Non-fiction books

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.

Princess Diana’s brother to publish book about her life

Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, penned by her brother, Earl Spencer, is slated to be released in September in Britain and published around the world.

Why you keep buying books you don’t read

Long before a book is read, the experience of finding it is already becoming associated with pleasure.

17 Singapore books to look forward to for the rest of 2026

Tentative cover of Snakes Of Singapore: A Slightly Unhinged Field Guide by Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray.

BookTalk

Curator Chelsea Chua reads historical fiction and non-fiction to expand her world view

Chelsea Chua is reading The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.

New book on Creative Technology founder Sim Wong Hoo begins from his kampung childhood

Sim Wong Hoo: The Light We Remember pays tribute to the late founder of Creative Technology. When a young Sim Wong Hoo enrolled in Bukit Panjang English School, he did not know that what his name was when the teacher called him.

‘No Candy Crush’: Free To Play is Singapore’s first video game literary anthology

Natalie Wang and Daryl Lim Wei Jie, editors of Difference Engine's new anthology on video games, Free To Play: A Video Games Anthology.

Tari Lang’s memoir My Neighbour, The Dictator recalls 1965 coup, growing up under Suharto’s regime

My Neighbour, The Dictator by Tari Lang.

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