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

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

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

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

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

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

Description Praise About the Author Winner, Singapore Literature Prize, 2010 Awardee, SEA Write award, 2019 A Singaporean retires, migrates and...

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

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

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. ...

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 AJ’s father is from Penang, of British and Spanish blood with a touch of Burmese; his mother is of German and Dutch heritage from S...

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 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 Author She had, by any standard, an extraordinary life. Even discounting her incarceration by the Japanese military po...

Description About the Author Western Etiquette covers the essential of presenting oneself, from issuing and replying to formal invitations, dea...

Description About the Author This pair of elegant, slip-cased volumes are devoted to Raffles’ second wife, Sophia (1786-1858), who wrote the fi...

Description From the 1930s to 1965, discussions about modernisation, race and civic responsibility were as common as they are today. The youth ...

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

Description Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But thi...

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 About the Author A collection of short stories in two groups. “First” relates closely to the Singapore of the 1990s when an old way...

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

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

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