SINGAPORE - Need new books to pass the time while waiting for the next phase of Singapore's Covid-19 recovery to roll round? In this monthly feature, The Straits Times lines up a set of free e-books, as well as three other hot-off-the-press home-grown books for readers to dive into.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - Need new books to pass the time while waiting for the next phase of Singapore's Covid-19 recovery to roll round? In this monthly feature, The Straits Times lines up a set of free e-books, as well as three other hot-off-the-press home-grown books for readers to dive into.By Desmond KonTHE BONNIE, BONNIE BANKS OF SINGAPURA2719Given that all the bookstores in Singapore remain shut until further notice, getting new reads seems an increasingly tall order.
Ethos publisher Ng Kah Gay says that they decided to release the e-books for free during the circuit breaker period to give readers"words and art and the capacity to re-vision and reimagine the landscape of our past, present and future". They will continue to be available after the circuit breaker ends.
Poet Christine Chia, 41, gives a voice to Sang Nila's mother-in-law, the Bentan queen Wan Sri Benian, in If You Cannot Marry For Love, Marry For Silver, a set of poems from Some Say, A Tapir. "Great minds think alike," says Joshua Ip, 38, whose book of verse, Farquhar, is based on a work-in-progress musical he is co-writing. It aims to give Singapore's first British Resident the Hamilton treatment, after Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash Broadway hit about American founding father Alexander Hamilton.Asiapac Books/ Paperback/ 132 pages/ $15.90 before GST/ Pre-order from asiapacbooks.
Elizabeth Choy: Her Story, which will be printed and published later this month after the circuit breaker is lifted, is a tribute to Choy's wartime bravery, as well as her later contributions, such as being the only woman member in the Legislative Council in 1951.Epigram Books/ Paperback/ 128 pages/ $18.90 before GST/ shop.epigrambooks.sg
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