Epigram Books Catalogue 2016 JUN-NOV

Jun - Nov 2016

Fiction 4—7

JUN JUN

8

Inheritance

JUN

9—10

EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE LONGLIST

Annabelle Thong Kappa Quartet

AUG SEP

11

Heaven Has Eyes

SEP

12

Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #7

OCT

Backlist • CULTURAL MEDALLION SERIES • SINGAPORE CLASSICS

Picture Books 16

18

20

22

23

24—25

26—28

Pg 31

EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE

Now That It's Over Sugarbread

13—15

Pg 37

4

16

• SAM, SEBBIE AND DI-DI-DI & XANDY Return to the S.E.A. Aquarium JUN • EMMA & GINGER #2 JUN Dad’s for Sale • PROMINENT SINGAPOREANS #3 AUG Elizabeth Meets the Queen • TIBBY #3 OCT Tibby and Scaredy Snout • PROMINENT SINGAPOREANS #4 The Runaway Who Became OCT President • EMMA & GINGER #3 & #4 OCT Dad’s at Home OCT Dad’s Dyslexic Too Backlist • STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Early Readers 29

30—31

Non-fiction

29

• ANG KU KUEH GIRL & FRIENDS #2 The Kan Cheong Spider • UNDERSTANDING SINGAPOREANS

45 JUL

#1, #2, #3 & #4

Why Do the Chinese Shout "Yam Seng"?

Why Don't Malays Eat Pork?

Why Do Indians Dot Their Foreheads?

Why Do Eurasians Love Sugee Cake?

Chapter Books 32

34—36

47 SEP SEP

48 49

SEP SEP

32

• SHERLOCK SAM #10 Sherlock Sam and the Comic Book Caper in New York • DANGER DAN AND GADGET GIRL

46

50

52 53—54

#2 & #3

The Watery Wipeout The Gruesome Garden 37—38

39—41

• SHERLOCK SAM #11 & #11.5 Sherlock Sam and the Quantum Pair in Queenstown Sherlock Sam and the Orange Shorts Backlist

Young Adult 42

43

56—57

44

• SINGAPORE CLASSICS Eye on the World Mum Is Where the Heart Is Dying to Meet You He Dared to Differ Backlist

JUL

59 60

61

OCT NOV NOV

51

AUG OCT

55

Never Leave Home Without Your Bottle of Chilli Sauce

SEP

Backlist 58

Epigram: The Art of the Annual Report

SEP

Beyond Wilderness

OCT

• OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS SERIES We Love Serangoon Gardens Backlist • COLOURING BOOKS

Notbooks 62—63

AUG

• FROM STAGE TO PRINT The Eye of History We Contain Multitudes Backlist • SINGAPORE PIONEER POETS • PLAYWRIGHT’S OMNIBUS

Wee Editions 58

• MOUNT EMILY #2 Mount Emily Revisited Backlist

Backlist

55

OCT

JUL

Food & Recipes

OCT

42

Graphic Novels 44

JUL OCT

A Life in Words

Poetry & Playscript 51

JUN

45

62

A5 & A6 size

OCT

Fiction

JUNE

4

Fiction

JUNE

EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE 2015 WINNER

Now That It's Over O Thiam Chin

In 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that devastates fourteen countries, and two vacationing Singaporean couples are caught in the catastrophe.

Alternating between the tsunami’s aftermath and past events that led these characters to that fateful moment, Now That It’s Over weaves a tapestry of causality and regret, and chronicles the physical and emotional wreckage wrought by natural and manmade disasters.

WINNER

O Thiam Chin is the author of five short story collections: Free-Falling Man (2006), Never Been Better (2009), Under the Sun (2010), The Rest of Your Life, Everything That Comes with It (2011) and Love, Or Something Like Love (2013, shortlisted for the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize for English Fiction). Now That It’s Over is his first novel, and the winner of the inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize, Singapore’s richest literary award.

978981 4757287 272 pp 152 x 225 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 24.90

‘This novel has breadth, and at its core is a very interesting exploration of Singaporean Chinese childhoods and adolescences.’

Philip Holden editor of Writing Singapore and EBFP judge

Rights World 5

Fiction

JUNE

6

Fiction

JUNE

EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE 2015 FINALIST

Sugarbread Balli Kaur Jaswal

Ten-year-old Pin must not become like her mother, but nobody will tell her why. Pin seeks clues in her mother’s cooking when she’s not fighting other battles—like being a Bursary Girl at an elite school and facing racial taunts from the bus uncle. Then her meddlesome grandmother moves in, installing a portrait of a watchful Sikh guru and a new set of house rules. Old secrets begin to surface, but Pin may not be able to handle the truth.

FINALIST

Balli Kaur Jaswal is the author of Inheritance, a universal story of family, identity and belonging. Born in Singapore and raised in Japan, Russia and the Philippines, she studied creative writing in the United States, and has received writing fellowships from the University of East Anglia and Nanyang Technological University. Balli was named Best Young Australian Novelist of 2014 by the Sydney Morning Herald.

OTHER EBFP 2015 FINALISTS 1

2

978981 4757300 280 pp 152 x 225 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 24.90

Rights World

Let's Give It Up for Gimme Lao!

Death of a Perm Sec 978981 4757348

978981 4757324

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Fiction

JUNE

Inheritance Balli Kaur Jaswal

In 1971, teenaged Amrit disappears from her house in the middle of the night. Although her absence is brief, she returns a different person, and the event causes fissures that threaten to fracture her Punjabi Sikh family.

Over the next two decades, as Singapore’s political and social landscapes evolve, the family must cope with shifting attitudes toward castes, youth culture, sex and gender roles, identity and belonging. Inheritance examines each family member’s struggles to either preserve or buck tradition in the face of an ever-changing nation.

Born in Singapore and raised in Japan, Russia and the Philippines, Balli Kaur Jaswal studied creative writing in the United States, and has received writing fellowships from the University of East Anglia and Nanyang Technological University. Balli was named Best Young Australian Novelist of 2014 by the Sydney Morning Herald.

978981 4757362 264 pp 152 x 225 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 24.90

Rights World 8

Fiction

AUGUST

EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE 2015 LONGLIST

Annabelle Thong Imran Hashim

Devout Catholic schoolteacher, Annabelle Thong, never thought her chastity was a liability—until she runs away to Paris to find Prince Charming.

Enrolling herself at the Sorbonne, she meets the suave Patrick Dudoigt, but as her lecturer, he’s the one temptation she MUST resist.

Annabelle’s belief system is challenged on all fronts, and her naïveté is seen as gauche in the City of Love. Guilt and confusion make for dangerous bedfellows, and when her fellow university students enthusiastically combine reading and rioting, Annabelle can’t help but wonder if everyone’s gone mad—or is it just her?

Annabelle Thong takes a hilarious look at the sparks that fly when East meets West, and the passions these ignite.

Imran Hashim fell in love with France a little late in life (in his teens) but made up for it by studying French with a vengeance at the National University of Singapore. He went on to win a French Government Scholarship for his postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris. Apart from providing the inspiration for his first novel, his time in Paris prepared him for jobs with an international focus, and is currently working for a British university.

978981 4757508 256 pp 152 x 225 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 24.90

Rights World 9

Fiction

SEPTEMBER

EPIGRAM BOOKS FICTION PRIZE 2015 LONGLIST

Kappa Quartet Daryl Qilin Yam

While holidaying in Tokyo, Kevin, a young man with no soul, meets an enigmatic kappa—a river demon of Japanese folklore. Little does Kevin know that kappas desire nothing more than the souls of other humans.

Set between Singapore and Japan, Kappa Quartet is split into eight discrete sections, tracing the ripple effects of this chance encounter across a host of other characters, bound to one another in ways both strange and serendipitous. Together, the characters ask one another: what does it mean to possess something no one has seen before?

Daryl Qilin Yam is a writer of prose and poetry currently reading English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.

He has been published in Esquire (Singapore), Ceriph, LONTAR, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Fish Eats Lion and elsewhere.

978981 4757751 240 pp 152 x 225 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 24.90

Rights World 10

Fiction

SEPTEMBER

Heaven Has Eyes Philip Holden

Heaven Has Eyes is a collection of stories that studies estrangement, interconnection and belonging in Singapore. While many of the narratives find traces of Singapore in unlikely places or forgotten moments of history—a beach in contemporary Canada, the London Zoo in the late 1940s, and even a cottage in war-time South Carolina—others stay within the city-state, exploring HDB interiors and common corridors, following family dinners, hospital visits, political rallies, government offices, or through television soaps and films.

The stories are linked by their characters’ discovery of transcendent moments in everyday life, told through dreaming, personal knowledge or the redemptive power of storytelling.

Prof Philip Holden teaches in the Department of English Language and Literature in the National University of Singapore. His recent books include the anthology Writing Singapore, co-edited with Angelia Poon and Shirley Geok-lin Lim. His short stories have been published in Prism International, QLRS & Cha, and his writing was chosen for Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2009 anthology.

978981 4757713 264 pp 130 x 200 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 18.90

Rights World 11

Fiction

OCTOBER

Lontar The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #7

Jason Erik Lundberg, ed.

The seventh issue of LONTAR presents speculative fiction writing from and about Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Laos, the Philippines, Indonesia and Korea, including:

ALSO IN THE SERIES 1

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Lontar Issue #4

Lontar Issue #5

Lontar Issue #6

978981 4615914

978981 4655187

978981 4757386

978981 4757775 128 pp 165 x 215 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 14.90

Rights

Southeast Asia

12

• ghostbusters disguised as lion dancers by Zen Cho; • the subversive power of jazz in a future North Vietnam by TR Napper; • a cautionary tale of writing one’s perfect lover into existence by Vida Cruz; • the hunt for a supernatural tiger in colonial Singapore by Manish Melwani; • death and a mysterious delivery truck by James Penha; • the last two Eurasians in Singapore by Melissa De Silva; • a critical appreciation of Eka Kurniawan’s novels by Tiffany Tsao; • a comic about schoolyard bullying and redemption

by Elvin Ching; and • speculative poetry from Bryan Thao Worra, Zeny May Recidoro, Brandon Marlon, Subashini Navaratnam, Russ Hoe, Christina Sng, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé and Cyril Wong.

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).

Fiction Backlist 1

The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza Cyril Wong 978981 0762322 SGD $ 18.90

6

A Certain Exposure Jolene Tan 978981 0788285 SGD $ 18.90

2

Big Mole Ming Cher 978981 4655354 SGD $ 24.90

7

The Goddess in the Living Room Latha Translated from the Tamil by various

3

It Never Rains on National Day Jeremy Tiang 978981 4655644 SGD $ 18.90

8

The Space Between the Raindrops Justin Ker 978981 4615068 SGD $ 18.90

978981 4615143 SGD $ 18.90 11

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13

4

Ministry of Moral Panic Amanda Lee Koe 978981 0757328 SGD $ 18.90

5

Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories Cyril Wong 978981 4615082 SGD $ 18.90

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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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Awards 2 Shortlisted, Best Fiction Title and Best Book Cover Design, Singapore Book Awards 2016 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

The Good, the Bad and the PSLE Monica Lim 978981 0765996 SGD $ 17.90

Nurse Molly Returns Katherine Soh 978981 0755591 SGD $ 22.90

RIGHTS Rights 1 - 3, 5 - 6, 8 - 14 World 4 World except German language 7 World English language

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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Fiction Backlist

Singapore Classics 1

2

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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4

5

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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7

8

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

11

RIGHTS Rights 1 - 10 World 11 Singapore & Malaysia

Spider Boys Ming Cher 978981 0726874

14

Price SGD

1 - 11 $ 17.90

Fiction Backlist

Cultural Medallion series 12

13

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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15

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Trivialities About Me and Myself Yeng Pway Ngon Translated from the Chinese

by Howard Goldblatt

The Tower Isa Kamari Translated from the Malay by Alfian Sa’at

Death by Perfume You Jin Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

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

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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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24

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Teaching Cats to Jump Hoops You Jin Translated from the Chinese

by Sylvia Li-chun Lin 978981 0736576 SGD $ 17.90

22

978981 4615105 SGD $ 24.90

978981 0767822 SGD $ 17.90

RIGHTS Awards 13 Shortlisted, English Non-Fiction, Singapore Literature Prize 2016 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

978981 0736590 SGD $ 17.90

978981 0766702 SGD $ 17.90

Rights 12 - 24 World English language

14 Shortlisted, English Fiction, Singapore Literature Prize 2016

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Picture Books

JUNE

16

Picture Books

JUNE

SAM, SEBBIE AND DI-DI-DI & XANDY

Return to the S.E.A. Aquarium David Seow & Soefara Jafney It’s Xandy’s birthday at the S.E.A. Aquarium, but no one brought the decorations for the party. As they explore the aquarium in search of a solution to their dilemma, Sam, Sebbie, Di-Di-Di and Xandy learn about the residents of the aquarium and the important roles they play in the seas and oceans.

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 went into fashion, then jumped head first into the advertising industry before finally finding comfort in simply producing art.

ALSO IN THE SERIES 1

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3

At the Night Safari

At the S.E.A. Aquarium

978981 0765958

978981 0765972

Sebbie’s First Day of School 978981 0778576

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5

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A Day with the Duchess

The Lion Dance

A Royal Adventure

978981 0778613

978981 0778590

978981 4615891

RIGHTS Rights 1 - 6 World

978981 4757898 32 pp

210 x 260 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 14.90

Rights World 17

Picture Books

JUNE

18

Picture Books

JUNE

EMMA & GINGER #2

Dad's for Sale Lily Kong & Jeanette Yap

What would you do to get money for something you really want? Why, put your dad up for sale, of course. That seems like a great idea to Emma at first, but she soon realises that what she actually wants is something money can’t buy.

The second title in the Emma & Ginger series takes a look at how a child learns to truly appreciate her father.

Lily Kong’s short stories and articles have been published in magazines and newspapers. She won the NUS Literary Society Writing Contest for an English short story in 1985 and the National Arts Council’s Beyond Words Chinese Picture Book Writing Contest in 2013.

Jeanette Yap graduated from Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design & Media. Her works are inspired by nature, books and good people, and she hopes that her drawings can be relatable to people of all ages and bring to them a sense of warmth, comfort or a little smile.

ALSO IN THE SERIES

RIGHTS Dad's Too Busy

Rights World

978981 0765958

978981 4757850 32 pp

210 x 260 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 14.90

Rights World 19

Picture Books

AUGUST

20

Picture Books

AUGUST

PROMINENT SINGAPOREANS #3

Elizabeth Meets the Queen A War Heroine’s Journey

Gwen Lee & Arai Kreva Elizabeth Meets the Queen tells a story of bravery and selflessness, through the life and experiences of Singapore war heroine Elizabeth Choy. Born in the jungles of Borneo, Elizabeth travels to Singapore and becomes a teacher, but she and her husband go through much hardship and torture as a result of helping prisoners-of-war during the Japanese Occupation. Follow Elizabeth as she tides through suffering towards freedom, and gets to meet the Queen of England.

Gwen Lee, trained as an architect in the UK, is one of the few interdisciplinary writers straddling the fields of architecture and literature. Her first children’s book was Little Cloud Wants Snow! She also wrote two nursery rhyme collections told with a Singaporean flavour—There Was a Peranakan Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, published in 2014, followed by Jack and Jill at Bukit Timah Hill a year later. Gwen is a recipient of the National Arts Council’s inaugural Arts Creation Fund and the winner of its Beyond Words Young and Younger initiative. She lives in New York, USA with her husband and daughter.

Arai Kreva graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts with a Diploma in Design Media majoring in Illustration. Arai is widely exposed to conceptual illustration, narratives and educational illustrations for all genres.

ALSO IN THE SERIES 1

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Mister HDB

Where Are All the Birds?

978981 4655781

978981 4655798

RIGHTS Rights 1 - 2 World

978981 4757003 32 pp

210 x 260 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 14.90

Rights World 21

Picture Books

OCTOBER

TIBBY #3

Tibby and Scaredy Snout Emily Lim & Jade Fang Tibby is an orange-and-black striped rabbit with long floppy ears and a short puffy tail. Not only can he hop, but he can also pounce and roar like a tiger!

Tibby meets a young boar called Scaredy Snout who can’t make friends because he is afraid of everything, but Tibby’s offer of friendship helps him to overcome his fears, and discover that things are not that scary after all.

ALSO IN THE SERIES 1

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Tibby, the Tiger Bunny

Tibby and Duckie

978981 0758349

978981 4615716

RIGHTS Rights 1 - 2 World

978981 1700514 32 pp

210 x 260 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 14.90

Rights World 22

Emily Lim is an award-winning children’s book author, and the first outside North America to win three Independent Publisher Book Awards (“IPPY” awards) for her books, Prince Bear and Pauper Bear (Bronze Medal 2008), Just Teddy (Bronze Medal 2009), and Bunny Finds The Right Stuff (Silver Medal 2010). She is also the first South-east Asian recipient of the Moonbeam Award for her book, The Tale of Rusty Horse (Moonbeam Gold Medal 2009). In addition, Just Teddy was on the Red Dot Award Shortlist in 2010, while Bunny Finds The Right Stuff made the Hedwig Anuar Shortlist in 2011.

Jade Fang grew up in Malaysia, and started doodling at a very young age, developing a great interest in drawing and painting as a child. Her passion for art and creativity drove her to further her studies in Singapore, and eventually in the US. She earned both her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She now lives in Singapore.

Picture Books

OCTOBER

PROMINENT SINGAPOREANS #4

The Runaway Who Became President S.R. Nathan's Journey of Hope

Patrick Yee Few would know of Mr S. R. Nathan’s turbulent childhood and tough times as a young adult.

The Runaway Who Became President takes us on a journey with Singapore’s longest-serving president as he faces the different challenges in his life and eventually becomes a well-loved and respected icon.

Patrick Yee is an award-winning illustrator of more than 100 children’s books, including Little Buddy, Winter Rabbit, On Being Happy, the Harry picture book series and the Bo Bo and Cha Cha series. He is most well-known in the US for his Rosie Rabbit board book series, which sold close to 100,000 copies and has been translated into five languages.

A graduate of the Camberwell College of Arts in London, Mr Yee won the Macmillan Children’s Book Award in 1989 and 1990.

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RIGHTS Rights 1 - 3 World

Mister HDB

Where Are All the Birds?

978981 4655781

978981 4655798

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He currently teaches at Nanyang Polytechnic, the Nanyang Academy Of Fine Arts, the Spastic Children’s Association, and the AWWA Special School.

Elizabeth Meets the Queen 978981 4757003

978981 1700606 32 pp

210 x 260 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 14.90

Rights World 23

Picture Books

OCTOBER

EMMA & GINGER #3

Dad's at Home Lily Kong & Jeanette Yap

Emma’s father has lost his job—his beloved camera shop has gone out of business.

Emma’s happy that he’ll be home more now, but she can that tell her father is sad, so she makes it her job to cheer him up. But Dad just seems to get more and more worried.

Emma & Ginger: Dad’s At Home turns a complex issue into a simple story to help children navigate around difficult moments with the ones they love.

ALSO IN THE SERIES 1

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Dad's Too Busy

Dad's for Sale

978981 0765958

978981 4757850

RIGHTS Rights 1 - 2 World

978981 1700521 32 pp

210 x 260 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 14.90

Rights World 24

Lily Kong’s short stories and other writings have been published in magazines and newspapers. She won the NUS Literary Society Writing Contest for an English short story in 1985 and the National Arts Council’s Beyond Words Chinese Picture Book Writing Contest in 2013. She majored in English Literature and Economics at the National University of Singapore and holds teaching diplomas in English as a Second Language, Speech and Drama, Public Speaking and Early Childhood Education. She is effectively bilingual.

Jeanette Yap is a graduate from Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design & Media. Her works are inspired by nature, books and good people. She hopes that her drawings would bring warmth to more hearts.

Picture Books

OCTOBER

EMMA & GINGER #4

Dad's Dyslexic Too Lily Kong & Jeanette Yap

Emma finds out two things: one, that she’s lost Ginger, and two, that she has dyslexia. As she struggles to find out what dyslexia even means while searching for her pet cat, she learns that she may have more in common with her Dad than she thinks.

Lily Kong’s short stories and other writings have been published in magazines and newspapers. She won the NUS Literary Society Writing Contest for an English short story in 1985 and the National Arts Council’s Beyond Words Chinese Picture Book Writing Contest in 2013. She majored in English Literature and Economics at the National University of Singapore and holds teaching diplomas in English as a Second Language, Speech and Drama, Public Speaking and Early Childhood Education. She is effectively bilingual.

Jeanette Yap is a graduate from NTU’s School of Art, Design & Media. Her works are inspired by nature, books and good people. She hopes that her drawings would bring warmth to more hearts.

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Dad's Too Busy

Dad's for Sale

978981 0765958

978981 4757850

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RIGHTS Rights 1 - 3 World

Dad's at Home

978981 1700545

978981 1700521

32 pp

210 x 260 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 14.90

Rights World 25

Picture Books Backlist 1

2

The Rock and the Bird Chew Chia Shao Wei & Anngee Neo 978981 0755553 SGD $ 16.90

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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

Tibby, the Tiger Bunny Emily Lim & Jade Fang 978981 0758349 SGD $ 14.90

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A New Home for Bo Bo and Cha Cha Jason Erik Lundberg & Patrick Yee

Bo Bo and Cha Cha’s Big Day Out Jason Erik Lundberg & Patrick Yee

Bo Bo and Cha Cha and the New Year Gift Jason Erik Lundberg & Patrick Yee

Bo Bo and Cha Cha Cook Up a Storm Jason Erik Lundberg & Patrick Yee

Bo Bo and Cha Cha and the Lost Child Jason Erik Lundberg & Patrick Yee

978981 0739980 SGD $ 14.90

978981 0755508 SGD $ 14.90

978981 0767099 SGD $ 14.90

978981 4615334 SGD $ 14.90

978981 4615358 SGD $ 14.90

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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 SGD $ 16.90

978981 0731816 SGD $ 16.90

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A Boy Named Harry: The Childhood of Lee Kuan Yew Patrick Yee

Harry Grows Up: The Early Years of Lee Kuan Yew Patrick Yee

Harry Builds a Nation: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew Patrick Yee

978981 4615297 SGD $ 14.90

978981 4615310 SGD $ 14.90

978981 4615433 SGD $ 14.90

*Also available in Chinese

*Also available in Chinese

*Also available in Chinese

1 Winner, Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2015

Awards

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Winner, Best Young Adults' Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016 First Prize, 2009 Commonwealth Essay Competition, Royal Commonwealth Society

2 Winner, Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2013

9 Shortlisted, Best Children's Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016

8 Shortlisted, Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2013

22 2nd Prize, Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2015, English (Children) Category

Selected title for Read!

Singapore 2013

Picture Books Backlist 6

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Tibby and Duckie Emily Lim & Jade Fang 978981 4615716 SGD $ 14.90

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The Robot in My Playground Pauline Loh & Avina Tan 978981 0755836 SGD $ 14.90

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A Curious Bundle for Bo Bo and Cha Cha Jason Erik Lundberg & Patrick Yee

Fann Patrick Yee 978981 0726171 SGD $ 24.90

978981 4615372 SGD $ 14.90

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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 Very Solid Adventures of Handsome Hock and Champion Poh Phua San San

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 0755850 SGD $ 14.90

978981 0778675 SGD $ 14.90

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978981 4615822 SGD $ 14.90

978981 4615853 SGD $ 14.90

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Little Red in the Hood Glen Goei & Drewscape 978981 0732233 SGD $ 16.90

The Great Dragon Warrior Ng Swee San & Wen Dee Tan

Karung Guni Boy Lorraine Tan & Eric Wong Grandma and the Things That Stay the Same Eve Aw & Yunroo

Justice Bao: The Case of the Missing Coin Catherine Khoo

978981 4655392 SGD $ 14.90

978981 0758103 SGD $ 14.90

1 World except German language & Tamil language in Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Canada and United Kingdom.

2 World except Korean language

Tokoyo: The Tomb of the Sea Serpent Catherine Khoo & Teressa Ong

978981 4615839 SGD $ 14.90

978981 0767112 SGD $ 14.90

3 World except Simplified Chinese language 4&5 World except Tamil language in Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Canada and United Kingdom.

7 & 28 World except Tamil language in Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Canada and United Kingdom 6, 8 - 27, 29, 30 World

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Picture Books Backlist

Stories from Around the World 1

Blanket Travel Kim Da-Jeong 978981 0732189

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2

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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

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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

Early Readers

JULY

ANG KU KUEH GIRL & FRIENDS #2

The Kan Cheong Spider Wang Shijia In The Kan Cheong Spider, Ang Ku Kueh Girl, her brother, Ang Ku Kueh Boy and Red Egg go on a delicious new adventure. But something awful happens to Ang Ku Kueh Boy, and it’s up to Ang Ku Kueh Girl and Red Egg to get him out of trouble.

Wang Shijia has been creating Singaporethemed accessories as a hobby since 2003.

She reinterprets Singaporean food culture and heritage as characters in a light-hearted manner, seeking to bring joy and happiness to the world through her charmingly illustrated characters Ang Ku Kueh Girl® and FriendsTM.

ALSO IN THE SERIES

Shijia’s Ang Ku Kueh Girl® and FriendsTM have appeared in the Jubilee Baby Gift campaign, educational posters, a colouring book, family card games, wrapping paper and other gift items, and Shijia is also the designer for the official birth certificate and folder for SG50 babies born in 2015.

RIGHTS The Magical Dragon Playground

Rights World

978981 4655987

978981 4757126 48pp

152 x 229 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 12.90

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Early Readers

SEPTEMBER

UNDERSTANDING SINGAPOREANS #1

UNDERSTANDING SINGAPOREANS #2

Why Do the Chinese Why Don't Malays Shout "Yam Seng"? Eat Pork?

978981 4655682

978981 4655712

44 pp

152 x 229 mm Paperback

44 pp

152 x 229 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 12.90

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$ 12.90

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Why do the Chinese eat tang yuan? Why do Malays eat only with their right hands?

Why are all Sikh men named Singh? What is feng (no, it’s not a Chinese word)? These handbooks of questions covers everything everyone wants to know (but are afraid to ask) about Singapore’s melting pot of culture and traditions.

Early Readers

SEPTEMBER

UNDERSTANDING SINGAPOREANS #3

UNDERSTANDING SINGAPOREANS #4

Why Do Indians Dot Why Do Eurasians Their Forehead?

Love Sugee Cake?

The books form a series of four illustrated books of twenty questions and answers specially curated by the Epigram Books editorial team to promote understanding of Singapore’s different races and their customs.

978981 4655699

978981 4655705

44 pp

152 x 229 mm Paperback

44 pp

152 x 229 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 12.90

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$ 12.90

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Chapter Books

JUNE

32

Chapter Books

JUNE

SHERLOCK SAM #10

Sherlock Sam and the Comic Book Caper in New York A.J. Low Sherlock Sam travels overseas once again, this time to the United States. As the Supper Club attend the San Diego Comic-Con, a piece of experimental technology is stolen by a real-life superhero turned real-life supervillain! Tag along with Sherlock Sam, Watson and the rest of the gang as they rush across the country to rescue the priceless technology from the clutches of evil.

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.

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.

978981 4615907 200 pp 140 x 215 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 10.90

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Chapter Books

JULY

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Chapter Books

JULY

DANGER DAN AND GADGET GIRL #2

The Watery Wipeout Lesley-Anne & Monica Lim

A mysterious water-borne disease is plaguing Singapore in 2135 and the blame has fallen on Melody’s brilliant brother, Bob. Danny and Melody have a slippery task at hand—to get to the bottom of the outbreak and prove Bob’s innocence…while keeping Dog a secret.

In The Watery Wipeout, Danger Dan, Gadget Girl and Power Paws navigate underground tunnels, break mind-boggling codes and even get to ride on a Hover Cab! They discover that future Singapore is an island of never-ending thrills and spills. Follow the superhero trio as they go on a heart-stopping quest to prevent Singapore from breaking out in little red spots!

Lesley-Anne Tan & Monica Lim are a daughter-and-mother writing team.

Sometimes their roles seem reversed; LesleyAnne 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 Rights World Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Animal Abduction 978981 4757027

978981 4757041 136pp

140 x 215 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 10.90

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Chapter Books

OCTOBER

DANGER DAN AND GADGET GIRL #3

The Gruesome Garden Lesley-Anne & Monica Lim Dog is lost, and Danny and Melody have to race against time to find him in the heart of the Botanic Gardens before the authorities get to him first. To make matters worse, Dog is ill, Melody meets her worst feathery fear, and Danny has his very own plant predicament‌ with bean sprouts.

In The Gruesome Garden, Danger Dan, Gadget Girl and Power Paws are in a leafy mess! A secret evil has taken root among the plants in 2135, causing them to grow monstrously huge. Join the superheroes as they untangle themselves from this overgrown problem!

ALSO IN THE SERIES 1

Lesley-Anne Tan & Monica Lim are a daughter-and-mother writing team.

Sometimes their roles seem reversed; LesleyAnne 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.

2

Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Animal Abduction

Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Watery Wipeout

978981 4757027

978981 4757041

978981 4757065 136 pp 140 x 215 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 10.90

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Chapter Books

OCTOBER

SHERLOCK SAM #11

Sherlock Sam and the Quantum Pair In Queenstown A. J. Low The Supper Club encounter strange and impossible phenomena near Dad’s workplace, and Sherlock Sam suspects that the weirdness is caused by alternate realities bleeding into his own. Together with Watson and the rest of the Supper Club, Sherlock Sam works to stop universes from colliding, lest they face a crisis of infinite Watsons spouting sarcasm everywhere they turn!

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.

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.

978981 1700644 144 pp 140 x 215 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 10.90

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Chapter Books

OCTOBER

SHERLOCK SAM #11.5

Sherlock Sam and the Orange Shorts A. J. Low This special collection of short stories gives a glimpse of the alternative realities introduced in Sherlock Sam and the Quantum Pair in Queenstown, where different versions of the gang throughout time and space exist, from Õnãy-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 Backlist

The Diary of Amos Lee Adeline Foo 1

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Awards

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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1 Red Dot Award 2009 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

Seoul Searching!

978981 4615396 SGD $ 12.90

Monkeying in Malaysia!

978981 0794194 SGD $ 12.90

Lost in Taipei!

978981 0778729 SGD $ 12.90

The Whoopie Lee Series

978981 4655842 SGD $ 12.90

RIGHTS Rights 1 World except Slovakia, China (simplified Chinese language) 3 World except Indonesian language

Adeline Foo 10

Quokking in Australia!

11

1-5 World except Turkish 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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Chapter Books Backlist

Danger Dan Lesley-Anne & Monica Lim 1

2

3

4

Awards 5 Shortlisted, Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2015 Danger Dan Confronts the Merlion Mastermind 978981 0778439 SGD $ 10.90 5

Danger Dan Tackles the Majulah Mayhem 978981 0785024 SGD $ 10.90

Danger Dan Spooks the Peculiar Peranakan Pirate 978981 4615211 SGD $ 10.90

6

Danger Dan Traces the Perilous Poison 978981 4615235 SGD $ 10.90

6 Shortlisted, Best Non-Fiction Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016

RIGHTS Rights 1 - 7

Danger Dan Creates the Ultimate Utama Uproar

Secrets of Singapore 978981 4615877 SGD $ 14.90

978981 4615259 SGD $ 10.90

Danger Dan & Gadget Girl Lesley-Anne & Monica Lim 7

Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Animal Abduction 978981 4757027 SGD $ 10.90

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World

Chapter Books Backlist

Sherlock Sam A. J. Low 1

2

3

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

978981 0747503

978981 0751296

978981 0758899

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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

RIGHTS

Sherlock Sam and the Alien Encounter on Pulau Ubin

Sherlock Sam and the Vanished Robot in Penang

Sherlock Sam and the Cloaked Classmate in Macritchie

Rights

978981 0766740

978981 0769178

978981 0778651

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Sherlock Sam and the Stolen Script in Balestier

Sherlock Sam and the Fiendish Mastermind in Jurong

Sherlock Sam and the Obento Bonanza in Tokyo

Price

978981 4655330

978981 4615679

978981 4615846

9 SGD $ 10.90

1-8 SGD $ 9.90

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Young Adult

JULY

MOUNT EMILY #2

Mount Emily Revisited Low Ying Ping Best friends Patsy Goh and Elena Tan are whisked back in time to 1988. Now, they’re on a mission to save their friends who have been kidnapped by a member of the Midnight Warriors cult. Patsy also makes a startling discovery about herself that might just change her life forever…

Mount Emily Revisited is the second in a series of books which centre on two timetraveling 13-year-old students at Mount Emily Girls’ School. The books feature time travel with a strong focus on female teen friendship whilst exploring the girls’ family backgrounds and how they deal with their very different problems.

ALSO IN THE SERIES

RIGHTS Mount Emily 978981 4655934

978981 4757164 224 pp 130 x 200 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 12.90

Rights World 42

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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 second novel.

Young Adult Backlist

Triple Nine Sleuths Maranna Chan 1

2

3

4

5

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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$ 10.90

$ 12.90

Awards Bronze Award, Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 2011 Silver Award, Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 2012

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Graphic Novels Backlist

Graphic Novels 1

2

LKY: Political Cartoons Morgan Chua

Tiananmen: 25th Anniversary Edition Morgan Chua

978981 0791759 (pbk) SGD $ 24.90 1

978981 0779276 SGD $ 24.90

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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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978981 0731076 SGD $ 18.90

Date King #2: Mating Season Adrian Teo & Kenfoo

978981 0766054 SGD $ 9.90

978981 0769215 SGD $ 9.90

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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye Sonny Liew

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye Sonny Liew

978981 4655200 SGD $ 24.90

978981 4655675 SGD $ 34.90

978981 4655866 SGD $ 44.90

Original Paperback

Hardcover

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Date King #1: Singapore Dating Adrian Teo & Kenfoo

6 Bronze, 7th International Manga Awards

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

12

978981 0731090 SGD $ 18.90

Jerks Won’t Give You Flowers Moderna de Pueblo

Awards 9

8 Monsters, Miracles & Mayonnaise Drewscape

Scenegapore Miel

10

The Girl Under the Bed Dave Chua & Xiao Yan

6

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

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

AUGUST

A Life in Words You Jin

“For many years, I have made my living by the pen. In 2005, when my autobiography was published in Chinese, I gave it the title《文字 就是生命》or A Life in Words. These words encapsulate the beautiful connection between me and my lifelong devotion to the literary arts. Literature and I have transformed into a single entity, and I can feel Chinese characters bobbing along through my veins.” —You Jin You Jin has published more than 150 books in Chinese in Singapore, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Malaysia. These include novels, short story collections, travelogues and essays.

She is the first recipient of both the Singapore Chinese Literary Award and the MontblancNUS Centre for the Arts Literary Award. She received the Zhong Shan Literary Award in 2010 and Singapore’s Cultural Medallion in 2009.

978981 4615457 288 pp 152 x 225 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 24.90

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Non-Fiction

AUGUST

SINGAPORE CLASSICS

Eye on the World Tan Kok Seng

Eye on the World is the third and concluding volume of Tan Kok Seng’s autobiography, where he and his young family go to bustling Hong Kong. He writes with endearing honesty about a place that seems a lot like home, yet is vastly different in many ways, and this affectionate sense of observation is carried through a round-the-world trip he embarks on.

Told from the perspective of a Singaporean everyman, Kok Seng’s stories and reflections about the world are told in charmingly simple prose, enriched by his penchant for looking at the people and things around him with eyes wide open.

Tan Kok Seng is the well-known author of a trilogy of books based on his life: Son of Singapore, Man of Malaysia and Eye on the World. His fourth book is a novel, Three Sisters of Sze, originally published by Heinemann Asia in 1979.

978981 1700620 210 pp 130 x 200 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 17.90

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Tan’s books were all written first in Chinese and afterwards ‘rendered into English’ in a collaborative effort with his former employer, Austin Coates, for whom Tan worked in Malaysia and Hong Kong. Although his four books were reprinted several times since their first publication, they were out of print for many years. The books are now available from Epigram Books.

Tan resides in Singapore with his family.

Non-Fiction

OCTOBER

Mum Is Where the Heart Is You Jin 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 brilliant colours to even the most mundane of life’s scenes.

You Jin has published more than 150 books in Chinese in Singapore, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Malaysia. These include novels, short story collections, travelogues and essays. She is the first recipient of both the Singapore Chinese Literary Award and the Montblanc-NUS Centre for the Arts Literary Award. She received the Zhong Shan Literary Award in 2010 and Singapore’s Cultural Medallion in 2009.

978981 4615471 256 pp 152 x 225 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 24.90

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Non-Fiction

NOVEMBER

Dying to Meet You Angjolie Mei

An attractive young woman decides to leave a shining career, only to serve in an industry that’s—quite literally—dead.

Funeral director Angjolie Mei, heiress of a legacy left by her late father, known in the Singaporean funeral industry as ‘The Coffin King’, takes us through an insider’s view of the death business, taking us through the embalming process, post-death restoration for second-degree burn victims, and even littleknown facts surrounding suicide in Singapore, and reflects on how her perceptions of death, and life, have changed since she chose this extraordinary profession.

Angjolie Mei 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 Singapore funeral services industry.

978981 4757485 264 pp 152 x 225 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 34.90

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Non-Fiction

NOVEMBER

He Dared to Differ The Life and Legacy of Judge of Appeal M. Karthigesu

Niru Pillai He thought he would become a doctor, but life had a different calling for him, eventually leading to Justice M. Karthigesu’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1990. Written by litigation lawyer Niru Pillai, He Dared to Differ traces his beginnings in Johor Bahru, through his schooling in British Ceylon and university days in the United Kingdom, to his return and law practice in Singapore.

Niru Pillai is a lawyer in Singapore. He has been practicing for about 40 years and has also taught at the National University of Singapore.

978981 4757836 448 pp 152 x 225 mm

Hardcover SGD

$ 48.90

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Non-Fiction Backlist 1

2

3

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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Letters to Aly: Surviving My BFF’s Suicide Lee-Ann 978981 0768119 SGD $ 14.90

Adrift: My Childhood in Colonial Singapore David T. K. Wong

12

Not Born in Singapore: Fifty Personalities Who Shaped the Nation Tng Ying Hui 978981 4655415 (pbk) SGD $ 35.00

Iskandar Ismail: The Music Man Monica Gwee 978981 0768881 SGD $ 24.90

8

978981 4615983 SGD $ 27.90

11

4

978981 0811280 SGD $ 13.90

Malaysia Bagus!

Travels Through My Homeland Sharon Cheah

Awards

978981 0728182 SGD $ 19.90

978981 0724146 SGD $ 22.90

Hong Kong Fiascos: A Struggle for Survival David T. K. Wong 978981 4655569 SGD $ 27.90

10

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

14

Why? When Both My Parents Took Their Lives Yin 978981 0813130 SGD $ 16.90

15

Baby Zoey Olivia Chiong 978981 4655873 SGD $ 24.90

With Grace: Classic Lessons in Beauty, Style & Manners Elsa Yeo 978981 4655972 SGD $ 80.00

978981 4655996 (hardcv) SGD $ 45.00

50

Sushi and Tapas Pepukaye Bardouille & Neo Gim Huey

9

13

Fridays with Philip Philip Lee

5

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

RIGHTS

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Poetry & Playscript

AUGUST

FROM STAGE TO PRINT

The Eye of History Robert Yeo

On 5 July 1981, the statue of Sir Stamford Raffles leaves his pedestal and pays a visit to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s office at the Istana. What follows is a wide-ranging discussion by two of Singapore’s most towering figures that illustrates just how very human they were. This conversation, along with the introduction of Munshi Abdullah (author of the fascinating Hikayat Abdullah), provide a fascinating backdrop for the investigation of historical authority and grand narratives.

Robert Yeo has published poetry and a novel, staged plays, written essays on cultural policy and theatre, compiled anthologies on Singaporean literature and co-written books on the teaching of literature in secondary schools. Currently, he teaches creative writing at the Singapore Management University and mentors in the MAP programme of the National Arts Council. In 1978, he attended the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and was a Fulbright Scholar in 1995. From 1977 onwards, and for more than a decade, he was Chairman of the Drama Advisory Committee which helped to develop English-language theatre in Singapore, and for this work he was awarded the Public Service Medal in 1991.

978981 4757690 96 pp

145 x 210 mm Paperback

SGD

$ 13.90

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Poetry & Playscript

OCTOBER

We Contain Multitudes Twelve Years of Softblow

Cyril Wong, Eric Low, Jason Wee, Gwee Li Sui & Chris Ujine Ong The online poetry journal Softblow was founded in September 2004 by Cyril Wong and is co-edited with Eric Low and Jason Wee; past guest-editors also include Chris Ujine Ong and Gwee Li Sui. The journal is a home for contemporary poetry from all over the world and strives to focus the eye back on the poem itself; it is for unswerving lovers of verse.

This twelve-year retrospective of Softblow showcases Singaporean talents such as Boey Kim Cheng, Tania De Rozario, Joshua Ip, Koh Jee Leong, Chandran Nair, Pooja Nansi, Ng Yi-Sheng, Alvin Pang, Tse Hao Guang and Arthur Yap; as well as international voices such as Sherman Alexie, Jasmine Ann Cooray, Eric Thomas Norris, Kristine Ong Muslim, Laksmi Pamuntjak, Marge Piercy, Jeet Thayil, Tim Tomlinson and Ocean Vuong.

978981 4757737 464 pp 152 x 225 mm

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$ 27.90

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Singapore Pioneer Poets

This series is a showcase of the best works by local literary giants, featuring new and previously published poems.

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The Best of Edwin Thumboo

The Best of Robert Yeo

The Best of Kirpal Singh

978981 0718398

978981 0718404

978981 0718411

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$ 21.90

Poetry ‘The best post-1965 English-language poet in the republic today.’

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim author of Among the White Moon Faces

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World except Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea & Fiji

Price SGD

$ 19.90

Clear Brightness Boey Kim Cheng 978981 0741822

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From Stage to Print This series highlights Singaporean plays—hot off their productions, from classics to contemporary favourites.

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Price SGD Boom Jean Tay 978981 0840174

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Fear of Writing Tan Tarn How 978981 0714529

Those Who Can’t, Teach Haresh Sharma

Everything but the Brain Jean Tay

978981 0855109

978981 0855116

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A White Rose at Midnight Lim Chor Pee

$ 13.90

Mimi Fan Lim Chor Pee 978981 0714598

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Model Citizens Haresh Sharma 978981 0714611

978981 4615488

Playwright’s Omnibus

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This series is a career-encompassing collection of the finest dramatists to have entered the canon of Singaporean literature.

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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

978981 0756895 SGD $ 24.90

978981 0879778 SGD $ 25.90

978981 0884680 SGD $ 26.90

978981 0756918 SGD $ 16.90

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Food & Recipes

SEPTEMBER

Never Leave Home Without Your Bottle of Chilli Sauce Constance Singam Many of us associate home with the comforts of our mother’s kitchen. But food can represent so much more—it can reflect a nation’s history, culture and traditions, as well as society’s changing attitudes.

Constance Singam’s love and experience with home-cooking sees the evolution of food against a backdrop of Singapore’s social fabric over the past 70 years.

Constance Singam is an author and civil society activist. Her career path took her into journalism and teaching. She holds a Master’s degree in Literature. In the last thirty-five years, Constance has led women’s organizations, co-founded civil society groups, been a columnist in several national publications, and contributed to and coedited several books. Her works include A History of the TWC: Building Social Space in Singapore, Re-Presenting Singapore Women, which she co-edited, and her memoir Where I Was: A Memoir From the Margins.

978981 4655217 200 pp 180 x 235 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 39.90

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Food & Recipes Backlist

Food Books 1 NerdBaker: Extraordinary Recipes, Stories & Baking Adventures from a True Oven Geek Christopher Tan

2 Plusixfive: A Singaporean Supper Club Cookbook Goz Lee & Friends 978981 0759063 SGD $ 44.90

978981 4615778 SGD $ 44.90

3 Artichoke: Recipes and Stories from Singapore’s Most Rebellious Kitchen Bjorn Shen 978981 0797737 SGD $ 44.90

5 The End of Char Kway Teow and Other Hawker Mysteries Dr Leslie Tay 978981 0865153 SGD $ 24.90

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4 Onaka: Vibrant Recipes from a Wholesome Restaurant Rosalind Lim & Jason Vito 978981 4615525 SGD $ 39.90

6 Mum’s Not Cooking!

Favourite Singaporean Recipes for the Near Clueless or Plain Lazy Denise Fletcher 978981 0897321 SGD $ 20.90

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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

RIGHTS Award 1 Shortlisted, Best Book Cover Design, Singapore Book Awards 2016 2 Winners, Best Chef Cookbook, & Best Illustrations Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2014, Singapore

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Heritage Cookbooks The award-winning Heritage Cookbooks series showcases the best of Singapore’s major cuisines through authentic family recipes.

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Irene’s Peranakan Recipes Irene Yeo & Elaine Yeo

978981 0716165

978981 0570156

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Robin’s Eurasian Recipes Robin Pereira & Quentin Pereira

Madam Krishnan’s South Indian Recipes Ambrose Krishnan & Padma Krishnan

978981 0842741

978981 0897352

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Uncle Lau’s Teochew Recipes Lau Chiap Khai & Tan Lee Leng

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Madam Choy’s Cantonese Recipes Choy Wai Yuen & Lulin Reutens

Uncle Anthony’s Hokkien Recipes Anthony Loo Hock Chye & Samantha Lee

978981 0594022

978981 0797980

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RIGHTS Award 1 Winner, Best Chinese Cuisine Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2012, Singapore

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Wee Editions

SEPTEMBER

Epigram: The Art of the Annual Report Edmund Wee Epigram revolutionized the design of the annual report in Singapore and is best known for turning these humdrum corporate publications into witty and imaginative works of art. In 2007, it became the first agency in the world to win the Grand Prix in Visual Communications two years in a row at the Red Dot Awards in Germany. In this retrospective volume, founder Edmund Wee gives an insight into some groundbreaking reports and reflects on the most difficult part of his job— persuading the client to accept the creative concept.

Edmund Wee founded Epigram twenty-five years ago after leaving The Straits Times as its Design Editor. He had earlier been a government psychologist working with drug addicts and prisoners. In his role as managing and creative director of Epigram, he was awarded “Designer of the Year” in the 2008 President’s Design Awards, Singapore’s highest honours for designers. He is now the publisher at Epigram Books.

978981 4757997 416 pp 180 x 230 mm

Paperback SGD

$ 59.90

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Wee Editions

OCTOBER

Beyond Wilderness Chua Chye Teck

In Beyond Wilderness, Chye Teck explores Singapore’s fast disappearing natural wilderness through a series of black and white photographs. Using the forest to depict emotional layers, his photographs reflect on memory and transformation, and present the dualities of isolation and the unknown. Artistic and spiritual all at once, Beyond Wilderness is as much one man’s personal encounter with nature as it is a social commentary about the fast-changing landscape of a modern society.

Chua Chye Teck has been an artist for close to twenty years, specialising in both sculpture and photography. He draws inspiration from the environment and used objects, giving new life to them through carefully curated presentations. His philosophy is in representing rather than in altering the original form of the object.

978981 4655316 100 pp 170 x 235 mm

Hardcover SGD

$ 42.00

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Wee Editions

OCTOBER

OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS #9

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— was designated as an “identity node” by the Urban Redevelopment Authority in 2013. Its distinctive charm mixes rich heritage with a thriving presence; from a nameless Malay barber shop that has been kept in operation for more than 20 years because of its loyal customers, to the conserved shophouses that have become synonymous with the area.

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We Love Toa Payoh

We Love Katong

We Love Queenstown

978981 0736231

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978981 0766016

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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.

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We Love Little India

We Love Bedok

We Love Chinatown

978981 0778217

978981 0754327

978981 0778231

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Journey with Urban Sketchers Singapore through this quiet and laidback suburban estate, where nostalgia and modern convenience seamlessly blend into a unique atmosphere unlike anywhere else in Singapore.

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978981 1700569

RIGHTS We Love Tiong Bahru

We Love Geylang Serai

978981 0736255

978981 4615181

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96 pp

125 x 175 mm Paperback

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$ 12.90

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Wee Editions Backlist

Wee Editions An imprint featuring works by Singaporean designers, photographers and artists in compact coffee table books.

1 Seasons Thomas Lim

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978981 4615792 SGD $ 119.90

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2 Our Gurkhas: Singapore Through Their Eyes Zakaria Zainal 978981 0730260 SGD $ 24.90

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Cocks Ernest Goh

100 Singaporeans Wesley Loh Kar-Wai

978981 0756260 SGD $ 24.90

978981 0731205 SGD $ 24.90

RIGHTS 5 The Fish Book Ernest Goh 978981 0883607 SGD $ 24.90

Rights 1 - 2, 4 - 5 World 3 Singapore & Malaysia

Colouring Books Reinvent, reimagine and rediscover familiar sights and local haunts with these colouring books.

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Homes of the Holy

Picturesque Shophouses

978981 4757522

978981 4757539

978981 4615181

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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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White

Beige

Khaki

Silver

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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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Cerulean

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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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Jaguar Green

Bondi Blue

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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.

Rose-tint

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Singapore Red

Leather Brown

Pink

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A5 size 148 x 210 mm 128 pp Ruled on Right Matt Flexi-bound & Threadsewn

A5 size 148 x 210 mm 128 pp Blank Matt Flexi-bound & Threadsewn

A6 size 105 x 148 mm 128 pp Blank 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.

Gunmetal Grey

Denim

Sky Blue

Eggshell Blue

Turquoise

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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.

Lime

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Saffron

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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.

Magenta

Violet

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I AM NOT IMPULSIVE. I AM SPONTANEOUS.

I AM NOT GRUMPY. I AM MARRIED.

Amethyst

Purple

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I AM NOT INDECISIVE. I AM KEEPING MY OPTIONS OPEN. Indigo

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