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New book sheds light on Singapore’s secret negotiations for independence

Albatross - The Albatross File:Inside Separation Edited by Susan Sim

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The Unlikely Motherhood Of Shaleni May tries its hand at thorny topics

The Unlikely Motherhood Of Shaleni May is Sunita Sue Leng's first novel.

Singaporean of the Year finalist: Edmund Wee bets his personal wealth on championing Sing Lit

Epigram Literary foundation founder Edmund Wee is one of five finalists of the 11th Singaporean of the Year award.

Pioneer writer Robert Yeo publishes his adolescent love poems at 85

Pioneer writer Robert Yeo, 85, has published a suite of love poems he wrote at 27 in A Colette Sequence And Other Poems (2025).

Khir Johari’s The Food Of Singapore Malays is Best of All at Gourmand Cookbook Awards

Singaporean author and food historian Khir Johari’s The Food Of Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels Through The Archipelago has received the Best of All accolade at the 31st Gourmand Cookbook Awards 2025.

The Straits Times Weekly Bestsellers Nov 22

(From left) Ministry Of Moral Panic by Amanda Lee Koe, I Am Not Good Enough by Ismail Gafoor and Low Shi Ping, and The Southsea School Squads Book 1: A Dream Team by Leanne Teo.

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How Singapore built diplomatic soft power in seven key episodes

The book was written by a team of seven writers from Nutgraf Books and edited by its founding partner and former Straits Times news editor Peh Shing Huei (pictured).

Former MP Irene Ng wins $30,000 Spirit Of Singapore book prize for Rajaratnam biography

Dr Alan HJ Chan's daughter Ms Judy Chan, author Irene Ng and Professor Tommy Koh at The Fullerton Hotel.

Singapore Writers Festival 2025

SG Culture Pass boosts impressive festival with 30 per cent rise in attendees

The packed Singapore Writers Festival bookstore at The Arts House.

SWF 2026’s Hidden In Plain Sight could explore crime fiction, memoirs, medical writing, journalism

Singapore Writers Festival director Yong Shu Hoong's debut festival was in 2024 and he has just concluded the 2025 edition, which some have described as feeling more "buzzy".

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