Marshall Cavendish International: 630 books

In this latest addition to the highly successful 100 Great Ideas series, readers will find a comprehensive guide to building success across all areas of their lives covering work, family and community. Author Dr Peter Shaw, who has written two other titles in this series, distils 100 learning points...

Sixteen business leaders share how to achieve success at work and life. Drawn from diverse industries and fields of expertise, each interviewee shares his or her personal journey, including the challenges and setbacks faced, and how to overcome them. Includes interviews with Jonathan Asherson (Rolls...

Whatever you can imagine, you can write! But first, you must learn to imagine. This book will help you. It gives you a simple and fun process for developing all the stories that you want to write. Each chapter will focus on one specific creative task, such as figuring out your story concept, creating...

Mahathir Mohamad stepped down as Malaysia’s longest serving prime minister in 2003. Officially he does not hold any political office, but his views and influence still prevail. He was largely responsible for deposing his handpicked successor, Abdullah Badawi, and he is in the process of trying to...

Chef Zan’s passion for baking is contagious. All who walk through the doors of her baking studio leave inspired, having discovered their baking talents, eager to realise their dreams and ready to share their creations with family and friends. Baking with Chef Zan: Cakes, Cookies & Tarts combines...

Award-winning cookbook author and food blogger Shirley Wong returns with even more kawaii creations. Familiar favourite treats the bao and the doughnut get transformed with a playful twist. These teatime and party favourites turn into cute, edible creatures and flowers. With many utilising aromatic...

The 12 stories in this collection electrify by their dazzling diversity of subject, their relentless observation and comment and their adroit use of language. Through the dark labyrinths of the secret lives of men and women in Singapore, Catherine Lim once again uses her sharp powers of observation...

A Kite in the Evening Sky is Shaik Kadir’s firsthand account of growing up in a Geylang Serai kampung in the late 1950s and 1960s. It was a time when children spent the hours after school playing capteh and marbles, eating fresh jambu, hauling pails of water home from the public standpipe, attending...

Nights of the Dark Moon is a collection of 13 dark folktales compiled from around Asia, with two bonus stories from Africa, retold in the Gothic tradition, known for its air of brooding mystery and chilling fear. The tales feature haunted places, ancient curses, supernatural creatures and desperate...

A tale of two women, their loves, lies and resilience during the Emergency in Malaya. When young and naive Ruth set out to look for her husband Mark in Malaya in 1950, little did she expect to find herself in a country split by war and ideology and a rival for her husband’s love that is as lovely...

To understand the present, Arcadia Greentree must dig deep into her past. In Book 1, sixteen-year-old Arcadia discovered she was adopted and that her development had been shaped and monitored by her “parents” together with the headmaster of her school. The discovery resulted in a tragedy as her...

Singapore’s most bizarre murder case drew to a close on 25 November 1988 when Adrian Lim, his wife Catherine Tan Mui Choo and mistress Hoe Kah Hong were hanged at Changi Prison. After two children were found dead within a fortnight in 1981, the Toa Payoh ‘ritual killings’ proved shocking for...

The Magic Urn and Other Timeless Tales of Malaysia brings together 12 legendary stories that have been passed down for generations. With a story from almost every state, the collection captures journeys of personal growth characters search for truths, find their calling, question faith, desire and...

A coming-of-age tale of sixteen-year-old Eric Teo, who has a fraught relationship with his parents, particularly his mother, Clara, a successful financial adviser who imposes her values on Eric. Through an inadvertent conversation, Eric learns that he has a paternal grandmother whom no one had...