Marshall Cavendish Edition imprint: 285 books
by Chan Ling Yap
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In the southern Province of Guangxi amidst the turmoil of the Taiping Rebellion and the Opium War, a woman is kidnapped and her husband shipped out as a coolie to Singapore. Yet from despair came good fortune. Seen through the eyes of one family, this is a moving story of the scourge of opium and...
Bitter Sweet Harvest
A sequel to the acclaimed and well-loved Sweet Offerings
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Set in a Malaysia emerging from the outbreak of racial conflict in 1969, Bitter-Sweet Harvest tells of the difficulties and tensions involved in a marriage between a Malay Muslim and a Chinese Christian. Atmospheric, dramatic, action-packed and intriguing, it is peppered with local flavour evoking the...
Frog Under the Coconut Shell
Straits Chinese Culture, The Peranakan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Frog Under A Coconut Shell means in Malay, “Katuk Bawah Tempurong”, an idiom which likens someone to a frog that lives under a coconut shell, who believes the shell to be its entire world. It is a reference to the author’s own mother, who although herself uneducated and living in a parochial existence...
A Fork in Asia's Road
Adventures of an Occidental Glutton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Asia is a delicious and unique melting pot of flavours with the diverse cuisines reflecting the various cultural and ethnic groups that call it home. Award-winning writer John Krich has lived and travelled across Asia for the last decade as the food correspondent for the Asian Wall Street Journal. The...
CultureShock! Laos
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
CultureShock! Laos points you on the right path to appreciating the culture and customs of this land-locked nation. Discover the impact of its five immediate neighbours on the land and see how Laos’ wartime history and the time spent as a French protectorate in the late 19th century have influenced...
A Bit of Earth
An exciting Saga from the First Singapore Literature Prize Winner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Malaya. A land of unparalleled richness. For centuries, the peninsula has attracted fortune hunters, money-grabbing pirates and migrants seeking a better life. Among those whose lives are rooted in the Malayan soil are three families: the Wongs, sons of the Chinese earth; the Wees, subjects of the English...
Adventures of 2 Girls
Humorous and inspiring story about friendship, chasing dreams
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Adventures of 2 Girls traces the journey of two best friends who take a 9-month break from their successful careers to tick a big, fat item off their Bucket Lists: To travel the world and write a book. Ning is an award-winning professional female magician, and Pam an award-winning journalist and radio...
Inside Her Pretty Little Head
A new theory of female motivation and what it means for marketing
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Women are responsible for making 80% of all purchasing decisions. In short, this makes women the most valuable consumer group in the world. This book, by two leading marketing practitioners, shows companies how to create marketing strategies and brands that will speak powerfully to women. Many marketing...
Short Stories Eureka
Model Narrative Essays for Today's Secondary School Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Short Stories Eureka features the best of model narrative stories written by English Language and Literature specialist, Diana Tham. Through her stories, as well as works by her students, Diana shows students how to apply model structures and writing techniques to their own writing, providing them with...
Sister Swing
A Classic from a popular novelist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Sister Swing chronicles the growing up years of three sisters. It follows their transplant from a relatively sheltered life in Malaysia to the raw realities of the United States. It illuminates the complex relationships between the sisters, and gently but firmly explores the morals, values and mindsets of growing up Asian in a Western world.
The Forest Fables
Illustrated Children's book
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In this enchanting fable of a forest and the myriad creatures that call it home, 8-year-old artist Gelyn Ong paints a lyrical portrait of nature in harmony. But when a lumberjack arrives on the scene, the animals find themselves in danger of losing their home. Through a series of intricate and beautifully...
The Catherine Lim Collection
Singapore,Literary collection
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
This book consists of three celebrated short story collections and an early novel, each reflecting Lim’s prowess as a storyteller chronicling a society in transit, where multiethnic characters struggle with their identities as the past and the present intersect, mingle and clash. The Serpent’s Tooth...
The Advocate's Devil
Singapore fiction, historical,1930, law, family saga
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Dennis Chiang is a stranger in his homeland. Just returned to the Straits Settlements after spending half his life in England, the young lawyer is thrown into the swirling brew that is colonial society in 1930s Singapore: a society of tuans and towkays, Babas and babus, where race is everything and even...
Notes From an Even Smaller Island
Singapore’s National Bestseller
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Knowing nothing of Singapore, young Englishman Neil Humphreys arrives in the land of ‘air-conned’ shopping centres and Lee Kuan Yew. From the aunties in the hawker centres to expats dressed as bananas, from Singlish to kiasuism, and from Singaporeans at home to Singaporeans abroad, Humphreys explores...