Non-fiction books

Singapore Writers Festival 2026

Author Amitav Ghosh says writers must give voice to marginal communities in works about the climate

Amitav Ghosh is giving a festival keynote lecture at the Victoria Theatre.

New essay collection commemorates late best-selling author of I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki

The collection, titled Buttermilk Way, is by Baek Se-hee’s partner of seven years, a friend and her younger sister.

The Straits Times Weekly Bestsellers Oct 24

(From left) Unease: Life In Singapore Families by Teo You Yenn, Mind The Gap by Ratna Damayanti Taha, Funcles by Yashika Mody and Adriena Fong.

BookTalk

Actor Suhaimi Yusof on why reading is the ultimate retirement plan for the brain

Suhaimi Yusof with A Brain That Breathes, a book he picked up during a trip to Perth.

‘They can ban a politician, but they cannot ban ideas’: Thai almost-PM Pita Limjaroenrat on his memoir

Thai politician Pita Limjaroenrat, the former Move Forward Party leader in Thailand, at SPH News Centre on Sept 25,.

BookTalk

The Lunch Break Investor author Thomas Chua seeks out books that disagree with him

The Lunch Break Investor author Thomas Chua recommends three books to ST readers.

SingLit hang-out Book Bar to migrate to Tiong Bahru Community Centre by end-2026

Book Bar in Duxton Road has played host to book clubs and readings but also food pop-ups.

Princess Diana’s ‘revenge dress’ steals spotlight as royal feud reignites

Princess Diana’s appearance in the so-called revenge dress in 1994 was widely seen as a show of strength amid her husband’s affair.

Book review

Poet Theophilus Kwek mourns migrant worker friend’s death in mesmerising Odeon

Non-fiction author Theophilus Kwek (left) titled Odeon: An Ode after Odeon Towers, a building Bangladesh national Fazley Elahi Rubel helped build and in which he once surreptitiously slept after being fired.

Parents and siblings of queer Singaporeans tell their stories in new book

Writer and editor Jason Wee (centre), with book subjects Daniel Askre (left), and Shania Saudah, published the first book in Singapore that features LGBTQ families coming out with their stories.

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