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The Gatekeeper Fox Fire Girl Surrogate Protocol State of Emergency
EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE 2015
Altered Straits
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LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #8
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The Lieutenant's Errand Boy
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• UNDERSTANDING SINGAPOREANS #1, #2, #3 & #4
Why Do the Chinese Shout Yam Seng? Why Do Malays Avoid Pork? Why Do Indians Dot Their Foreheads? Why Do Eurasians Love Sugee Cake? 36
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Dying to Meet You
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The Parsis of Singapore: Heritage, Culture, Cuisine
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• SENGKANG SNOOPERS #1 Mystery of the Hermit's Hut • PERCY & PAM #1 Trouble at the Prata Shop • SHERLOCK SAM #11.5 Sherlock Sam's Orange Shorts • DANGER DAN & GADGET GIRL #4 The Zany Zombie-fest Backlist
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MARCH
EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE 2016 WINNER
The Gatekeeper Nuraliah Norasid
A young medusa named Ria petrifies an entire village of innocents with her gaze. Together with her sister, she flees for the underground city of Nelroote, where Manticura’s quasi-fantastical sapient races—Scereans, Tuyuns, Feleenese, Cayanese—live on the margins. There, she takes up her role as gatekeeper, protecting the city from threats Human or otherwise.
WINNER
Decades later, Manticura has become a modern urban city, and a man named Eedric is bored with the monotony of his privileged life. He stumbles upon the entrance to Nelroote and encounters Ria, who has spent nearly half a century in solitude. As their friendship blossoms, external whispers of the medusa sisters threaten to spark a chain of events that will throw Nelroote and its inhabitants into imminent danger. Nuraliah Norasid holds a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from Nanyang Technological University. She works as a research associate at the Centre for Research on Islamic and Malay Affairs (RIMA), where she studies marginalities and the confluence of religious ideas and secular society. Her writing has been published in QLRS, Karyawan Magazine, AMPlified and Perempuan: Muslim Women Speak Out. The Gatekeeper is her first novel.
978981 1700903 296 pp 152 x 225 mm Paperback SGD
$ 24.90
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EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE 2016 FINALIST
Fox Fire Girl O Thiam Chin
Derrick can’t believe his luck when he rekindles a romance with ex-girlfriend Yifan. But Yifan remains aloof and distant. She confides to Derrick that in her hometown of Ipoh, she discovered that she is actually a fox spirit with mystical powers.
FINALIST
But Derrick isn’t the only person who has fallen under Yifan’s spell. Unbeknownst to him, Tien Chen, a man with an unhealthy obsession with fire, has also been dating her. When Tien Chen eventually confronts Yifan about her infidelity, she tells him a story about her childhood in Ipoh that explains her actions, and then disappears. Where has she gone, and is Yifan really the person she claims to be? O Thiam Chin is the winner of the inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize in 2015, for his first novel, Now That’s It’s Over. He is also the author of five collections of short fiction: Free-Falling Man (2006), Never Been Better (2009), Under The Sun (2010), The Rest Of Your Life and Everything That Comes With It (2011) and Love, Or Something Like Love (2013, shortlisted for the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize for English Fiction). 978981 1700934 160 pp 152 x 225 mm Paperback SGD
$ 24.90
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EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE 2016 FINALIST
Surrogate Protocol Tham Cheng-E
A man of many names and identities. Landon Lock has lived many lifetimes, but his memory spans only days. Because Landon is no ordinary barista.
FINALIST
Danger brews as Landon struggles to piece reality together through the fog of amnesia: a mysterious organisation bent on hunting him down, a man called John who claims to be a friend, and women from Landon’s past who have come to haunt him. As the organisation closes in on Landon, he finds himself increasingly backed into a corner. Battling his unreliable memory, Landon is forced to make a decision on who to trust. Tham Cheng-E is an architect who also writes about the special needs community for the online magazine Special Seeds, and maintains a family blog on parenting and Down syndrome. Surrogate Protocol is his first novel.
978981 1700910 376 pp 152 x 225 mm Paperback SGD
$ 24.90
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EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE 2016 FINALIST
State of Emergency Jeremy Tiang
A woman finds herself questioned for a conspiracy she was not a part of. A son flees to London to escape from a father, wrecked by betrayal. A journalist seeks to uncover the truth of the place she once called home. A young wife leaves her husband and children behind to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya.
FINALIST
The struggles against communism may have started decades ago, but it has left deep scars across the region. State of Emergency traces the leftist movements of Singapore and Malaysia from the 1940s to the present day, centring on a family trying to navigate the choppy political currents of the region. Jeremy Tiang is a full-time writer and translator. His short story collection, It Never Rains on National Day (Epigram Books, 2015) was shortlisted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize; he also won the Golden Point Award in 2009. He has translated more than 10 books from Chinese, including novels by You Jin, Yeng Pway Ngon, Zhang Yueran, Chan Ho-Kei and Wang Jinkang, and been awarded an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship, a PEN/ Heim Grant, and a Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship. Jeremy writes and translates plays, including A Dream of Red Pavilions (performed off-Broadway by Pan Asian Rep), The Last Days of Limehouse (Yellow Earth, London), A Son Soon by Xu Nuo (Royal Exchange, Manchester) and Floating Bones by Quah Sy Ren and Han Lao Da (The Arts House). He currently resides in Brooklyn.
978981 1700927 280 pp 152 x 225 mm Paperback SGD
$ 24.90
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FEBRUARY
EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE 2015 LONGLIST
Altered Straits Kevin Martens Wong
The future of all the known universes hinges on a boy-soldier and his tenuous connection with a merlion. In an alternate 1947 filled with mystical creatures, Singapuran boy-soldier Naufal Jazair is bonded to the merlion Bahana and enlisted in a war against an aggressive neighbour. Meanwhile, in an apocalyptic Singapore in 2047, SAF officer Titus Ang is tasked with entering Naufal’s universe and retrieving a merlion to save the future of Singapore from the Concordance, a hive intelligence that is close to consuming what remains of humanity. Kevin Martens Wong is a linguistics major at the National University of Singapore, founder of Unravel: The Accessible Linguistics Magazine, and head of the Kodrah Kristang revitalisation initiative for the critically endangered Kristang language in Singapore. He won the NUS Creative Writing Competition in 2015 for his short story “A Merlion for His Majesty”, and his work has also been published in Transect and Entitled magazine. He lives in Singapore, and Altered Straits is his first novel. 978981 4757874 384 pp 152 x 225 mm Paperback SGD
$ 24.90
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Fiction
APRIL
LONTAR The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #8
Jason Erik Lundberg, ed. This eighth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand. Inside these pages, you’ll find: fishing for mermaids in the Mekong River by Alyssa Wong; a tense and otherworldly ancestral homecoming by Michael Janairo; a rebellion against inevitable eugenics by Clara Chow; snapshots of the fantastic in the mundane by Wilfred Cabrera; and speculative poetry by Tilde Acuña, Bernise Carolino, Judith Huang, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Christina Sng, Sharlene Teo and David Wong Hsien Ming. Also included is a special supplement: part one of Dean Francis Alfar’s brilliant novel Salamanca, winner of the Palanca Award Grand Prize for the Novel and the Gintong Aklat Award for Literature, serialised here for the first time anywhere. Jason Erik Lundberg, founding editor, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has lived in Singapore since 2007. He is the author of a dozen books, including the collection Strange Mammals (2013) and the Bo Bo and Cha Cha children’s picture book series; he is also the series editor of The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories, editor of Fish Eats Lion (2012, 2014), and co-editor of A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (2008) and Scattered, Covered, Smothered (2004).
ALSO IN THE SERIES
Lontar Issue #3
Lontar Issue #4
Lontar Issue #5
978981 4615754
978981 4615914
978981 4655187
Lontar Issue #6
Lontar Issue #7
978981 4757386
978981 4757775
978981 4757621 160 pp 165 x 215 mm Paperback SGD
$ 14.90
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JUNE
EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE 2016 LONGLIST
The Lieutenant's Errand Boy Warran Kalasegaran During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, an eight-year-old Tamil boy is separated from his father, forced to work for the Japanese military police and renamed Nanban. He learns their language and customs, studies their martial arts and prays to their Emperor. While watching the cruelty with which the Imperial Army rules Singapore, he becomes just as ruthless to survive. Twenty years later, a talented, racially ambiguous seamstress named Papatti uses her knitting skills to fight for Singapore’s merger with Malaya. She meets a cunning politician who takes an interest beyond her sewing abilities. Through the turbulence of merger, independence and race riots, she must rely on her wits and courage to see her way through. Two lives destined to intersect, from the 1940s to the 1960s. Through war, political turmoil, and ultimately reconciliation.
978981 4785068 384 pp 152 x 225 mm Paperback SGD
$ 24.90
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Warran Kalasegaran studied Politics with International Studies at the University of Warwick, and graduated with a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Tokyo. His maternal grandparents were orphaned during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, which sparked his interest in this period of the nation’s history. He currently works at Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and The Lieutenant’s Errand Boy is his first novel.
Fiction
JUNE
Once We Were There Bernice Chauly
Delonix Regia stands on the edge of a building, torn between life and death. Six years earlier she was getting tear-gassed as a journalist documenting Malaysia’s Reformasi movement. In Kuala Lumpur at the tail end of the Asian financial crisis, the hedonistic underground drug scene sets the stage for a heady cocktail of revolution, anger and idealism. Delonix falls in love, gets married and has a child, but when her daughter goes missing, she is driven to madness and despair. She discovers KL’s terrible secrets, where babies are sold and women and children are trafficked with sometimes fatal consequences. Once We Were There is a dark and devastating novel about love and loss. Bernice Chauly is the award-winning author of five books of poetry and prose; going there and coming back (1997), The Book of Sins (2008), Lost in KL (2008), Growing Up With Ghosts (2011) and Onkalo (2013, “Direct, honest and powerful” —JM Coetzee). Born in George Town, Penang to Chinese-Punjabi teachers, she read Education and English Literature in Canada as a government scholar. She was an Honorary Fellow at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP) in 2014, has served as Festival Director of the George Town Literary Festival since 2011, and currently lectures at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC). Her photographs and films have been exhibited and screened worldwide.
978981 4785167 336 pp 152 x 225 mm Paperback SGD
$ 24.90
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Fiction Backlist
Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2015 WINNER
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‘‘Now That's It's Over is an intense read: a bold, insightful examination of the secret traumas that lie beneath the surface of everyday life, which grow until they break forth with devastating consequences. O Thiam Chin is a writer at the height of his powers.’’
Stephanie Ye author of The Billion Shop and criticism editor of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
Now That's It's Over O Thiam Chin 978981 4757287
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Sugarbread Balli Kaur Jaswal 978981 4757300
Let's Give It Up for Gimme Lao! Sebastian Sim 978981 4757324
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Death of a Perm Sec Wong Souk Yee
Anabelle Thong Imran Hashim
Kappa Quartet Daryl Qilin Yam
978981 4757348
978981 4757508
978981 4757751
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Fiction Backlist 1
The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza Cyril Wong 978981 0762322 SGD $ 18.90
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The Goddess in the Living Room Latha Translated from the Tamil by various
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Big Mole Ming Cher 978981 4655354 SGD $ 24.90
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The Space Between the Raindrops Justin Ker 978981 4615068 SGD $ 18.90
978981 4615143 SGD $ 18.90
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It Never Rains on National Day Jeremy Tiang 978981 4655644 SGD $ 18.90
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978981 4757584 SGD $ 18.90 *Available in 4 colours
The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume 1 Jason Erik Lundberg, ed.
The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume 2 Jason Erik Lundberg, ed.
987981 0762346 SGD $ 24.90
987981 4615921 SGD $ 24.90
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978981 0765996 SGD $ 17.90
Inheritance Balli Kaur Jaswal
Heaven has Eyes Philip Holden
978981 0755591 SGD $ 22.90
978981 4757362 SGD $ 24.90
978981 4757713 SGD $ 18.90
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The Wayang at Eight Milestone: Stories & Essays Gregory Nalpon
The Short Stories and Radio Plays of S. Rajaratnam Irene Ng, ed.
978981 0764579 SGD $ 18.90
978981 0878481 SGD $ 18.90
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2 Shortlisted, Best Fiction Title and Best Book Cover Design, Singapore Book Awards 2016
7 World except English language Nurse Molly Returns Katherine Soh
978981 0788285 SGD $ 18.90
978981 4615082 SGD $ 18.90
4 World except German language
The Good, the Bad and the PSLE Monica Lim
A Certain Exposure Jolene Tan
Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories Cyril Wong
Ministry of Moral Panic Amanda Lee Koe
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3 Shortlisted, English Fiction, Singapore Literature Prize 2016 4 Winner, Singapore Literature Prize 2014 Winner, Best Fiction Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016 Longlisted, Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2014
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Singapore Classics 1
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A series of unforgettable out-of-print novels by Singapore’s best pioneer writers, republished for a new generation of readers.
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Son of Singapore Tan Kok Seng
Man of Malaysia Tan Kok Seng
Three Sisters of Sze Tan Kok Seng
The Immolation Goh Poh Seng
Ricky Star Lim Thean Soo
978981 0768324
978981 0768348
978981 0726881
978981 0899356
978981 0726867
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Glass Cathedral Andrew Koh
Green Is the Colour Lloyd Fernando
Scorpion Orchid Lloyd Fernando
978981 0899325
978981 0726850
978981 0899332
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The Adventures of Holden Heng Robert Yeo
The Scholar and the Dragon Stella Kon
978981 0899349
978981 0899318
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Spider Boys Ming Cher
Eye on the World Tan Kok Seng
978981 0726874
978981 1700620
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Cultural Medallion series 1
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This series pairs winners of Singapore’s highest arts award with some of the finest translators working in the field today.
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In Time, Out of Place You Jin Translated from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant
The Widower Mohamed Latiff Mohamed Translated from the Malay by Alfian Sa’at
978981 4615020 SGD $ 24.90
978981 4615044 SGD $ 24.90
978981 4615129 SGD $ 24.90
Teaching Cats to Jump Hoops You Jin Translated from the Chinese by Sylvia Li-chun Lin 978981 0736576 SGD $ 17.90
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Death by Perfume You Jin Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang
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Trivialities About Me and Myself Yeng Pway Ngon Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt 978981 4615105 SGD $ 24.90
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The Tower Isa Kamari Translated from the Malay by Alfian Sa’at 978981 0767822 SGD $ 17.90
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Penghulu Suratman Markasan Translated from the Malay by Solehan Ishak
Confrontation Mohamed Latiff Mohamed Translated from the Malay by Shafiq Selamat
Flowers At Dawn Singai Ma Elangkannan Translated from the Tamil by A.R. Venkatachalapathy
Other Cities, Other Lives Chew Kok Chang Translated from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant
978981 0735357 SGD $ 17.90
978981 0755577 SGD $ 24.90
978981 0735364 SGD $ 17.90
978981 0766726 SGD $ 17.90
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Under the Bed, Confusion Wong Meng Voon Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt 978981 0736613 SGD $ 17.90
The Earnest Mask Xi Ni Er Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Li-chun Lin
Durians Are Not the Only Fruit: Notes from the Tropics Wong Yoon Wah Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang
A Life in Words You Jin Translated from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant
978981 0736590 SGD $ 17.90
978981 0766702 SGD $ 17.90
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978981 4615457 $ 24.90
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Picture Books
FEBRUARY
SAM, SEBBIE AND DI-DI-DI & XANDY #8
A Day at Dolphin Island David Seow & Soefara Jafney Poor Di-Di-Di! His favourite toy dolphin has been chewed up by his naughty dog. The family decides to visit Dolphin Island to cheer him up. There, the children befriend three sibling Dolphins who want to have a competition to see who is the best. Amidst the “sibling rivalry”, everyone has a lot of fun and the dolphins get to show the children what they are really good at. ALSO IN THE SERIES 1
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At the Night Safari
At the S.E.A. Aquarium
Sebbie’s First Day of School
978981 0765958
978981 0765972
978981 0778576
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David Seow is a children’s book author and a staple in the Singapore literary scene, having written 23 books, including the Sam, Sebbie and Di-Di-Di series which feature his young niece and nephews as the main characters. Other titles include Alexander’s Adventure Machine and The Littlest Emperor, There’s Soup on My Fly!, Blow A Kiss, If I Were a Blue Kangaroo and Emma’s Elephant.
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A Day with the Duchess
The Lion Dance
A Royal Adventure
978981 0778613
978981 0778590
978981 4615891
Soefara Jafney is an illustrator, art director and designer who started out in a production house, and later went into fashion, then jumped head first into the advertising industry before finally finding comfort in simply producing art.
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978981 4757904 Rights 1-5 World except Tamil language in Singapore Return to the S.E.A Aquarium 978981 4757898
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210 x 260 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 14.90
Rights World
Picture Books STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
FEBRUARY
The Red Shoe Tang Sulan & Wang Ke
All shoes come in pairs but a single red shoe was all alone and sad. Determined and hopeful, it sets off to find its missing partner and meets a little mouse. Used to being alone, the mouse becomes an unlikely companion in the red shoe’s journey. Together, they go on an adventure and overcome obstacles to finally find the red shoe’s partner. The little mouse departs quietly and happily, different from before. Tang Sulan is a writer and editor, and a Professor from Hunan Normal University. She is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, and Vice Chairman of the Association of Hunan Province. Sulan has written over 40 children’s books and won several awards including the National Children’s Literature Award, Song Qingling Children’s Literature Award and Chen Bocui Prize for Children’s Literature. Her popular titles include Stories of the Foolish Wolf, The Pretty Witch and Miracle Garden. Wang Ke has been working as an art editor since graduating from Nanjing University of Arts majoring in oil painting. His publication includes Thirty-Six Stratagems, QQ Mice Squad, The Big Dog and the Bunny’s Pillow, Qijia’s Oxygen Bar in the Forrest and What Has Happened?. The last two are listed among the “100 Excellent Books Recommended to the Youth” by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of China.
978981 1700804 32 pp
260 x 210 mm Paperback
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$ 14.90
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MARCH
The Great Hospital Adventure in Space Serene Ng Drawing on every child’s inevitable experience of being separated from his or her parents or guardian while in the hospital, The Great Hospital Space Adventure seeks to address this very fear of separation anxiety in a child patient. Dinoboy, having such fears, embarks on an adventure as he goes through his MRI scan. Perhaps the hospital does not have to be such a frightful place to be in after all. Serene Ng is an art teacher by name, designer by training, illustrator by nature and artist by heart. She is intrigued by the visual relationships between people and places. The role of illustration in society is particularly close to her heart.
978981 1700828 32 pp
230 x 230 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 14.90
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Picture Books
APRIL
STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Will You Read a Book With Me? Lawrence Schimel & Thiago Lopes Antonio wants to share his favourite book with someone but everyone is too busy at the moment. He goes around the neighbourhood searching but is disappointed time and again. He sees a blind man along the way but does not ask him as he would not be able to read. But it turns out that he is just the right reading companion Antonio was looking for!
978981 1700781 32 pp
210 x 260 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 14.90
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Lawrence Schimel has lived in Madrid since 1999. He writes in both Spanish and English, and has published over 100 titles as author or anthologist, in various genres and for all ages, including the poetry collection Desayuno en la cama; the graphic novel Vacaciones en Ibiza; and many children’s books. His picture book No hay nada como el orginal (Destino) was selected by the International Youth Library in Munich for the White Ravens 2005 and his picture books Lees un libro conmigo (Panamericana) and Igual que ellos/ Just Like Them (Ediciones del Viento) were selected by IBBY for Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities in 2007 and 2013 respectively. His other awards include the Lambda Literary Award, the Independent Publisher Book Award, and the Spectrum Award. His writing has been translated into over 30 languages, including Icelandic, Maltese, Estonian, and Turkish. In addition to his own writing, he works as a Spanish-English literary translator.
Picture Books
APRIL
The Boy in the Whale Suit Marie Toh Kai goes about in a whale suit. However, he doesn’t stand out and mostly goes about unnoticed. Like a whale, gentle and solitary, Kai appears to be lonely but really isn’t. His world is colourful and exciting because of his uniqueness and we discover why he is happy the way he is. Marie Toh is an artist from Singapore. She enjoys story-telling and transforming them into narrative images. She is currently freelancing as an illustrator and uses various mediums such as ink, digital, watercolour and even embriodery. Her inspirations include her love for God, nature, dreams, nightmares, music, photography and the little small events that slip through our fingers daily.
978981 1700842 32 pp
230 x 230 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 14.90
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Picture Books
MAY
The Boy Who Wanted to Grow a Moustache Melvin Koh & Clarisse Chua Louis is a young boy whose imagination is fired up with the idea of becoming a grown up with a moustache, almost overnight. After exploring various solutions, he settles for glue and snips of hair from his mother’s wig. He turns up at school one fine day with a moustache firmly in place, horrifying not only the school cat and his friends but more importantly his teacher as well. That leads to a whole other set of issues. His parents are summoned. But that’s the least of his problems. His moustache stays firmly fixed. So how then does Louis manage to get his moustache off? Melvin Koh is writing a children’s picture book for the first time. His ability to tell a simple story is quite evident. Having children of his own and running an education centre has also provided him with enough material to use for his book. He is a trained economist from NUS. Melvin previously worked with the Monetary Authority of Singapore before owning an education centre.
978981 4757577 32 pp
230 x 230 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 14.90
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Clarisse Chua is illustrating a children’s picture book for the first time. She has a love of drawing, animation and illustration through her early years. She is currently studying at the California Institute of the Arts for a Bachelor in Fine Arts, Character Animation.
Picture Books
MAY
ASIA'S LOST LEGENDS #3
Dewi
The Day the Earth Shook
Catherine Khoo
In a village lived two half-sisters, Dewi and Wani. Wani was proud, envious and lazy, while Dewi was diligent, kind, honest and humble. Dewi did all the housework while Wani slept all day and only woke up when the food was ready. She was spoilt rotten by her mum, who is Dewi’s stepmother. Wani was envious of Dewi’s beauty and humility and tried all ways to bully her sister. One day, an earthquake struck the village. Both Wani and her mother were trapped under the rubble as they were sleeping in the house. Dewi rushed back from the fields and with the help of Ayu the buffalo, lifted all the rubble to rescue her stepmother and stepsister. They were grateful to Dewi for rescuing them and from that day onwards, they lived happily as one family. Catherine Khoo is the founder and director of Janus Education, Singapore’s first boutique publisher of imprints for under-18s, by under-18s. She was editor-in-chief of Asia 21, the only Asian publication that has been selected by the Ministry of Education as essential reading for their Humanities syllabus. Catherine is also the creator behind the Savvy series, having published two bestselling books. Singapore Savvy: 50 Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow and Malaysia Savvy: Top Profiles in Management. She is also the author of Love Notes and Golden Legends, a collection of legends from around the world.
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Justice Bao: The Case of the Missing Coing Catherine Khoo & Chen Ziyue
Tokoyo: The Tomb of the Sea Serpent Catherine Khoo & Teressa Ong
978981 0758103
978981 0767112
1 World except Tamil language in Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Canada and United Kingdom. 2 World
978981 0769154 32 pp
210 x 260 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 14.90
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Picture Books
JUNE
SAM, SEBBIE AND DI-DI-DI & XANDY #9
Fun at Adventure Cove Waterpark David Seow & Soefara Jafney Sam, Sebbie, Di-Di-Di and Xandy are going to spend a day at Adventure Cove! Di-Di-Di and Xandy hope to meet pirates and find lost treasure. Sam and Sebbie scoff and laugh at them, but after stumbling upon an old crumpled treasure map, agree to go on the quest with their younger siblings. After many amusing encounters and adventures, they finally find the mysterious treasure box. But Sam and Sebbie also find something else. This infuriates them and they chase their siblings all over Adventure Cove for an adventure of another kind.
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At the Night Safari
At the S.E.A. Aquarium
Sebbie’s First Day of School
978981 0765958
978981 0765972
978981 0778576
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A Day with the Duchess
The Lion Dance
A Royal Adventure
978981 0778613
978981 0778590
978981 4615891
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David Seow is a children’s book author and a staple in the Singapore literary scene, having written 23 books, including the Sam, Sebbie and Di-Di-Di series which feature his young niece and nephews as the main characters. Other titles include Alexander’s Adventure Machine and The Littlest Emperor, There’s Soup on My Fly!, Blow A Kiss, If I Were a Blue Kangaroo and Emma’s Elephant. Soefara Jafney is an illustrator, art director and designer who started out in a production house, and later worked in fashion, then jumped head first into the advertising industry before finally finding comfort in simply producing art.
Rights 1-5 World except Tamil language in Singapore Return to the S.E.A Aquarium 978981 4757898
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A Day at Dolphin Island 978981 4757904
6-8 World
978981 4757911 32 pp
210 x 260 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 14.90
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Picture Books
JUNE
When Harry Met Choo The Love Story of Mr and Mrs Lee Kuan Yew
Illustrated by Patrick Yee
She was the only woman who would call him Harry for the rest of his life. Choo called him by this name because soon after entering politics Singapore’s first Prime Minister was only known as Lee Kuan Yew. Their first meeting was at Raffles Institution. That soon blossomed into love and eventually a secret marriage first in the United Kingdom and later before family and friends in Singapore. The measure of his love and devotion is told in this series on Prominent Singaporeans. Two-time winner of the Macmillan Prize for Children’s Book Illustrations, Patrick Yee is a well-known illustrator of more than 100 children’s books. His publishing credits include Little Buddy, Rosie Rabbit, Winter Rabbit, and On Being Happy by UK publishers, Walker Books and Orchard Books.
978981 4615884 32 pp
210 x 260 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 14.90
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Picture Books Backlist 1
The Rock and the Bird Chew Chia Shao Wei & Anngee Neo 978981 0755553 SGD $ 16.90 6
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4
Where’s Grandma? Edmund Lim & Tan Zi Xi
The Crane and the Crab SR Nathan & Anngee Neo
978981 0720780 SGD $ 18.90
978981 0735906 SGD $ 16.90
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The Nightingale Who Couldn’t Sing Angie Featherstone & Stephanie Wong
The Robot in My Playground Pauline Loh & Avina Tan 978981 0755836 SGD $ 14.90
978981 0726188 SGD $ 14.90 7
Farrer Park Ann Peters & Lydia Yang
The Amazing Sarong Quek Hong Shin
978981 0716769 SGD $ 17.90
978981 4615860 SGD $ 14.90
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The Great Dragon Warrior Ng Swee San & Wen Dee Tan 978981 4615822 SGD $ 14.90
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Fann Patrick Yee
The Very Solid Adventures of Handsome Hock and Champion Poh Phua San San
978981 0726171 SGD $ 24.90
978981 0755850 SGD $ 14.90
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RIGHTS 1 World except German language & Tamil language in Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Canada and United Kingdom.
Karung Guni Boy Lorraine Tan & Eric Wong Grandma and the Things That Stay the Same Eve Aw & Yunroo
2 World except Korean language
978981 4615839 SGD $ 14.90
978981 4655392 SGD $ 14.90
Awards
4, 5 World except Tamil language in Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Canada and United Kingdom. 6 - 12 World
1 Winner, Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2015
6 Shortlisted, Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2013
Winner, Best Young Adults' Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016
Selected title for Read! Singapore 2013
First Prize, 2009 Commonwealth Essay Competition, Royal Commonwealth Society
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3 World except Simplified Chinese language
2 Winner, Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2013
7 Shortlisted, Best Children's Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016
Picture Books Backlist
Stories from Around the World 1
Blanket Travel Kim Da-Jeong 978981 0732189
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The Run of the Snail Manuela Monari & Philip Giordano
Why Cats Don’t Wear Hats Victoria Pérez Escrivá & Ester García
978981 0738891
978981 0732219
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The King and the Frog Alain Chiche & Sylvain Diez 978981 0732226
Tim’s Moving Day Anke Wagner & Eva Eriksson 978981 0739188
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Get In Line! Kristin Roskifte 978981 4615952
I Love Chocolate Davide Calì & Evelyn Daviddi
Hurry Up, Slow Down Isabel Minhós Martins & Bernardo Carvalho
978981 0732202
978981 4615945
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The Little Kangaroo Guido van Genechten
Achimpa: The Mysterious World Catarina Sobral
978981 4615969
978981 4655385
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Breakfast at Granny’s Micaela Chirif & Gabriel Alayza What If Dinosaurs Still Existed? Emma de Woot 978981 4655552
Don’t Be Sorry, Dad! Nari Hong 978981 4655767
978981 4655774
Awards
Rights
6 Best Editorial Production, Euro-Chocolate Award
1-6 Singapore only
8 Winner, Picture Book of the Year 2007 (Netherlands)
7 - 13 Southeast Asia
Price SGD
1 - 13 $ 14.90
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Picture Books Backlist
BoBo and ChaCha Jason Erik Lundberg & Patrick Yee 1
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A New Home for Bo Bo and Cha Cha
Bo Bo and Cha Cha’s Big Day Out
Bo Bo and Cha Cha and the New Year Gift
Bo Bo and Cha Cha Cook Up a Storm
Bo Bo and Cha Cha and the Lost Child
A Curious Bundle for Bo Bo and Cha Cha
978981 0739980
978981 0755508
978981 0767099
978981 4615334
978981 4615358
978981 4615372
Harry
Singaporean Nursery Rhymes
Patrick Yee 7
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A Boy Named Harry: The Childhood of Lee Kuan Yew
Harry Grows Up: The Early Years of Lee Kuan Yew
Harry Builds a Nation: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew
978981 4615297 *Also available in Chinese
978981 4615310 *Also available in Chinese
978981 4615433 *Also available in Chinese
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There Was a Peranakan Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Gwen Lee & Cheryl Cook
Jack and Jill at Bukit Timah Hill Gwen Lee & Twisstii 978981 4615853
978981 0778675
A Singaporean Fairy Tale 12
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Goh Bee Lock and the Three Boars KF Seetoh & Gavin Goo
Hansel and Girl Girl Adrian Pang & Milenko Prvacki
978981 0760168
978981 0731816
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Little Red in the Hood Glen Goei & Drewscape 978981 0732233
Price SGD
1 - 11 $ 14.90
Price SGD
12 - 14 $ 16.90
Awards 8 2nd Prize, Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2015, English (Children) Category
Picture Books Backlist
Emma & Ginger Lily Kong & Jeanette Yap 1
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Dad's Too Busy
Dad's for Sale
Dad's at Home
Dad's Dyslexic Too
978981 0765958
978981 4757850
978981 1700521
978981 1700545
5 World except Tamil language in Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Canada and United Kingdom.
Tibby
6 - 11 World
Emily Lim & Jade Fang
Price SGD
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Tibby, the Tiger-Bunny
Tibby and Duckie
Tibby and Scaredy Snout
978981 0758349
978981 4615716
978981 1700514
Prominent Singaporeans 8
Mister HDB Asad Latif & Lee Xin Li 978981 4655781
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Where Are All the Birds? Darel Seow
Elizabeth Meets the Queen Gwen Lee & Arai Kreva
978981 4655798
978981 4757003
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The Runaway Who Became President Amanda Kee & Patrick Yee 978981 1700606
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Early Readers
MARCH
UNDERSTANDING SINGAPOREANS #1
UNDERSTANDING SINGAPOREANS #2
Why Do the Chinese Why Do Malays Avoid Pork? Shout Yam Seng?
978981 4655682
978981 4655712
48 pp
152 x 229 mm Paperback
48 pp
152 x 229 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 12.90
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$ 12.90
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While Indians have their Festival of Lights, Malays celebrate two Hari Raya holidays. And while Eurasians take pride in their sugee cake, Chinese love their “red tortoise cake”. In four illustrated handbooks, we look at the traditions, beliefs, customs and festivals of each race.
Early Readers
MARCH
UNDERSTANDING SINGAPOREANS #3
UNDERSTANDING SINGAPOREANS #4
Why Do Indians Dot Why Do Eurasians Their Forehead? Love Sugee Cake?
Understanding Singaporeans is a fun series about the Indians, Malays, Eurasians and Chinese. Each book highlights 20 most-asked questions young Singaporeans have about the diverse cultures, with answers that aim to address stereotypes, highlight diversity and promote understanding.
978981 4655699
978981 4655705
48 pp
152 x 229 mm Paperback
48 pp
152 x 229 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 12.90
SGD
$ 12.90
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Early Readers
APRIL
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Early Readers
APRIL
ANG KU KUEH GIRL & FRIENDS #3
The Blur Sotong Wang Shijia
Meet Ang Ku Kueh Girl and her friends Png Kueh Girl, Kueh Lapis Girl, Curry Puff Boy and Roti Prata Boy in this charming new series for early readers. Be enchanted by some of Singapore’s most beloved foods. How did the Dragon, who once could fly and fight monsters, become frozen in a playground? Can Ang Ku Kueh Girl, Ang Ku Kueh Boy and Red Egg help him to defeat the Blur Sotong, and unfreeze the Dragon so that he fly where he chooses to? Wang Shijia has been creating Singaporethemed accessories as a hobby since 2003. She reinterprets Singaporean food culture and heritage as the charmingly illustrated characters Ang Ku Kueh Girl® and Friends.™
ALSO IN THE SERIES
The Magical Dragon Playground
The Kan Cheong Spider 978981 4757126
978981 4655987
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Since 2013 she has expanded her line of characters and worked on interesting projects with them e.g. designs for the Jubilee Baby Gift campaign, educational posters, a colouring book, family card games, wrapping paper and other gift items. She is also the designer for the official birth certificate and folder for SG50 babies born in 2015.
978981 4757140 48pp
152 x 229 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 12.90
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Chapter Books
APRIL
SENGKANG SNOOPERS #1
Mystery of the Hermit's Hut Peter Tan When their usual travel plans fall though, Lee Su Lin and her little brother, Su Yang, reluctantly spend their school holidays on Pulau Ubin instead. Along with their new friends, the sensible and smart Zizi, and the perpetually hungry Bus, they form the Sengkang Snoopers, and discover a mysterious hut at the top of a quarry hill, where a hermit is rumoured to live. When they hear strange sounds coming from the hut, they just can’t keep away, but what will they find there?
978981 4757201 224 pp 140 x 215 mm Paperback SGD
$ 10.90
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Peter Tan is the pen name of Tan Tarn How in his first foray into writing children’s books. Tan is currently a senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore. A graduate from Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, he also has a Diploma in Education from Singapore’s Institute of Education. After teaching, he has worked at the Straits Times, MediaCorp and Theatreworks. An accomplished playwright, Tan has written many plays to critical acclaim, including Six Plays and Fear of Writing (also published by Epigram Books). He writes children’s stories to entertain and hopefully to enlighten. He lives in Singapore with his wife and daughter.
Chapter Books
MAY
PERCY & PAM #1
Trouble at the Prata Shop Ruth Wan-Lau Percy enjoys nothing more than a prata breakfast with his best friend Pam. Just thinking about crispy fried bread topped with egg and cheese or smothered in bananas and ice cream will make a polar bear’s tummy rumble. When Percy and Pam find the owner of Ramasamy’s Prata in despair over a theft from his shop—the third time that week—the brave duo set out to catch the robber. But can a hungry polar bear surrounded by the delicious smells of nearby restaurants stay focused on the mission? And what mysterious characters will they meet in the middle of the night? The first in the illustrated Percy and Pam series sees the best friends working together—solving mysteries and helping others—and tucking into some of Singapore’s most treasured dishes along the way. Ruth Wan-Lau grew up in Toa Payoh, one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Singapore. She was fortunate to live 30 steps away from a huge library and practically grew up among its shelves. These days, Ruth writes because her three book-loving children keep feeding her story ideas. She still visits the library in Toa Payoh, and always gets a kick out of finding her own books there now.
978981 4785006 96 pp
130 x 185 mm Paperback
SGD
$ 10.90
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Chapter Books
JUNE
SHERLOCK SAM #11.5
Sherlock Sam's Orange Shorts A. J. Low This special collection of short stories provides a glimpse of the alternative realities introduced in Sherlock Sam and the Quantum Pair in Queenstown. In these stories, different versions of the gang throughout time and space exist, from Ōnāy-359 and an Ancient Land That Was Not China to the town of Tumbleweed and a Place That Is Not on Any Map. It’s Nazhar, Moran, Wendy, Mom and Dad, Officer Siva and Inspector Lestrade, Jimmy, Eliza, Watson, and Sherlock Sam as you’ve never seen them before! A. J. Low consist of husband-and-wife team, Adan Jimenez and Felicia Low-Jimenez. Born in California to Mexican immigrant parents, Adan moved to Singapore after graduating from New York University with a Literature degree. He previously co-wrote a children’s book, Twisted Journeys #22: Hero City. He loves comics, LEGO®, books, movies, games (analogue and video), Doctor Who and sandwiches, and one day hopes to own a store that sells all these things.
978981 1700668 144 pp 140 x 215 mm Paperback SGD
$ 10.90
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Felicia was born and raised in Singapore. She spent most of her childhood with her head in the clouds and her nose buried in a book, and now daydreams of owning her own bookstore. She has a graduate degree in Literary Theory, and the Sherlock Sam series is Felicia’s debut writing effort, after accumulating years of experience buying, selling and marketing books.
Chapter Books
JUNE
DANGER DAN AND GADGET GIRL #4
The Zany Zombie-fest Lesley-Anne & Monica Lim
Danny and Melody are back together again, except this time, they’re in Melody’s world! Welcome to Singapore 2135, where cars travel the skyways, the grass is so soft you can sleep on it, and everything runs perfectly. Danny is thrilled with the brilliant gadgets...but some things are not quite what they seem. In The Zany Zombie-fest, Danger Dan, Gadget Girl and Power Paws come face-to-face with the horrifying monsters of Haw Par Villa… and we’re not even talking about those in the Ten Courts of Hell! The superheroes have to defuse the situation or risk becoming zombies themselves. Will they triumph? Or will this House of Horrors haunt them forever? Lesley-Anne & Monica Lim are a daughterand-mother writing team. Sometimes their roles seem reversed; Lesley-Anne eats her veggies and occasionally has to force Monica to do the same. Monica runs her own writing business, blogs about education and is also the author of The Good, the Bad and the PSLE.
ALSO IN THE SERIES
Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Animal Abduction
Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Watery Wipeout
Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden
978981 4757027
978981 4757041
978981 4757065
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978981 4757089 144 pp 140 x 215 mm Paperback SGD
$ 10.90
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Chapter Books Backlist
Sherlock Sam A. J. Low 1
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3
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Awards
Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong
Sherlock Sam and the Ghostly Moans in Fort Canning
Sherlock Sam and the Sinister Letters in Bras Basah
Sherlock Sam and the Alien Encounter on Pulau Ubin
978981 0747503
978981 0751296
978981 0758899
978981 0766740
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1 Winner, Red Dot Book Awards 2013-2014, Younger Readers’ Category 2 2nd Runner-Up, Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2013, English (Children) Category 4 Shortlisted, Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2014, English (Children) Category 8 Shortlisted, Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2015, English (Children) Category
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Sherlock Sam and the Vanished Robot in Penang
Sherlock Sam and the Cloaked Classmate in Macritchie
Sherlock Sam and the Stolen Script in Balestier
Sherlock Sam and the Fiendish Mastermind in Jurong
Rights
978981 0769178
978981 0778651
978981 4655330
978981 4615679
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10
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World except English language in North America & Turkish language 4-5 World except Turkish language 6 - 11 World
Sherlock Sam and the Obento Bonanza in Tokyo
Sherlock Sam and the Comic Book Caper in New York
Sherlock Sam and the Quantum Pair in Queenstown
Price
978981 4615846
978981 4615907
978981 1700644
9 - 11 SGD $ 10.90
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1-8 SGD $ 9.90
Chapter Books Backlist
Danger Dan Lesley-Anne & Monica Lim 1
2
3
4
Awards 3 Shortlisted, Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2014 Danger Dan Confronts the Merlion Mastermind 978981 0778439 SGD $ 10.90
Danger Dan Tackles the Majulah Mayhem 978981 0785024 SGD $ 10.90
Danger Dan Spooks the Peculiar Peranakan Pirate 978981 4615211 SGD $ 10.90
Danger Dan Traces the Perilous Poison 978981 4615235 SGD $ 10.90
5 Shortlisted, Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2015
RIGHTS 5 Rights 1 - 5
World
Danger Dan Creates the Ultimate Utama Uproar 978981 4615259 SGD $ 10.90
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Chapter Books Backlist
The Diary of Amos Lee Adeline Foo 1
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3
4
5
Awards 1 Red Dot Award 2009
I Sit, I Write, I Flush!
Girls, Guts and Glory!
978981 0824846 SGD $ 12.90
978981 0726782 SGD $ 12.90
I’m Twelve, I’m Tough, I Tweet!
Your D.I.Y. Toilet Diary to Fame!
Lights, Camera, Superstar!
978981 0871321 SGD $ 12.90
978981 0707576 SGD $ 9.90
978981 0735180 SGD $ 12.90
The Travel Diary of Amos Lee Adeline Foo 6
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8
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4 1st Prize, Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2011 5 2nd Prize, Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2014 6 3rd Prize Winner, Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2015, English (Children) Category 7 Shortlisted, Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2015 Shortlisted, Best Young Adults' Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016
RIGHTS Seoul Searching! 978981 4615396 SGD $ 12.90
Monkeying in Malaysia! 978981 0794194 SGD $ 12.90
Whoopie Lee Adeline Foo 10
Lost in Taipei! 978981 0778729 SGD $ 12.90
Quokking in Australia! 978981 4655842 SGD $ 12.90
Rights 1 World except Slovakia, China (simplified Chinese language) 3 World except Indonesian language 1-5 World except Turkish
11
1, 4 - 5 India subcontinent (English & Tamil language) 10 - 11 World
Whoopie Lee: The Big Spell Off
Whoopie Lee: Almost Famous
978981 0747800 SGD $ 8.90
978981 0884130 SGD $ 8.90
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Young Adult
MARCH
MOUNT EMILY #3
Midnight at Mount Emily Low Ying Ping When Patsy discovers that she might not actually be a Time Keeper, and is instead a Midnight Warrior, she suffers from a deep identity crisis. Together with her best friend Elena Tan, she once again travels back in time to her mother’s teenage years, where they attempt to prevent her mother from meeting her father, in order to save them from a disastrous marriage. But can they really change the past? Low Ying Ping holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Warwick. Her poems have appeared in Singa, the journal of the National University of Singapore Centre for the Arts; and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. This is her third novel.
ALSO IN THE SERIES
Mount Emily
Mount Emily Revisited
978981 4655934
978981 4757164
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978981 4757188 186 pp 129 x 198 mm Paperback SGD
$ 12.90
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Young Adult
MAY
Lion Boy and Drummer Girl Pauline Loh Lion Boy and Drummer Girl reimagines the traditional art of lion dance as a pop sensation that has taken Asia by storm. Lion dancers are the new idols, but none are as chrismatic and handsome as US import Ricky Ang. Yet while other Leopop wannabes seek fame and fortune, Ricky dances to the beat of his own drum. Though surrounded by athletic and goodlooking young men, drummer girl Ong YingYing is, ironically, the greatest cynic of the Leopop wave. “Don’t fall for a Lion Dancer!” her mother had always warned her. “He will just break your heart.”
978981 4785105 176 pp 140 x 215 mm Paperback SGD
$ 12.90
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Pauline Loh is an award-winning writer with 30 years of writing experience. She has published 11 adult non-fiction books, 3 youth books and 7 children’s storybooks. She is a winner of First Time Writers and Illustrators Publishing Initiative 2009 and first runnerup for Scholastic Asian Book Award 2012. Her books have been shortlisted for Hedwig Anuar Book Award 2015, Samsung KidsTime Author’s Award 2015 and Singapore Book Awards 2016. She is also Director of a nonprofit organisation called Women Empowered for Work and Mothering (WEWAM); and an ambassador of Singapore Memory Project (SMP). She mentors book authors; conducts Assembly Talks and Author Visits in schools and is a Ministry of Education registered trainer.
Young Adult Backlist
Triple Nine Sleuths Maranna Chan 1
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Award 9 Shortlisted, Popular Readers' Choice Awards 2015
Dangerous Limelight
Dangerous Despair
Dangerous Island
Dangerous Schemes
Dangerous Message
978981 0751067
978981 0754549
978981 0757441
978981 0757779
978981 0767976
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Dangerous Conspiracy
Dangerous Disappearance
Dangerous Symbol
Dangerous Revelations
978981 0780326
978981 0780340
978981 0791674
978981 0751067
Girl Overboard!
Archibald
Sheri Tan
SherMay Loh
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A Rose Among Thorns
A Rose Grows in the Jungle
Everything’s Coming Up Rosie
Archibald and the Blue Blood Conspiracy
Archibald and the Black Knight’s King
978981 0795740
978981 4615273
978981 4615419
978981 0881665
978981 0714604
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Price SGD
10 - 12 $ 10.90
13 - 14 $ 12.90
Awards Bronze Award, Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 2011 Silver Award, Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 2012
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LKY: Political Cartoons Morgan Chua
Tiananmen: 25th Anniversary Edition Morgan Chua
978981 0791759 (pbk) SGD $ 24.90
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978981 0779276 SGD $ 24.90 5
Last Train from Myth of the Stone: 20th Anniversary Edition Tanjong Pagar Koh Hong Teng Gwee Li Sui 978981 0766160 SGD $ 24.90 6
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978981 0731083 SGD $ 18.90 9
978981 0731106 SGD $ 18.90
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8 Monsters, Miracles & Mayonnaise Drewscape
Scenegapore Miel 978981 0731076 SGD $ 18.90
978981 0731090 SGD $ 18.90 11
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The Girl Under the Bed Dave Chua & Xiao Yan
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978981 4615501 SGD $ 18.90
978981 0769192 SGD $ 24.90 7
Ten Sticks and One Rice Oh Yong Hwee & Koh Hong Teng 3
The Bicycle Cheah Sinann
Date King #1: Singapore Dating Adrian Teo & Kenfoo
Date King #2: Mating Season Adrian Teo & Kenfoo
978981 0766054 SGD $ 9.90
978981 0769215 SGD $ 9.90
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Jerks Won’t Give You Flowers Moderna de Pueblo
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye Sonny Liew
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye Sonny Liew
978981 4655200 SGD $ 24.90
978981 0731069 SGD $ 34.90 Original Paperback
978981 4655675 SGD $ 34.90 Special Paperback
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978981 4757812 SGD $ 42.90 Original Hardcover
Mdm Kwa: The Life of Mrs Lee Kuan Yew Morgan Chua 978981 1700729 SGD $ 24.90 9
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13 Book of the Year, Singapore Book Awards 2016
8 Best Short Story Nominee, Eisner Awards 2013 “Moving Forward”
Shortlisted, English Fiction, Singapore Literature Prize 2016
Selected Title for Read! Singapore 2013
14 Winner Best Book Cover Design, Singapore Book Awards 2016
9 Shortlisted, Best Young Adults' Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016
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6 Bronze, 7th International Manga Awards
1, 3 - 4, 6 - 11 World 2 World except India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives Nepal & Sri Lanka
5 World except French language 12 - 14 Singapore & Malaysia
Non-Fiction
JANUARY
Mum Is Where the Heart Is You Jin Translated by Shelly Bryant In this uproarious memoir, You Jin employs her wry, inimitable style to describing her life as a parent. From her first trip back to her in-laws’ Ipoh home to when her youngest child leaves home to study overseas, You Jin unflinchingly faces the mistakes she makes and the wisdom she—and her children— discover in the process, and bares some of the deepest emotions found in any of her work. Even after passing through the bleakest days of severe depression, You Jin can still find ways to laugh—usually at herself, and through her journey of discovery in parenthood, she manages to add brillant colours to even the most mundane of life’s scenes. Tham Yew Chin, better known by her pen name You Jin, is the author of some 158 books, and is a prolific writer of travelogues, essays, opinion pieces, short stories and novels. Known for her heartwarming and sensitive observations of everyday life, she has been recognised in Singapore and China. The inaugural recipient of the Singapore Chinese Literary Award and the MontblancNUS Centre of the Arts Literary Award, she was honoured with the establishment of the You Jin Research Centre in Chongqing University in 2000. In 2009, Tham received the Cultural Medallion for her contributions to literature in Singapore.
978981 4615471 216 pp 152 x 225 mm Paperback SGD
$ 24.90
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Non-Fiction
MARCH
Dying to Meet You Angjolie Mei
Why would someone leave a shining career in management to work among the dead? Angjolie Mei, funeral director and “life celebrant”, recounts how the death of her father—a veteran known as “The Coffin King” in the funeral industry—prompted this dramatic choice. What exactly happens during embalming? What kind of post-death restoration is needed for second-degree burn victims? What are the little-known facts surrounding suicide in Singapore? Funeral director Angjolie offers the insider’s view on these and other aspects of an industry usually shrouded in mystery, and reflects on how her perceptions of death, and life, have changed since she chose this extraordinary profession. Angjolie Mei, formerly a financial advisor, is a certified funeral celebrant and a funeral director at The Life Celebrant, a provider of boutique funeral services. She is one of the few women in the funeral services industry in Singapore and provides fascinating insights into this little known profession. This is her first book. 978981 4757485 272 pp 129 x 198 mm Paperback SGD
$ 24.90
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Non-Fiction
APRIL
The Parsis of Singapore Heritage, Culture, Cuisine
Suna Kanga & Subina Aurora Khaneja When Suna first moved to Singapore, there were barely 40 Parsis; today there are wellover 350 Parsis in the country. During her four decade-long stay in Singapore, she was often asked, “Who are the Parsis?� This sparked the idea for a book to highlight the distinctive culture and cuisine of a notable but diminishing Indian community that settled in Singapore in the 1800s. The book documents the history and heritage of this unique community. Suna Kanga started her journalistic career as a writer for Onlooker magazine in India and went on to become its Associate Editor. On relocating to Singapore she established herself as a writer to premium publications like Tatler, Peak, The Straits Times, Silver Kris and others covering travel, food, interiors, jewellery and other lifestyle topics. Subina Aurora Khaneja wrote for over 30 years in the Corporate Communications, PR and Media world and was a scriptwriter and producer with the local Channel 5 in Singapore. She immersed herself in studying Creative Non-Fiction with the Stanford University Writing programme to recraft her skill for writing. This is her first book as a cowriter.
978981 4655958 176 pp 195 x 250 mm Hardcover SGD
$ 48.90
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Non-Fiction
MAY
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DANGER DAN SECRETS OF SINGAPORE #2
Secrets of Singapore: National Museum Edition Lesley-Anne & Monica Lim In Secrets of Singapore (National Museum edition), Danger Dan and Gadget Girl take a peek behind the pillars of the National Museum to see what secrets it guards. In exploring the museum, they discover that the museum itself hides a curious past. It was once located in a school, and some of the more unusual gifts it had received included an elephant and a tiger. Luckily, they were dead. Otherwise, there would have been chaos at the museum! Join Danger Dan and Gadget Girl on an adventure through the National Museum and watch history come to life right before your eyes. Lesley-Anne & Monica Lim are a daughter-andmother writing team. Sometimes their roles seem reversed; Lesley-Anne eats her veggies and occasionally has to force Monica to do the same. Monica runs her own writing business, blogs about education and is also the author of The Good, the Bad and the PSLE. ALSO IN THE SERIES
RIGHTS Awards Shortlisted, Best Non-Fiction Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016
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978981 4757645 144 pp 140 x 215 mm Paperback SGD
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Secrets of Singapore 978981 4615877
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Non-Fiction
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Between Stations Boey Kim Cheng
Singapore-born poet Boey Kim Cheng meditates on exile and loss during a year of travelling after leaving his native land to settle in Australia. He makes detours through India, China, Egypt and Morocco, haunted by the memories of family and vestiges of old Singapore. This travel memoir, first published in Australia in 2009, includes a new foreword by the author.
978981 4757591 272 pp 152 x 225 mm Paperback SGD
$ 24.90
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Boey Kim Cheng is a multi-award-winning Singapore-born poet and a 1996 recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award. He emigrated to Australia in 1997, but returned in 2013 as one of Nanyang Technological University’s writers-inresidence; he is currently Associate Professor in the NTU Division of English. He has published five collections of poetry, including Clear Brightness, which was selected by The Straits Times as one of the Best Books of 2012. His writing is frequently studied in tertiary and university institutions in Singapore and abroad. Boey co-founded Mascara Literary Review in 2007, the first Australian literary journal to promote Asian Australian writing, and in 2013 co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Contemporary Asian Australian Poets.
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Let the People Have Him: Chiam See Tong: The Early Years Loke Hoe Yeong
I’m Not Perfect. I’m a Mom Jasmine Han & Shelly Holly
987981 0791735 SGD $ 34.90
987981 4615990 SGD $ 24.90
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Adrift: My Childhood in Colonial Singapore David T. K. Wong 978981 4615983 SGD $ 27.90
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978981 0813130 SGD $ 16.90
Iskandar Ismail: The Music Man Monica Gwee 978981 0768881 SGD $ 24.90
Hong Kong Fiascos: A Struggle for Survival David T. K. Wong 978981 4655569 SGD $ 27.90
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Baby Zoey Olivia Chiong 978981 4655873 SGD $ 24.90
Sushi and Tapas Pepukaye Bardouille & Neo Gim Huey
Letters to Aly: Surviving My BFF’s Suicide Lee-Ann
978981 0728182 SGD $ 19.90
978981 0768119 SGD $ 14.90
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Doing Good Great: Thirteen Asian Heroes and Their Causes Willie Cheng, Sharifah Mohamed & Cheryl Tang
Doing Good Well: What Does (and Does Not) Make Sense in the Nonprofit World Willie Cheng
978981 4615938 SGD $ 38.90
978981 4655668 SGD $ 38.90
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Malaysia Bagus! Travels Through My Homeland Sharon Cheah
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Why? When Both My Parents Took Their Lives Yin
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Not Born in Singapore: Fifty Personalities Who Shaped the Nation Tng Ying Hui
Fridays with Philip Philip Lee 978981 0811280 SGD $ 13.90
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With Grace: Classic Lessons in Beauty, Style & Manners Elsa Yeo 978981 4655972 SGD $ 80.00
Awards
1 3rd Prize, Popular Readers’ Choice Award 2015, English (Adult) Category English Non-fiction Shortlist, Singapore Literature Prize 2016
6 Shortlisted, Hedwig Anuar Book Award 2015
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Poetry & Playscript Backlist
From Stage to Print This series highlights Singaporean plays—hot off their productions, from classics to contemporary favourites.
Singapore Pioneer Poets 9
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Boom Jean Tay 978981 0840174
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Those Who Can’t, Teach Haresh Sharma
Everything but the Brain Jean Tay
978981 0855109
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Mimi Fan Lim Chor Pee
The Best of Edwin Thumboo
The Best of Robert Yeo
The Best of Kirpal Singh
978981 0718398
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Fear of Writing Tan Tarn How 978981 0714529
A White Rose at Midnight Lim Chor Pee
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Model Citizens Haresh Sharma
The Eye of History Robert Yeo
978981 0714611
978981 4757690
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978981 4615488 Clear Brightness Boey Kim Cheng
We Contain Multitudes Twelve Years of Softblow
978981 0741822 SGD $ 19.90
978981 4757737 SGD $ 27.90
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Four Plays Chong Tze Chien
Six Plays Desmond Sim
Six Plays Tan Tarn How
Eight Plays Ovidia Yu
Student Plays Desmond Sim
978981 0884956 SGD $ 24.90
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Food & Recipes Backlist
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NerdBaker: Extraordinary Recipes, Stories & Baking Adventures from a True Oven Geek Christopher Tan
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Plusixfive: A Singaporean Supper Club Cookbook Goz Lee & Friends 978981 0759063 SGD $ 44.90
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Artichoke: Recipes and Stories from Singapore’s Most Rebellious Kitchen Bjorn Shen
Onaka: Vibrant Recipes from a Wholesome Restaurant Rosalind Lim & Jason Vito
978981 0797737 SGD $ 44.90
978981 4615525 SGD $ 39.90
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The End of Char Kway Teow and Other Hawker Mysteries Dr Leslie Tay 978981 0865153 SGD $ 24.90
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Award 1 Shortlisted, Best Book Cover Design, Singapore Book Awards 2016
Mum’s Not Cooking! Favourite Singaporean Recipes for the Near Clueless or Plain Lazy Denise Fletcher 978981 0897321 SGD $ 20.90
Only the Best! The ieatishootipost Guide to Singapore’s Shiokest Hawker Food 2nd edition Dr Leslie Tay
There’s No Carrot in Carrot Cake: 101 Hawker Dishes Singaporeans Love Ruth Wan & Roger Hiew
978981 0778323 SGD $ 15.90
978981 0828653 SGD $ 13.90
Never Leave Home Without Your Chilli Sauce Constance Singam 978981 4655217 SGD $ 35.90
2 Winners, Best Chef Cookbook, & Best Illustrations Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2014, Singapore 10 Winner, Best Chinese Cuisine Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2012, Singapore Rights 1 - 15 World
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Uncle Lau’s Teochew Recipes Lau Chiap Khai & Tan Lee Leng
Irene’s Peranakan Recipes Irene Yeo & Elaine Yeo
Robin’s Eurasian Recipes Robin Pereira & Quentin Pereira
Krishnan’s South Indian Recipes Ambrose Krishnan & Padma Krishnan
Madam Choy’s Cantonese Recipes Choy Wai Yuen & Lulin Reutens
Uncle Anthony’s Hokkien Recipes Anthony Loo Hock Chye & Samantha Lee
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Wee Editions
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Wee Editions OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS #9
JANUARY
We Love Serangoon Gardens Urban Sketchers Singapore Home to the beloved Chomp Chomp Food Centre and the iconic Serangoon Gardens Circus, Serangoon Gardens—or affectionately known as Ang Sar Lee to older Singaporeans— has been designated an “identity node” by the Urban Redevelopment Authority since 2013. Its distinctive charm is derived from its rich heritage that seeps into its thriving present; from a nameless Malay barber that has been in operation for more than 20 years because of its loyal customers, to the conserved shophouses that have become synonymous with the area. With the artists from Urban Sketchers Singapore, we journey through this quiet and laidback suburban estate, where nostalgia and modern convenience seamlessly blend, resulting in a unique atmosphere that is unlike anywhere in Singapore. Urban Sketchers Singapore is an informal group of artists who draw the places they visit, capturing what they see from direct observation on location. Visit www.usk.sg for more details of their sketching sojourns.
978981 1700569 96 pp
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Wee Editions An imprint featuring works by Singaporean designers, photographers and artists in compact coffee table books. 2
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Seasons Thomas Lim 978981 4615792 SGD $ 119.90
Our Gurkhas: Singapore Through Their Eyes Zakaria Zainal 978981 0730260 SGD $ 24.90 5
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Cocks Ernest Goh 978981 0756260 SGD $ 24.90 6
100 Singaporeans Wesley Loh Kar-Wai
The Fish Book Ernest Goh
Beyond Wilderness Chua Chye Teck
978981 0731205 SGD $ 24.90
978981 0883607 SGD $ 24.90
978981 4655316 SGD $ 42.00
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Reinvent, reimagine and rediscover familiar sights and local haunts with these colouring books. RIGHTS Rights 7 - 9 World Price SGD
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Homes of the Holy
Picturesque Shophouses
978981 4757522
978981 4757539
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Our Neighbourhoods Urban Sketchers Singapore is an informal group of artists who draw the places they visit, capturing what they see from direct observation on location. Visit www.usk.sg for more details of their sketching sojourns. 2
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We Love Toa Payoh
We Love Katong
We Love Queenstown
We Love Little India
978981 0736231
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We Love Chinatown
We Love Tiong Bahru
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Notbooks
Notbooks
Let your Notbook say who you really are. Epigram Books presents handy little companions that are perfect for scribbles and sketches, available in 30 colours, designs and witty titles that subtly describe how it's so NOT you. NOW AVAILABLE IN A5 SIZE FOR SOME TITLES
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I AM NOT BOSSY. I AM TAKING CHARGE.
I AM NOT A BUM. I AM AN ARTIST.
I AM NOT SLEEPING. I AM MEDITATING.
I AM NOT STUBBORN. I AM COMMITTED.
I AM NOT WEIRD. I AM UNIQUE.
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I AM NOT FORGETFUL. I AM HAVING A SENIOR MOMENT.
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I AM NOT AGGRESSIVE. I AM ASSERTIVE.
I AM NOT MESSY. I KNOW WHERE EVERYTHING IS.
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I AM NOT DEMANDING. I AM A PERFECTIONIST.
I AM NOT RECKLESS. I AM A RISK TAKER.
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I AM NOT EMOTIONAL. I AM IN TOUCH WITH MY FEELINGS.
I AM NOT A CYNIC. I AM A REALIST.
I AM NOT LATE. YOU ARE EARLY.
I AM NOT KIASU. I AM SINGAPOREAN.
I AM NOT A COUCH POTATO. I NEED MY REST.
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A5 size 148 x 210 mm 128 pp Ruled on Right Matt Flexi-bound & Threadsewn
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I AM NOT BLUR. WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?
I AM NOT KANCHIONG. I AM ON THE BALL.
I AM NOT A DREAMER. I AM A VISIONARY.
I AM NOT FUSSY. I AM DISCRIMINATING.
I AM NOT PARANOID. EVERYONE IS AFTER ME.
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I AM NOT A GEEK. SUPERHEROES ARE REAL. Forest Green
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I AM NOT PROCRASTINATING. TOMORROW IS MY FAVOURITE DAY.
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I AM NOT PRICKLY. I AM SHARP.
I AM NOT HIGH. I AM HAPPY.
I AM NOT HYPERACTIVE. I AM ENERGETIC.
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I AM NOT A SHOPAHOLIC. I AM HELPING THE ECONOMY.
I AM NOT PERFECT. BUT PARTS OF ME ARE PRETTY AMAZING.
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I AM NOT IMPULSIVE. I AM SPONTANEOUS.
I AM NOT GRUMPY. I AM MARRIED.
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I AM NOT INDECISIVE. I AM KEEPING MY OPTIONS OPEN. Indigo
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Nuraliah Norasid Author of The Gatekeeper
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