Marshall Cavendish International: 630 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...
by Minfong Ho
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
A collection of three of award-winning author, Minfong Ho’s, most beloved and acclaimed books: Sing to the Dawn, Rice Without Rain and The Clay Marble. All three books are set in Southeast Asia, and each touches on a different theme: education, struggles for change both for country and within oneself....
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.
by Jessie Wee
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
First published in 1980 as a collection of 10 titles, and subsequently translated into Chinese and Malay, and exported to America, The adventures of Mooty has now been revived and reworked into a series of 5 books, each comprising two stories. Featured in Book 4: Mooty and the Spaceman -Mooty and the Space-mouse
by Jessie Wee
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
First published in 1980 as a collection of 10 titles, and subsequently translated into Chinese and Malay, and exported to America, The adventures of Mooty has now been revived and reworked into a series of 5 books, each comprising two stories. Featured in Book 3: Mooty Goes to School -Mooty Plays Hide-and-Seek
Expository & Argumentative Eureka
Model Expository and Argumentative Essays for Today's Secondary School Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Argumentative Eureka features the best of model expository and argumentative stories written by English Language and Literature specialist, Diana Tham. Through her essays, as well as works by her students, Diana shows students how to apply model structures and writing techniques to their own writing,...