Memoirs

Description About the Interviewer Over sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused...

Description About the Author What is Peranakan? Who is a Nonya? The author Katherine’s Peranakan roots can be traced back five or more generati...

Description Thankful for all the blessings – large and little – that have brought her to this point in her life, Wai Lan was moved to share her...

Description Philip Yeo is unlike any civil servant. He prefers action over talk, cartoons over words and speed over due process. The maverick w...

Description About the Author Sundays with Sumiko is a collection of her most representative columns over the past two decades, exploring family...

Description He was a well-known doctor and professor, and was one of the leading names in obstetrics and gynaecology in Singapore for decades. ...

Description Praise About the Author Routes 2 continues the story of Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1945-75. This book occasionally disrupts th...

Description Praise About the Author and Editor Get a gripping glimpse into the therapy room and most powerful boardrooms in Asia in this first ...

Description Singapore is no stranger to iconic buildings, with a landmark growth of audacious, inspired, and innovative structures. While her i...

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 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 Top Prize at the 2022 Popular Readers' Choice Award Dr Lee Bee Wah, affectionately known as Hua Jie (花姐, Sister Flower in Chinese) ...

Description Dr Lee Wei Ling, the scion of Singapore’s first family, writes about her life as a daughter, doctor and diehard Singaporean. This b...

Description Asking Why is a collection of eclectic speeches and writings by prominent entrepreneur Ho Kwon Ping during his life so far, from sc...

Description In this entertaining and often touching memoir, well-known plastic surgeon Woffles Wu lifts the lid on his early childhood, his gro...

Description In this book, Mr Liew Mun Leong, chairman of the Changi Airport Group and of urban and infrastructure consultancy Surbana Jurong Gr...

Description From a troubling encounter with the Marcos family in the early 1980s to operating in China in the period before and during the Tian...

Description About the Author A lecturer turned banker, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam never expected to become a politician, much less a president. Chall...

Description About the Author “Unfortunately, some important people... such as Tay Seow Huah, had died before interviewers could get to them.” L...

Description About the Author Little Drops: Cherished Children of Singapore’s Past is a compilation of biographies based on historical fact abou...