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  A HERO SETS SAIL. AN ISLAND IS FOUND. A NATION IS BORN. Early thirteenth century CE. The Srivijaya Empire, considered to be one of the world's greatest maritime forces, has been abruptly left po...

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After the Inquiry

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 Police sergeant Hafiz lies in a coma after a gunshot to the head. The investigation by Internal Affairs uncovered a game of Russian roulette gone wrong, and the case is now closed. But there are ...

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  Chinese naval vessels threaten Philippine patrol boats off the shores of the Philippines… China claims sovereignty over the Spratleys in the South China Sea... China unilaterally establishes an E...

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Cherry Days

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A coming-of-age story set in 1950s Singapore, written with photorealistic clarity. Skinny and his friends grow up in a self-sufficient kampong along an unnamed road. Reading about their lives, a di...

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First Fires

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  Minutes after birth you held my head to your lips and whispered, “Difficulties are fires.” It came unbidden, unplanned. Your mother’s voice speaking through you. Ma would have been horrified. She...

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  Hailed as “the definitive Singaporean novel”, this new edition of Heartland is accompanied by a new preface by author Daren Shiau and a publisher’s foreword that contextualises the novel’s imprin...

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Neverness

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There are obscure emotions that reside in every one of us, where language cannot reach, because its waters are too deep. A lot was going on in 1979. Most Malay villages were long gone or in their d...

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Read Chapter 1 and 2 here. In a writing workshop at Changi Prison, retired professor JG Chan encounters a story written by inmate Alphonsus Goh. ‘Payoh’ tells the adventures of a sulphur-crested c...

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Touch like a pulse. A young man dies by his own hands, and leaves behind a note urging his mother to remember Godzilla’s touch, a reference to her relationship with Natalie Chia in 1970s Singapore....

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  Shezlez the Self-Proclaimed is an absurdist story about a poor man’s ambition to organise his own political party in an unnamed country characterised by moral apathy, poverty and heartless bur...

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  When 7-year-old Anna told a lie to get out of trouble, she didn’t expect her older sister to go missing. Faced with her mother’s wrath and riddled with guilt, Anna tries to make amends as she gra...

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When a Flower Dies

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 What can we recover after a life passes on? A novel about love, forgetting and remembering. Pansy Lim, a Peranakan  girl,  was brought up in a seaside village in colonial Singapore in the 1940s. ...

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A Family Portrait

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  Lin Yang’s debut novel is the pensive, soul-searching journey of protagonist Fan as she unshackles the past of two generations of women to find reconciliation and strength. When Fan, the restless...

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 “In the midway of this mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray gone from the path direct...” When Professor K was asked to attend a conference in Greece, he did not expect the impending j...

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Different Strokes

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  Keith, a reporter has to interview the first person to be diagnosed with AIDS and write a “newsy” story. It was the beginning of a lesson on the social attitudes towards AIDS and its victims in t...

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Island of Silence

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 • Winner of the China Times Million Yuan Literary Prize for the Novel (Jury Prize, 1994) Island of Silence is a mesmerising psychological portrait of evasion. Chen-mian, a young Taiwanese woman wi...

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Light and Its Shadow

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  Light and Its Shadow is the riveting story of Olive and Spider, two women whose lives bridge the 20th century. Mysteries and intricacies from their personal histories intertwine with the culture ...

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My Mother-In-Law's Son

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View sample pages. My Mother-In-Law’s Son centres round a Peranakan woman, Swee Gek, who is in an abusive marriage but is constrained by the limitations of women in her time to take positive actio...

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One Earth

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  Originally titled Satu Bumi in Malay, One Earth is the first English translation of Isa Kamari's prolific works. It is a tragic love story of a young Chinese girl adopted by a Malay family. Spann...

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Shakespeare Can Wait

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  In this thoughtful and vivid novel of a teacher reminiscing on his teaching days at a neighbourhood school in the 1970s, the unnamed protagonist ponders on the essence of education in our schools...

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The Inlet

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 • The Inlet was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize, 2014 (English Fiction category) A young female Chinese national drowns in a private swimming pool in a wealthy enclave on a resort i...

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