Singapore Lit

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 ...

Jennani DuraiPaperback, 216 pages9789814785228   A teenager discovers his grandfather's secret identity only after his death. A young immigrant to ...

Goh Poh SengPaperback, 178 pages9789813251151   Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challe...

Diana RahimPaperback, 164 pages9789811781469   We Saw Mountains gathers nine stories of human and non-human daring, where quotidian life is cracked...

Jolene TanPaperback, 220 pages9789811867996   Police sergeant Hafiz lies in a coma after a gunshot to the head. The investigation by Internal Affai...

Rachel HengPaperback, 384 pages9781473672956   SUICIDE CLUB is a provocative debut novel set in a near-future New York, where life expectancy avera...

Alfian Sa’atPaperback, 292 pages9789811400421   Alfian Sa’at explores the Malay identity and racial relations in this third volume of the Collected...

Suchen Christine LimPaperback, 392 pages9789815084443   Malaya. A land of unparalleled richness. For centuries, the peninsula has attracted fortune...

Alfian Sa’atPaperback, 172 pages9789810779931   Corridor is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clar...

Daren ShiauPaperback, 276 pages9789811811203   Hailed as “the definitive Singaporean novel”, this new edition of Heartland is accompanied by a new ...

Alvin PangPaperback, 56 pages9789811739996   He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you h...

Isa Kamari Paperback 9789810767822

Yeng Pway NgonJeremy Tiang (translation)Paperback9789811779268   The Colour of Twilight is an elegy –– for its protagonist, an ageing widower who w...

Suchen Christine LimPaperback, 332 pages9789814642897   Fistful of Colours is an elegant, multi-layered reflection on Singapore as experienced thro...

Jamal IsmailJalaluddin Ahmad Jamal (translation)Paperback, 212 pages9789819446193   Translated from the Malay, Tunjuk Langit   “As I gaze upon the ...

Wong Phui NamBrandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie (editors)Paperback, 252 pages9789813252844   The poetry of Wong Phui Nam (1935–2022, Muslim name...

Khalid Ajmain Paperback 9789819436798

Khairun Atika KamsanPaperback, 354 pages9786299585541   Alisa, a bright-eyed, passionate preschool teacher, can’t stand Gadafi: the arrogant, conce...

Ng Yi-ShengPaperback, 360 pages9789815348026   Finalist for the 2025 Epigram Books Fiction Prize   A mythic historical novel by two-time Singapore ...

Wahidah TambeePaperback, 106 pages9781958652176   What does the feeling of holding your words and thoughts back—stuck and struck in a state of perc...

Wahid Al MamunPaperback, 96 pages9789819423163   Written over eight years, Wahid Al Mamun's debut collection of poems is an intricate exploration o...

Rachel HengPaperback, 464 pages9781035406340   They would look back and ask themselves, what was the moment that changed everything? Could she blam...

Loh Chin Ee, Angelia Poon and Esther Vincent (editors) Second EditionPaperback, 172 pages9789811768903   Catching crickets after school, waiting fo...