises. In Tokyo, the new and the picturesque compete with t...

A penniless American traveller lands a gig as the ragtime pianist of a waterfront saloon and begins a journey filled with drunken sailors, bar figh...

Description About the Author Japanese Etiquette delves in to details from bowing, sitting on tatami, drinking sake from a masu, coping with unf...

Description Through their friendship with plant enthusiast Uncle Kiat, Annemarie, Rosemarie, Edward and Jill discover a strange and exotic plan...

Description About the Author Indian Etiquette cover key aspects of the rich culture, from gift-giving, presenting a garland, eating with finger...

Description Farquhar, Crawford, Cavenagh, Thomson, Anderson, Napier, Fullerton, Henderson, MacRitchie, MacPherson, Outram, Purvis, Spottiswoode...

Description About the Author Get the new cover (2023) here! Winner of Singapore Literature Prize 2010 A Singaporean retires, migrates and then ...

Description About the Poet The fifth volume of poetry by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets carries in addition several hybrid pieces ...

Description About the Author The varied recipes in this book, from Asian to Western and those inspired by each other, are easy to follow yet pr...

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 In 2017, I started my research on the fate of granduncle Silvestr Nemec, a young Czech employed by the Bata Show Company in Singapo...

Description About the Author Gwee Li Sui’s eclectic journal in verse recounts the entire COVID-19 pandemic as experienced in Singapore. Setting...

Description About the Artist “A common trait of all my art works is that they are intricately detailed and tell stories, especially of my child...

Description About the Author “If you do not love your body, then who?” Marc Nair in The Earth in Our Bones – his eleventh collection – presents...

Description About the Poet This is for you, All you bothersome people Who ask about my next book, Ask whether I still draw Or write anymore. Wh...

Description Praise About the Author The Changi Murals are a priceless part of our war heritage, holding deep emotional value, not just for ex-p...

Description About the Poet From the author’s Introductory Note: “In the 1960s, love songs turned to songs of protest and youth the world over i...

Description About the Poet From the poet’s Preface: When love ends, what do you keep? Some autumns ago, I met a remarkable woman and we fell in...

Description Mems collecting water-lilies, bargaining for tropical birds, feasting on turtle steaks, visiting a coffee plantation and nearly fai...

A tuan discovers his cook has included tiger meat in his curry. Sampan boys race down the Singapore River. A gang robs dhobies and make off with sh...

The easy and indulgent life of established colonials shown in full swing. These memoirs of travellers and residents include extracts from the follo...

Description A gun on Fort Canning signals morning call. A long walk on country roads is followed by lolling about the bungalow verandah. At 9 o...

Description About the Poet A collection of poems written by Heng Siok Tian. Her poems have been anthologised in Moving Worlds, Fifty on 50, Tum...

Description Praise About the Author Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territ...

Description About the Author Out of Stock IndefinitelyMalay Etiquette teaches everything from performing a salam, washing before meals. appropr...

Description About the Poet This volume could well be subtitled the social history of Singapore in 120 haiku. There are haiku about MRT breakdow...

Description About the Poet Gwee Li Sui once again shatters expectations from his verse with this gloriously macabre book. Death Wish distils al...

Description About the Author Around the world, Asian chefs are making their mark in the culinary arena with their innovative menus and forward-...

Description About the Author My food memories stem way back to when I was a child where traditions and family hugely influence the way I cook. ...