Singapore Lit

Wong Koi TetShanna Tan (Translation)Paperback, 260 pages9789811892363   ‘Dakota is about a place that has expired, about distant memories and forgo...

Nisha MehrajPaperback, 336 pages9789815323689   “A woman is a cursed creature.”   Rina has heard this all her life — spoken by her beloved mother, ...

Gwee Li SuiPaperback, 356 pages9789814189668   Written Country intriguingly reconstructs the history of modern Singapore through fifty defining mom...

Shreya DaviesVanessa Wong (Illustration)Paperback, 116 pages9789819412174   Through her school days, where she must negotiate a precarious balancin...

Bani Haykal, David Wong Hsien Ming, Izyanti Asa’ariPaperback, 112 pages9789819447664   ALLTHETIME folios present three poets across the generations...

Alfian Sa'atPaperback, 48 pages9789814189552   One Fierce Hour is Alfian Sa’at’s first and breakout work. It was hailed as ‘truly a landmark’ for S...

Jonathan ChanPaperback, 96 pages9789811847318   As a sequence, going home unfolds with a mixture of astonishing technical assurance and intense per...

Jonathan ChanPaperback9789819425426   the bright sorrow is always ringing, always ringing, and fading into forgetting   Jonathan Chan presents poem...

Rachel TayPaperback, 248 pages9789815348064   Finalist for the 2025 Epigram Books Fiction Prize   A mother and son confront the past through fragme...

Philip JeyaratnamPaperback, 176 pages9789814974554   Abraham Isaac, teacher of Latin, philosopher, and father, has, after many years, a young pupil...

Claire ThamPaperback, 160 pages9789814974486   “I believe in the sanctity of the ordinariness of everyday life: beyond its charmed boundaries lies ...

Claire ThamPaperback, 160 pages9789814974493   Claire Tham’s rebels tease us with the most provocative questions. Was Hitler the first rock star? I...

Marc NairPaperback, 136 pages9789811873867   Marc Nair in The Earth in Our Bones – his eleventh collection – presents a series of poems and photogr...

Andeasyand, Vinita Ramani, Wayne Rée (Authors)Andeasyand, Griselda Gabriele, Nurjannah Suhaimi (Illustrators)Paperback, 144 pages9789819411788   A ...

fifi coo & family Paperback 9789811188572   When he was 8 years old, Fifi Coo, a non-verbal boy on the autistic spectrum, found his voice throu...

Philip Holden (Editor)Paperback, 216 pages9789811141737 “Each story invites readers to enter into the world of marginal yet strangely familiar fig...

Kristian-Marc James Paul, Mysara Aljaru, Myle Yan Tay (Editors)Paperback, 220 pages9789811852725   Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapo...

Esther Vincent Xueming, Ann Ang, Angelia Poon, Loh Chin Ee (Editors)Paperback, 208 pages9789811422829   This anthology collects over 100 poems from...

Jinny KohPaperback, 292 pages9789811177033   When 7-year-old Anna told a lie to get out of trouble, she didn’t expect her older sister to go missin...

Shivram GopinathPaperback, 166 pages9789811753992   “Dey” is Tamil slang. A polysemic portal into community. It is “hey”, “no”, “yes”; it hails, it...

Theophilus KwekPaperback, 76 pages9789810985998   Giving Ground refers to an act of yielding, or compromise—an active passivity, not unlike the act...

Lee Jing-JingPaperback, 352 pages9781786075956   The heart-rending story of survival and endurance in Japanese-occupied Singapore   Singapore, 1942...

Marc NairPaperback, 84 pages9789811177002   Vital Possessions by Marc Nair contemplates how city-dwellers negotiate their uneasy relationship with ...

Jeremy TiangPaperback, 280 pages9789811700927   Winner of Singapore Literature Prize 2018   Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru ...