About Singapore

Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world's number one airline, best airport, and busiest port of trade, but also the world's fourthhighest per capita real incomeThe story of th...

First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, th...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet Singapore is your passport to the most relevant, uptodate advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Shop til you drop along Orchard Road, explore futuristic gardens and a worldclass zoo, and sample some of the best hawker food in Asia all with yo...

This is the first comprehensive study of Singapore's political system and democratic culture with a focus on opposition parties and their role. It discusses the historical roots, up to and including the 2001 General Elections. The discussion is arranged in five parts: The Introduction: Singapore's Political System and Democratic Culture; The Histor...

First in a delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, introducing amateur sleuth SuLin, a local girl stepping in as governess for the Acting Governor of Singapore.1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after Acting Governor ...

Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, ...

Singapore a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this inbetween island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free herself from its stifling traditions; tenyearold Howard seethes at the indignities heaped on his fel...

The author explores all aspects of Singaporean life, taking in the sights, dissecting the culture and illuminating each place and person with his perceptive and witty observations. From 'hard' determined aunties to the materialistic younger generation, from Singlish to kiasuism and from Singaporeans at home to Singaporean abroad, Neil Humphreys tak...

This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie "Aunty" Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's bestloved home cooking restaurantAfter losing her husband, Rosie Lee could easily have become one of Singapore's "tai tai," an idle rich lady devoted to mahjongg and luxury shopping. Instead she threw herself into building a ...

Lee Kuan Yew is Singapore's most influential son but he is not without his critics. He has not flinched from taking them on, even now after almost 60 years in the political fray. Why is Lee so hard on his political opponents Could the People's Action Party ever lose its grip on power Are the younger leaders up to the mark Will growing religiosit...

This is a personal history of a man who, almost singlehandedly, built a great nation from a small island......this is the first textbook in the world on how to build a nation....

Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child.In a neighboring village, seventeenyearold Wang Di is strapped into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel where she is forced into sexual slavery as a "comfort woman...

Winner of Best Fiction Title for Singapore Book Awards 2016 Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction 2014 Longlisted for the Frank O?Connor International Short Story Award 2014 Selected by The Business Times as one of the Top 10 English Singapore books from 1965?2015 Meet an overthehill Pop Yéyé singer with a faulty heart, two conser...

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Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2015Ping, the daughter of Chinatown's Pipa Queen, loves Weng, the voice of the people, but family circumstances drive them apart. Ping is forced to leave suddenly for the USA, where she creates a different life for herself. Many years later, Ping returns to a country transformed by prosperity. Gone are the boa...

When a child steps outside his ordinary world and travels to a foreign city or country, an adventure awaits. In Find and Seek Singapore a small boy arrives in Singapore with his family, willing to explore his new surroundings with an open heart and a spirit of wonder. All senses are activated as we are taken on his travels and discover what is the ...

Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his grand tour by train through Asia. In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal change.The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishe...

Winner of the 2014 Best Young Australian Novelists AwardIn 1971, a teenage girl briefly disappears from her house in the middle of the night, only to return a different person, causing fissures that threaten to fracture her Punjabi Sikh family.As Singapore?s political and social landscapes evolve, the family must cope with shifting attitudes toward...

Shortlisted for the 2017 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeAn ELLE Singapore Recommended ReadIt is 1944 in India and Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to become an engineer, but her parents want a different life for her. As she accepts her fate and marries, religious upheaval is splitting the country and forcing her family to find a new home.In 20...

Sarah is a little girl of 3 years, born to a very large multicultural family. And she loves to visit them all! Some of her family lives in Australia, some live in Malaysia, some live on England she lives in Singapore. Exploring all the amazing countries has let her experience things she would not have been able to in her hometown. But as her view ...

This book is for teenagers from 13 to 83.It is a story about love, lust and lechery, all happening in the pressing space of sixandahalf weeks (but as this is a family book, we shall not say where or how it's pressing).Lee Mui Ee is the Ice Cream Girl. Tom D'Cruz, the Dashing Athletic Hero. Yeo Chung Kai is Mr Outstandingly Average while Sissy So...