Shazana Anuar, Sukesy Mattar (editors)Hardback, 106 pages9789819430765 Palestine: Through the Eyes of a Child is a coffee table book, featuring a...
View full detailsClaire Jobert Golnar Servatian (Illustration) Paperback, 20 pages 9786229156292 (And three other stories) As soon as winter began, I prayed for...
View full detailsYasir QadhiHardback, 608 pages9781786078483 Seeking the Path of the Pious Predecessors A comprehensive overview of the most misunderstood movem...
View full detailsRowena HawkinsPaperback, 248 pages9789888904310 Set in 1960s British Colonial Singapore, this warm, witty memoir offers a rare and humorous child...
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View full detailsAlexandra GreenHardback, 272 pages9780500480878 A new take on Southeast Asia’s complex history, expertly told through art objects and cultural ar...
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View full detailsAtta MuhammadPaperback, 192 pages9780755647620 Agency and the Public Sphere in the Late Abbasid Caliphate This book examines the political and ...
View full detailsAbu Abd al-Rahman al-SulamiJason Welle (translation)Paperback, 288 pages9781911141501 Treatises on the Sufi Way is a translation into English of ...
View full detailsMouhanad Khorchide, Klaus von StoschPaperback, 332 pages9781909942967 Unique study of Jesus in the Qur’an by a Christian and a Muslim scholar wri...
View full detailsBanu MushtaqDeepa Bhasthi (Translation), Original language: KannadaPaperback, 192 pages9781916751163 Winner of the International Booker Prize 202...
View full detailsNicholas MirzoeffPaperback, 176 pages9780745351155 To see Palestine is to see the world. Since October 7th 2023, the forces of racial capitalism ...
View full detailsJonathan HaslamPaperback, 368 pages9781804548233 On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an escalation of the Ru...
View full detailsRobert PoyntonPaperback, 136 pages9781914168277 'In conversation, we don't just talk with individuals, we encounter entire worlds.' Conversation ...
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View full detailsEdmund Lim, Tan Zi XiHardback, 32 pages9789810720780 Winner, Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2013 Luke is a little different from other boys...
View full detailsJames Tan, Lesley-Anne, Monica LimPaperback, 232 pages9789815348132 With over 20,000 copies sold, Secrets of Singapore is still a favourite among...
View full detailsSafa SuleimanAnait Semirdzhyan (Illustration)Hardback, 40 pages9781536229424 A heartwarming picture-book debut brings a tradition many thousands ...
View full detailsJ. Samia Mair Paperback 9780860377177 Zak realises, after his misadventures, that it isn’t important what happens; it is his good intentions that...
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Liyana Nurdin, Nurril HirfanaFatimah AzZahraa (Illustration)Hardback, 38 pagesEnglish / Malay Bilingual9789819418688 MISSION: Find the ingredients ...
View full detailsLiyana Nurdin, Nurril HirfanaFatimah AzZahraa (Illustration)Hardback, 38 pagesEnglish / Malay Bilingual9789819418732 MISSION: Using a compass and a...
View full detailsMuzoon Almellehan, Wendy PearlmanPaperback, 288 pages9781984852014 When her family had to flee Syria, 14-year-old Muzoon was told to pack only th...
View full detailsFitzroy Morrissey Paperback, 256 pages 9780755636860 Metaphysics and Sacred History in the Thought of 'Abd al-Karim al-Jili The Sufi thinker 'A...
View full detailsAtta MuhammadPaperback, 192 pages9780755647620 Agency and the Public Sphere in the Late Abbasid Caliphate This book examines the political and ...
View full detailsAbu Abd al-Rahman al-SulamiJason Welle (translation)Paperback, 288 pages9781911141501 Treatises on the Sufi Way is a translation into English of ...
View full detailsAl-Habib Abu Bakr al-Adani bin Ali al-MashhurMuhammad Hamdan Bin Rahmat (translation)Paperback, 44 pages This book is a clear and structured guide ...
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If you put people with common purpose in a room, they become comrades very quickly, especially after trading war stories. With all the reports of closures and downsizings, Singapore's independent bookshops were not having a good year in 2024. We needed to come together, if nothing else, for solidarity and to rebalance our thinking. During the course of the discussion that night, we realised that we needed to cooperate in some way.
Adult Singaporeans need to come home to reading, otherwise they will lose the skills they honed at school. Change is possible. We only have to look to Islamic history to see how the moment of Iqra brought about an efflorescence of learning and literacy to a culture that had not placed that much value on learning and knowledge during the Jahili Period.
