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Heartland is the first novel written by Daren Shiau. [1] Heartland deals with the paradox of rootedness and rootlessness of Singaporeans born after the Japanese Occupation. [1] The book received the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1998, [2] together with Alfian Sa'at's Corridor. Heartland was named by Singapore's English daily ...
Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore. First edition. Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore is a collection of seventeen short stories by Singapore author Catherine Lim. It was first published in 1978 in Singapore by Heinemann [ 1] under the Writing in Asia Series and earned the writer many accolades. It is Lim's first published book of fiction.
The Singapore Grip is a satirical book about events following Japan's entry into the Second World War by invading South East Asia and swiftly occupying Singapore. The story centres on a British family who control one of the colony's leading trading companies. The title derives from a slang phrase for a sexual technique also known as pompoir or ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Lewis Carroll. Children's Novel/Adventure. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in the province of Hunan, China by the KMT 's government, beginning in 1931, due to its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals which act with the same level of complexity as human beings.
National Library Board. National Library Building is the headquarters of the National Library Board. The National Library Board ( NLB) is a statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Digital Development and Information of the government of Singapore. The board manages the public libraries throughout the country.
The Scent of the Gods. Scorpion Orchid. The Serpent's Tooth (novel) The Shrimp People. The Singapore Grip. South by Java Head.
Willis' Singapore Guide. Willis' Singapore Guide, also titled Willis' Guide to Singapore, was a tourist guidebook targeted at sailors visiting Singapore. First published in 1934, it was written by A. C. Willis of the Marine Hostel in Singapore.
Girl Guides Singapore (GGS; Malay: Pandu Puteri Singapura) is the national Guiding organisation of Singapore. It was first established in 1917 as The Singapore Girl Guides Association, before being renamed to its current iteration on 24 July 2004. The girls-only organisation became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl ...