Search Results: Singapore - Biography from The Penang Bookshelf

Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. A collection of biographies of prisoners in Singapore's famous Changi Jail. Commissioned by the Singapore Prison Service, this book is probably intended to deter potential offenders by describing the commission of a series of crimes and the consequent punishment in popular story book form. 119 pages with a few descriptive photographs of what awaits similar offenders when they're caught. . *This book is being sold to raise funds for the House of Hope, a home for tsunami orphans in Chennai, India. 80% of the net sale proceeds of this book will be donated to this charity.* Weight: 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia Although the outer edges of the pages look mildly tanned, this is probably by design of the publisher. The cover has mild wear and the text block is slightly dirty. The binding is tight and the text clear with no tanning throughout.

London: The Penguin Group, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. In this book Barley enjoyably weaves elements of Raffles' life in Southeast Asia with Barley's own experiences while travelling around Raffles' haunts today. He discovered that now the imperial hero is remembered not so much for his deeds, but for the commercial cachet in his name. 276 pages Weight 0.8kg. Post free within Malaysia The dust jacket has minor curls around the edges. The binding is tight, the text is clear and there is minimal tanning throughout.

Singapore: Angsana Books, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. A collection of articles, originally published in the Straits Times, by a veteran Singaporean journalist. Lim is widely read, sharing a post colonial affinity with VS Naipaul, and so reveals a little more than one might normally expect in such a collection,both of himself and how he grew up with and was shaped by Singapore. 272 pages. . *This book is being sold to raise funds for the House of Hope, a home for tsunami orphans in Chennai, India. 80% of the net sale proceeds of this book will be donated to this charity.* Weight: 0.4kg. Post free within Malaysia There is a little bit of cover wear and a former owner's name written on the inside front cover. The binding is tight and the text clear with no tanning throughout.

Singapore: Epigram Books, 2016. Paperback. New. Although Tham Yew Chin, who writes under the pseudonym of You Jin, has had more than 150 works published in Chinese in her home country of Singapore and in Malaysia, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the English reading public had to wait until 2012 for a book of hers to be translated into English. In this book she describes her journey from being the daughter of a construction worker in Ipoh, Malaysia to becoming a literary giant in Singapore. Translated by Shelly Bryant from Chinese. 294 pages. Weight 0.7kg. Post free within Malaysia

Singapore: Horizon Books, 2005. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good. The well known and award winning author makes a bit of a departure from her more popular writing by through a mix of fiction and autobiography imagines what mourners would be saying as she lies in her coffin. Of course, Lim uses enough of her wit to transform the experience into being philosophical, rather than depressing. 219 pages. Weight: 0.4.kg. * Post free within Malaysia. The book has a minor bit of cover wear, but otherwise looks new and unread.

Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2011. Paperback. New. An extraordinary story of a German, born a British subject, who finds himself in Singapore at the time of the Japanese takeover. Thanks to his German connections, he escapes immediate internment, but is then found out and joins other European internees. His six year old son, Hans, escapes capture and then has to learn to live by his wits on the streets of war torn Singapore. The author is Hans' son. 359 pages with some black and white photographs. Weight 0.6kg. Post free within Malaysia

Singapore: Archipelago Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fair/fair. 96 pages. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. Weight: 0.9kg. Post free within Malaysia The book has suffered extensive water damage, but is still a useful reading copy