POETRY
BEEF
By Nurul Amillin Hussain
Math Paper Press/Paperback/34 pages/$16/BooksActually
INHERITANCE: AN ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Marie Ee and Joy Chee
Math Paper Press/Paperback/75 pages/$19/BooksActually
An intensely personal anthology that gathers the quiet moments at dinner tables and hospital bedsides, across distances and generations, probing the increasingly nebulous concept of home.
NON-FICTION
THE BASKET AND THE ROPE
By Jane Chew
Tradelinks International/Paperback/86 pages/$16.95/Books Kinokuniya and www.selectbooks.com.sg
The former Straits Times journalist recounts with humour her childhood of growing up in colonial Singapore amid street food hawkers, pirate taxis and the Tai Tian Kiew Circus.
THE UNDEFEATED PARENT
By Miranda Mulyana and Irena Kit Phey Ling
Armour Publishing/Paperback/216 pages/ $19.26/ Books Kinokuniya, Popular and www.armourpublishing.com
Both psychologists and parents, Mulyana and Kit explore the common myths surrounding the phenomenon of stress among children and adolescents and how parents can better understand and motivate them.
ART
THE HOPE-FILLED ART OF MARTIN SEE THO
By Sandra Choo
The Book Council/Paperback/181 pages/$33 before GST/ bit.ly/2AgFl1I
Mr See Tho, who became a wheelchair user at the age of 32 due to an incurable degenerative disorder, learnt digital painting and held his first solo exhibition in 2007. He died in 2009, at 40, leaving behind 160 works which are collected in this book.
