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Peh Shing Huei is a journalist and author who has written 13 books, including numerous No. 1 bestsellers in Singapore. They include Tall Order and Standing Tall, a pair of biographies on former Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong; Neither Civil Nor Servant: The Philip Yeo Story; The Last Fools: The Eight Immortals of Lee Kuan Yew; The First Fools: B-Sides of Lee Kuan Yew’s A-Team; The Price of Being Fair; and Strictly Business: The Kwek Leng Beng Story. His maiden book, When the Party Ends: China’s Leaps and Stumbles after the Beijing Olympics, won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2016. It offers an on-the-ground look at China and was cited in The New York Times, the BBC, the Los Angeles Times, and South China Morning Post among others. In 2024, he authored a children’s book inspired by Singapore’s presidential election, Pineapple, Let’s Roll! His books have sold more than 100,000 copies. He was a news editor and China bureau chief at The Straits Times, and read politics at Columbia University in New York and the National University of Singapore.

Quek Hong Shin is a Singaporean freelance author and illustrator whose works include picture books such as The Amazing Sarong, Universe of Feelings, and Chou Chou. His titles were nominated twice for The Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award. The Incredible Basket, published by Epigram Books, won Best Children’s Book at the 2019 Singapore Book Awards. Grandma’s Tiger, written by Alan John and illustrated by Hong Shin is on The White Ravens 2023, an international recommendation list of children’s literature. In 2024, he illustrated a bestselling children’s book based on Singapore’s presidential election, Pineapple, Let’s Roll!