'OTHERS' IS NOT A RACE (3RD PRINTING)
Regular price $19.00'OTHERS' IS NOT A RACE (3RD PRINTING)
by Melissa De Silva
published by Math Paper Press
*
What is a Eurasian? Are Eurasians Singaporean? What does it mean to be a Eurasian living in Singapore?
While having existed in Singapore as long as any other community, Eurasians, who comprise less than one percent of the population, still remain a fairly obscure group to many Singaporeans.
'OTHERS' IS NOT A RACE is a tapestry that weaves together the multiple genres of narrative fiction, creative nonfiction, literary food writing and family memoir, to offer insight into the micro-minority Eurasian community through the intensely personal lens of the writer's own experience living and growing up as a Eurasian in Singapore. Throughout are interwoven the themes of memory, loss, language, identity and cultural reclamation.
Similarly, it is a reflective and provocative journey of self-discovery; a journey the reader may also take to explore what it means to exist at the confluence of being Singaporean and being Eurasian, and to interrogate the liminal space between two cultures, Asian and European, occupied by this community
【預購】夜畫帳（第九卷）◎Byeonduck（譯者：吳芷容）
Regular price $32.00【預購】責任【橫溝正史推理暨恐怖大獎優秀獎】◎淺野皓生（譯者：沈俊傑）
Regular price $36.00Not So Little Red Dot: 60 Years of Singapore’s Diplomacy◎Peh Shing Huei (Editor)
Regular price $35.00Singapore operates in a dangerous world — a world where might is right, where the strong eat the weak, and where small countries are, all too often, expected to submit to a brutish order.
This is the harsh reality that Singapore diplomats have faced over the past 60 years of the nation’s independence. Yet, they have clung resolutely to the belief that Singapore has the right to determine its own future. Amid violence and volatility, generations of foreign service officers have steadfastly advanced Singapore’s interests on the global stage — while remaining clear-sighted about the nature of the world we live in.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has played a critical role in charting Singapore’s path to prosperity through crisis and conflict. Ironically, its work remains largely invisible to the public. Not So Little Red Dot: 60 Years of Singapore’s Diplomacy is an attempt to peel back the curtain on six decades of foreign policy, and the men and women who have made it possible. The book spotlights seven episodes largely from the 21st century that illustrate key tenets of Singapore’s approach:
Each chapter offers an accessible reading experience by blending comics from veteran artist Cheah Sinann and prose written by a team of seven writers from The Nutgraf. The content and communications agency was behind bestselling titles such as The First Fools: B-Sides of Lee Kuan Yew’s A-Team. Not So Little Red Dot: 60 Years of Singapore’s Diplomacy is authorised by MFA to celebrate its 60th anniversary.
沈望傅：留给我们的印记（华文版）◎李太里主编
Regular price $27.00人間慈悲◎語凡
Regular price $25.00《人間慈悲》是一本反戰的詩集，同時希望為弱者發聲並期盼人間的愛與慈悲。詩集分為四輯。
〈專輯1：人間慈悲〉書寫發生在加沙的人道災難，巴勒斯坦人民的苦難與不幸。
〈專輯2：戰爭的諸神〉書寫戰爭以各種形式和面向發生，彷彿無處不在，詩引領我們去發現真相。
〈專輯3：只是為了安靜〉書寫生命如何面對戰亂與死亡、如何與之抗衡。
〈專輯4：阿母〉書寫孩子與母親的關係，複雜的人性和故事。
作者簡介
語凡，新加坡文藝協會副會長，《新加坡文藝報》主編，至今出版11本詩集、1本散文詩集、1本散文集。曾經獲得新加坡文學獎（詩）、方修文學獎（詩）、金筆獎（短篇小說）、2023年台灣時報文學獎（詩、）台灣詩學2018與2025年創作獎散文詩佳作獎，台灣華文現代詩五週年詩獎正獎、第二節陳贊一博士世界華文微型小說創作獎、全球華文文學星雲獎（詩）等。
煙火歲月自在行：龐琳傳記（簡體）◎龐琳
Regular price $31.00 《煙火歲月自在行》是一部跨越時代與地域的生命紀實，記錄了新加坡口福集團創辦人龐琳先生，從結霜橋草根少年、“跑地牛、走江湖”的闖蕩人生，一路走到醒悟、奮鬥、成長、學佛、創業、成家、歷經勝敗、涅槃重生，乃至終身學習、成就事業的真實歷程。
本書不僅是龐琳個人的奮鬥之書，更是一代獅城子弟在時代洪流中立足新加坡、紮根家國的生命史。全書以海南望族的祖源爲起點，娓娓道出童年的貧苦掙扎、江湖社會的生存智慧、創業路上的風雨歷程，以及口福品牌的創建初心與宏願。書中也展現了龐琳如何秉持“精緻美食、優質生活、圓滿人生”的企業哲學，凝聚團隊、拓展品牌、推動企業與社會共榮共進。
《煙火歲月自在行》不僅講述商戰中的得失與智慧，更傳遞一種溫潤人心的價值觀：飲水思源、敬祖愛親、勇於承擔、回饋社會。它是一封寫給下一代的家書，也是一份獻給新加坡建國60週年、寫給人間煙火的真情答卷。
Streets & Places of Singapore 1 & 2: Works originally written in English◎Ang Lai Sheng (Editor)
Regular price $10.00This booklet brings together the original English works from Streets & Places of Singapore Volumes 1 and 2. The two anthologies were envisioned as a way of mapping Singapore through literature—capturing how streets and places carry history, memory, and imagination. Published in Chinese, they highlight the city as seen through the lens of Chinese literary expression, while also embracing works that were first written in English and lovingly translated into Chinese.
About the Editor
Ang Lai Sheng (汪来昇, 1987–) is a Singaporean writer, translator, publisher, and columnist, and the Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief of TrendLit Publishing. His works and essays have been published across Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. He is the author of the poetry collections After Commotion, The Void (2014) and Destroy All Gods (2016), and editor of anthologies including Never Before – 50 Essential Poems (2018), Streets & Places of Singapore (Vol. 1 & 2, 2022, 2025), and Impressions of Singapore (2023). He is also the Chinese-language translator of Anything but Human (2025) and The World May Say This, But I Believe That! (2025).
Beyond his publications, Ang champions emerging voices, fosters cross-cultural literary dialogue, and conducts workshops and talks for writers and educators. He has twice served as Writer-in-Residence for the Ministry of Education’s Chinese Language Elective Programme and was honoured with the 2023 NTU School of Humanities Alumni Award for his contributions to literature and publishing.
Authors
Alvin Pang／Daryl Lim Wei Jie／Shawn Hoo／Yeow Kai Chai／Yong Shu Hoong ／Yvonne Tham
Contents
Editor’s Forword
1. Around the Lake I Go ◎ Yong Shu Hoong
2. Hwi Yoh Trilling ◎ Shawn Hoo
3. Katong ◎ Alvin Pang
4. Kelip-kelip: An Entomologist’s Field Recording at Changi Village Circa 2007 ◎ Yeow Kai Chai
5. My Kind of Town ◎ Daryl Lim Wei Jie
6.
Toa Payoh Lorong 8 ◎ Yvonne Tham
____
ISBN: 978-981-94-4467-0
Publisher: TrendLit Publishing Private Limited
Published Date: October 2025
Suggest Classification: Creative Non-Fiction, Singapore Literature, Locative Writing
Email: contact@trendlitpublishing.com
Barracks to Boardroom: Climbing The Greasy Pole◎Liew Mun Leong
Regular price $39.00I Am Not Good Enough◎Ismail Gafoor & Low Shi Ping
Regular price $28.00思索的長度◎李慧玲（簡體）
Regular price $35.00華文媒體集團社長李慧玲，從1994年入行迄今三十餘載，與當下遇見的風雲人物進行訪談，凝練他們的人生智慧，見諸報章——“這一輩子，我大概只學着做一件事：就是從事新聞工作。”
這本書收集記者多篇人物專訪，既有她在新加坡、中國和美國遇到的人物故事與看法，間接也反映工作三十餘年的新聞人站在前線的思索歷程，涵括政治、人文、科學、藝術、商貿、飲食、體育等各領域。
新聞重在當下，反映一個時代的關懷與主弦律。三十年下來，省思吾土，尋索他鄉，在更長的時間尺度裏，新聞自有其歷史中的含義。
吾土篇：陳智龍、楊榮文、詹時中、許通美、潘受、鄞昌濤、林清如、李顯龍、周賢正、吳作棟、王瑞傑
他鄉篇：高錕、馬雲、張信剛、彭作義、張瑞敏、葉劉淑儀、李雲迪、姜文、劉以鬯、吳家瑋、傅瑩、李君如、戚發軔、黃春平、陳德銘、吳青、董振祥、袁行霈、陳平原、劉遠立、傅高義
雙語圖片集 奠基人足跡：新中建交30年 (In the Founders’ Footsteps: Singapore-China Diplomatic Relations)◎李慧玲 主編 （簡體）（平裝版）
Regular price $40.002020年是新中建交30年週年，《聯合早報》和華文媒體集團旗下英文電子雜誌“思想中國”（ThinkChina）推出雙語圖片集《奠基人足跡：新中建交30年》。新加坡已故建國總理李光耀和中國已故領導人鄧小平是當代新中關係的奠基人，談及兩國關係，不能不提起這兩位領航者之間的交往。這本全綵雙語圖片集循着奠基人的足跡回溯兩國友誼。
A bilingual pictorial retracing the footsteps of the founders of Singapore and China, to commemorate 30 years of diplomatic relations of the two countries.
Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World◎Ooi Kee Beng
Regular price $28.00About the Book
Malaysia is no easy country to analyse, or even to understand. With so many narratives about the country, its peoples, and its histories, the noise generated — both online and off — can be as deafening as that of any rave party.
Since 2019, Malaysians have lived through a unique period in the country’s history. Amid the Covid pandemic and its many challenges, Malaysia experienced three prime minister changes, and countless other political dramas and plot twists.
Signals in the Noise is not just a book on politics, though. Moving with ease between different sociopolitical and socioeconomic discourses, this collection of Ooi Kee Beng’s columns and commentaries — published between 2019 and 2023 — showcases more than ever his talent as a historian and philosopher, alongside his prowess as a political scientist. This wide-ranging collection is a must-read beginner's guide to Malaysian politics. It also highlights Ooi’s love for his hometown of Penang, his concern for the environment, and how the arts define a society and its perceptions of the world.
About the Author
Dato’ Dr Ooi Kee Beng is Executive Director of Penang Institute. He entered think tank work in 2004 and was Deputy Director of Singapore’s ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in 2011-2017, where he remains attached as Visiting Senior Fellow. His homepage can be found at wikibeng.com.
The Story Game◎Shze-Hui Tjoa
Regular price $30.00About the Book
In the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on a mattress telling stories about herself to her listener, a little girl. She talks about her identity as the child of an immigrant, her feelings about being in a mixed-race marriage, her opinions on mental health. But as her stories progress, it becomes clear a volatile secret lurks beneath their surface. There are events in Hui’s past that have great significance for the person she’s become, but that have gone missing from her memory. What is it, exactly, that is haunting Hui? Who is the little girl she talks to? And who is Hui herself?
As the conversation continues, what unfolds is a breathtaking, unexpected journey through layers of story toward truth and recovered identity; a memoir that reenacts, in tautly novelistic fashion, the process of healing that author Shze-Hui Tjoa moved through to recover memories lost to complex PTSD and, eventually, reconstruct her sense of self. Stunning in its originality and intimacy, The Story Game is a piercing tribute to selfhood and sisterhood, a genre-shattering testament to the power of imagination, and a one-of-a-kind work of art.
Praise for The Story Game
"A unique memoir that constantly undermines and reworks itself as it braids together episodes from the author's life, a destabilising approach that calls into question how accurately we can remember the past while we are still processing it."
Jeremy Tiang, writer and translator
Reading The Story Game is nothing short of an immense privilege. Shze-Hui Tjoa writes with her heart on her sleeve and the sanctity of her soul risked on every page. I wish every writer could pay testament to life—and our tricky relationship to the writing of life—the way she has done so earnestly, thoughtfully and playfully here.
Daryl Qilin Yam, writer, editor and author of Be Your Own Bae
Shze-Hui Tjoa has written a book that understands that stories are built out of erasure and silence, but they are also made from a relentless belief in transformation. To tell the story, again. And maybe this time, we might finally reveal what is hidden, even from ourselves. What a beautiful, brave act this book is of reclaiming, forgiving but also of un-naming. Sometimes stories teach us to say yes. This one reminds me we can also say No.
Lawrence Ypil, author of The Experiment of the Tropics
The Story Game is a truly inventive memoir told in the form of autobiographical essays that ask what it means to be political in body and mind while aspiring to always be more than we are. Nothing is as it seems in this memoir that’s both reflexive and reflective, and Shze-Hui Tjoa’s careful excavation of disembodiment’s nature knits together the very mind-body separation her memoir interrogates in a journey of healing that will have the reader questioning the narratives we cling to in order to survive. What emerges is an act of courage, confrontation, and intimacy rendered in beautiful, lucid prose.
Jemimah Wei, author of The Original Daughter
About the Author
Shze-Hui Tjoa is a Singaporean writer who lives in Edinburgh, UK. Her debut, The Story Game, was named a best nonfiction book of 2024 by Electric Literature and Paste Magazine when it was first published in the US and Canada. Shze-Hui is an editor at Guernica and Adi Magazine. Her writing has received support from arts organisations in the US, Portugal, Singapore, and Morocco. You can read her author interviews and find out more about her creative philosophy via her website, www.tjoashzehui.com.
City Of Rain◎Alvin Pang
Regular price $22.00“One of Singapore’s most visible poets, Pang grows with each book. In his poems we hear a voice unhurried, confident, and capable of carrying diverse humors, and read a rhetoric shaded to ironies, surprising us with glimpses of contemporary experience that affirm yet mock, celebrate and unsettle. His poetry adds a rich and complex presence to the critical mass of urban literature now fully emergent from Singapore. His poems, at once recognizably national and international in reach, offer a fresh edgy energy to this tradition.”
- Professor Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, 1992 and author of Joss and Gold
Shezlez the Self-Proclaimed◎Marko Vignjević
Regular price $21.00Shezlez the Self-Proclaimed is an absurdist story about a poor man’s ambition to organise his own political party in an unnamed country characterised by moral apathy, poverty and heartless bureaucracy. Upon his first speech, so rousing as to attract the attention of the Progressive Party, Shezlez finds himself embroiled in a corrupt scheme of deceit and backstabbing in the leadup to the upcoming mayoral elections. A Machiavellian tale of political ambition, Shezlez the Self-Proclaimed examines the fickleness of loyalty, and interrogates the perennial question of whether the pursuit of power, no matter how idealistic its genesis, can ever remain a noble quest.
Heartland◎Daren Shiau
Regular price $24.00Hailed as “the definitive Singaporean novel”, this new edition of Heartland is accompanied by a new preface by author Daren Shiau and a publisher’s foreword that contextualises the novel’s imprint on the Singapore literary landscape since its first publication in 1999.
An iconic work, Heartland explores the paradox of rootedness and rootlessness in fast-changing Singapore. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows the years of Wing Seng as he leaves school and is conscripted into full-time National Service. As Wing tries to reconcile his past with his future amid transitions through different phases of life, he finds meaning in his intense attachment to his surrounding landscape. Yet, as relationships and the years slip by, Wing is forced to question his own certainties and the wisdom of the people he values.
Set in Singapore’s heartland at the turn of the century, Heartland’s capturing of the texture of everyday life provides the backdrop essential to the bildungsroman’s exploration of identity, belonging and connection in an increasingly urbanised Singapore.
Goodbye My Kampong! Potong Pasir, 1966 to 1975◎Josephine Chia
Regular price $22.00Sequel to Josephine Chia’s 2014 Singapore Literature prize-winning book, Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965.
Kampong life in Singapore did not end in 1965 with her independence.
In Josephine Chia’s new collection of non-fiction stories, the phasing out of attap-thatched villages, the largest mass movement in Singapore, is set against the backdrop of significant national events.
Weaving personal tribulations—her teenage angst—and the experiences of villagers from her kampong, Josephine skilfully parallels the hopes and challenges of a toddling nation going through the throes of industrialisation and rapid changes from 1966 to 1975.
These delightful, real-life stories, sprinkled with snippets of her Peranakan culture, reveal the joie-de-vivre of gotong royong or community spirit, despite impoverished conditions, in the last days of kampong life.
A Place for Us◎Cassandra Chiu
Regular price $24.00Disability is neither strange nor distant. Part autobiography, part reflections of social advocate Cassandra Chiu’s experiences as a person living with visual impairment, A Place For Us is the story of the first woman to be a guide dog handler in Singapore and the first Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in Southeast Asia who happens to be blind.
Cassandra’s story starts with her growing-up years in 1980s Singapore, chronicling how her life unfolds with the onset of Stargardt disease, which causes progressive vision loss. From pursuing an education, navigating motherhood, to building a career as a psychotherapist, Cassandra openly discusses the attitudes towards disability and her journey towards true independence with her guide dog Esme.
In inimitable frankness, A Place For Us offers an illuminating perspective of a person living with disability beyond the pity party of her life, and advocates for a more equal and sustainable future for people with disabilities.
Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore◎Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Meng Ee Wong, Dan Goodley (Editors)
Regular price $30.00Disability is all around us—among people we meet, the media, sports, our own family and friends. Undeniably, all of us have or will one day come to experience or encounter disability. But how can we reckon with the realities of those who live with disability, or its reality in our own lives? In a city-state slowly moving towards inclusion, how do those meant to be 'included' feel about such efforts? Not Without Us: perspectives on disability and inclusion in Singapore is a groundbreaking collection of essays that takes a creative and critical disability studies approach to centre disability, and rethink the ways in which we research, analyse, think and know about disability in our lives. Across multiple domains and perspectives, the writings in this volume consider what it means to live with disability in a purportedly inclusive and accessible Singapore.
(Book cover description: The central visual of the cover is a photo. This photo, taken by photographer Isabelle Lim, is of two performers in the centre of a spacious room, where the wall and floor are both decorated with brown and gold patterns. The foreground is lit by a bright yet warm light, which illuminates the side profiles of the two men against the blackness behind them. Closer to the camera is the rapper Wheelsmith. Clad in a mustard yellow cap and blue denim jacket, he is riding his wheelchair toward the left of the picture. At a slight distance behind him, and in the midst of walking in the opposite direction, is fellow rapper ShiGGa Shay, sporting an orange, white, and blue puffer jacket and a bun of electric blue hair."
On the book cover, this photo is accompanied by the Book title "Not Without Us" in all-capitals, beige text against the black background on the top of the photo. The subtitle in small caps "perspectives on disability and inclusion in Singapore" is printed in the center-right of the book cover. In the black background of the photo are light blue lines in the shape of Wheelsmith's and Shigga Shay's silhouettes, layered and expanding towards the top of the book cover to amplify their poses in the photo. The editors' byline is at the bottom of the book cover in black text.)
“This is a pathbreaking book. Not Without Us weaves together a rich fabric of voices exploring the politics and poetics of disability in Singapore. Moving between lived reality, representation and struggles for social transformation, the collection excavates hidden or forgotten pasts, documents struggles and community formation in the present, and hints at possible futures. The essay collection challenges contemporary discourses of and scholarship on disability in Singapore by centring disabled subjectivities. In the process, it opens up new spaces of empathy, praxis and critique.” —Philip Holden, Independent Scholar and Counsellor
"It warms my heart to see another book on disability through the Asian lens. Not just any book or author, but a plethora of contributors who are leaders in the Singaporean disability scene. The tapestry of all the essays inspires the imagination to how we can truly create a place that all of us can call home. Inclusion isn’t just keeping the token seat available, or inviting someone disabled to the party, but truly paving the way forward for all of us to celebrate each other as individuals in all our different shapes, sizes and colours. Thank you Not Without Us for so eloquently celebrating ‘Nothing about us, without us’!" —Cassandra Chiu, Psychotherapist; Social Advocate and Author of A Place For Us
"Not Without Us is a richly edited and profoundly written collection of essays about disability in Singapore. It is part of a new and fresh movement to provide local knowledges and global perspectives to a field that has been for too long grounded in the West, particularly the US and the UK. The book will be extremely valuable not only to readers in Singapore but also to those throughout the world who seek a broader perspective on significant issues in disability studies, arts, policy and activism." —Lennard J. Davis, Distinguished Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois in Chicago
Sister Snake◎Amanda Lee Koe
Regular price $24.00A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secret.
Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a nihilistic sugar baby in New York, living from whim to whim and using her charms to make ends meet. But they share a secret: once, they were snakes, basking under a full moon in Tang dynasty China.
A thousand years later, their mysterious history is the only thing still binding them together. When Emerald experiences a violent encounter in Central Park and Su boards the next flight to New York, the two reach a tenuous reconciliation for the first time in decades. Su convinces Emerald to move to Singapore so she can keep an eye on her—but she soon begins to worry that Emerald’s irrepressible behaviour will out them both, in a sparkling, affluent city where everything runs like clockwork and any deviation from the norm is automatically suspect.
Razor-sharp, hilarious, and raw in emotion, Sister Snake, a reimagining of The Legend of the White Snake, is a novel about being seen for who you are—and, ultimately, how to live free.
“Amanda Lee Koe’s tale of serpentine sisterhood will wend its way into your heart. Drawing equally from folklore and current events, this fearless novel entertains and delights. Beneath its beguiling surface, Sister Snake explores fundamental questions: Are our destinies determined by our bodies? What forms can family take? And what, in the end, does it mean to be human?”
—Rajesh Parameswaran, author of I Am An Executioner
愛是唯一不變的答案，永恆的終極答案◎東方聖光（簡體）
Regular price $21.00內容簡介
「一切生命未曾離開過愛。一切靈魂都歸屬於愛，愛未曾遺忘一人。」
本書通過多個視角展示愛和寬恕在個人成長、家庭關繫以及心靈救贖中的重要作用。書中收錄了多篇真實經曆與義理分享，其中包括關於親子關繫的重建，抑鬱症和重症的康複等內容。作者通過不同實例去激勵讀者麵對生活中的各種挑戰。
書中還深入探討了福報與功德的區別，強調了行善積德的意義，以及如何通過愛、信仰、以及修行驅趕「邪魔」。
作者簡介
東方聖光（Oriental Holy Light）成立於2023年，是香港政府注冊的非牟利慈善團體及服務機構。
本會宗旨是爲促進教育，以造福香港與廣大社會，透過出版印刷書籍，及舉辦不同身心靈活動，以提昇市民大衆及兒童對身心靈的認識與學習。主力幫助生活壓力大、內心無力、經常焦慮恐懼痛苦、受過重創、內心迷茫、找不到人生意義的人群，安撫情緒，滋養心靈，促進親子關繫、家庭和諧，並協助治愈罹患「抑鬱症」、「自閉症」等心靈感冒的人群，康複治愈陷入「心靈孤島」的大衆。藉着身心靈文化的傳播，緻力在人們心中播下陽光、溫暖、愛與光明的正向種子，積極培育大衆及下一代。
