Death Of A Perm Sec

Author : Wong Souk Yee
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9814757357
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Of A Perm Sec written by Wong Souk Yee and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Death of a Perm Sec is a mystery about the demise of the permanent-secretary of the housing ministry, Chow Sze Teck, accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes over his career. Set in 1980's Singapore, the novel examines the civil servant’s death, which first appears to be suicide by a cocktail of alcohol, morphine and Valium. But upon investigation by a CID inspector who might not be what he seems, the family discovers there may be far more sinister circumstances behind his death, that reach to the very top of government. The novel exposes the dark heart of power politics,from the country’s tumultuous post-independence days to the socio-political landscape of the 1980s.

Author : O Thiam Chin
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9814757292
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now That It's Over written by O Thiam Chin and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: --Winner of the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize-- During the Christmas holidays in 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that devastates fourteen countries. Two couples from Singapore are vacationing in Phuket when the tsunami strikes. Alternating between the aftermath of the catastrophe 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.

Author : Wong Souk Yee
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9815105078
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardens at Phoenix Park written by Wong Souk Yee and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens at Phoenix Park is a fictional story set against actual events, of three students who meet during the turbulent period of anti-government protests in Singapore of the late 1970s. As these fellow travellers cross the continent of the next four decades, their relationships with each other transform in complexity against a backdrop of social and political engineering. Min Chan is detained under the Internal Security Act. Shu Peng becomes complicit in the machinations of the ruling party. And Martin comes out of the closet during the 2011 general election. Even as the characters’ lives are shaped by events of the day, they also push back to shape a better future for themselves, as well as for the country.

Author : Daryl Qilin Yam
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9814757764
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kappa Quartet written by Daryl Qilin Yam and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin is a young man without a soul, holidaying in Tokyo; Mr Five, the enigmatic kappa, is the man he so happens to meet. Little does Kevin know that kappas—the river demons of Japanese folklore—desire nothing more than the souls of other humans. Set between Singapore and Japan, Kappa Quartet is split into eight discrete sections, tracing the rippling effects of this chance encounter across a host of other characters, connected and bound to one another in ways both strange and serendipitous. Together they ask one another: what does it mean to be in possession of something nobody has seen before?

Author : Imran Hashim
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9814757519
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annabelle Thong written by Imran Hashim and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devout Catholic school teacher 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 he’s the one temptation she MUST resist. Annabelle’s belief system is challenged on all fronts, and her na?veté 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.

Author : Tham Cheng-E
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9811700974
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surrogate Protocol written by Tham Cheng-E and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landon Locke is no ordinary barista. A man of many names and identities, he has lived though many lifetimes, but his memory spans only days. Danger brews as Landon struggles to piece together reality through his fog of amnesia. A mysterious organisation called CODEX bent on hunting him down, a man named John who claims to be a friend, and women from Landon's past who have come back to haunt him. As CODEX closes in, he finds himself increasingly backed into a corner. Battling an unreliable memory, Landon is forced to make a choice: who can he trust?

Author : Constance Singam
Publisher : Ethos Books
ISBN 13 : 9811828644
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Advocacy in Singapore written by Constance Singam and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advocacy is a tricky pursuit in Singapore. Your motives can be questioned, your activities monitored, and your scope for action limited. Despite the constraints, civil society activists have persisted, finding ways to pursue their cause and to try to bring about the changes they believe important for Singapore. In 2013 a small group of civil society stalwarts set out to acknowledge the contributions of these unsung heroes. The Singapore Advocacy Awards was launched, a 3-year project that saw a total of 18 individuals and organisations being honoured. In this book, 37 activists, many of them winners of the Awards, write about their causes and discuss the strategies shaped and lessons learnt as they practise the delicate art of advocacy in Singapore. Reflecting the nature of civil society, there is a diversity of voices. Some give a more personal account, while others describe the institutional experience of advocacy work. Some essays are short and sweet, others long and detailed. They appear ordered alphabetically by the cause.

Author : Pooja Nansi
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9814845477
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories written by Pooja Nansi and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best short fiction published by Singaporean writers in 2017 and 2018. The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Four gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2017 and 2018, selected by guest editor Pooja Nansi from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections. Accompanying the stories are the editor’s preface and an extensive list of honourable mentions for further reading. Reader Reviews "The stories range from intimate family portraits to speculative science fiction, but every piece speaks to universal experiences of love, loss, desire, and disappointment ... If you've either never read Singaporean literature, this would be a good place to start. If Crazy Rich Asians was the last thing you read by a local author, even better." — Wonderwall.sg

Author : Stephan Ortmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429758340
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's ‘Singapore Model’ and Authoritarian Learning written by Stephan Ortmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores to what extent China has drawn lessons from Singapore, both in terms of its ruling ideology and through the policy-specific learning process. In so doing, it provides insights into the opportunities but also the challenges of this long-term learning process, focusing attention to how non-democratic regimes deal with modernization. The stellar line-up of international contributors, from China, Singapore, Europe, and the US, offer a variety of perspectives on Singapore as a model of "authoritarian modernism" for China. The book discusses how the small Southeast Asian city-state became a major reference point for China, how mainland observers often misunderstood the nature of Singapore’s governance and instrumentalized it to bolster the CCP’s legitimacy, and why the Singapore model appears to be in decline under Xi Jinping. The chapters also analyze policy-specific learning processes, including bilateral mechanisms of policy exchange, the Chinese "mayor’s class" in Singapore, and joint industrial projects and lessons in social welfare provision. The book will be of interest to academics working on Chinese politics; development in China; state society and economy in the Asia-Pacific; international relations in the Asia-Pacific; and Southeast Asian politics.

Author : Akshita Nanda
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9814785776
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nimita's Place written by Akshita Nanda and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1944 in India and Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to become an engineer, but her parents want a different life for her. As she accepts her fate and marries, religious upheaval is splitting the country and forcing her family to find a new home. In 2014, her granddaughter, molecular biologist Nimita Sachdev, escapes India to run away from the prospect of an arranged marriage. Staking out a future in Singapore, she faces rising anger against immigrants and uncertainty about her new home. Two generations apart, these two women walk divergent paths but face the same quandaries: who are we, and what is home?