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  • The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza

    by Cyril Wong ...
    One last time and on her birthday, Rose de Souza is returning to school to give a final lesson to her classroom of secondary school boys before retiring from her long teaching career. What ensues is an unexpected confession in which she recounts the tragic and traumatic story of Amir, a student from her past who overturned the way she saw herself as a teacher, and changed her life forever.The ... Read more

    $12.67 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories (Volume Three)

    by Cyril Wong, Jason Erik Lundberg ...
    Series Book 3 - Best New Singaporean Short Stories
    The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2015 and 2016, selected by guest editor Cyril Wong from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections. Accompanying the stories are the editor’s preface and an extensive list of honourable mentions for further reading.This ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories

    by Cyril Wong ...
    -- Recommended by the National Library Board, Singapore and Ministry of Communications and Information --A woman learns of a friend’s illness and wonders if she ever truly knew him. A boy who sees ghosts heeds the advice of a fortune-teller, with surprising consequences. A girl wakes up and realises everybody in her Bedok neighbourhood has vanished. From Cyril Wong, award-winning author of The ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Let Me Tell You Something About that Night

    by Cyril Wong ...
    Be warned, mothers should not read these stories to their children, even though they might contain a lonely elf, a talking moon, a butterfly that wants to be a rabbit, or a boy who was born with a flower as an unfortunate appendage. Hovering within the realm of fables, myths and fairy tales, here are unlikely bedtime stories that are best read on a dark, stormy night, and at the risk of wounding ... Read more

    $19.72 CAD

  • This Side of Heaven

    by Cyril Wong ...
    A comedian, a nun, a reality TV star and countless others meet in a Garden. This is not the start of a joke, but the beginnings of a parable. These denizens may be running out of time, even as it seems there is all the time in their Kafkaesque world. ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dictator's Eyebrow

    by Cyril Wong ...
    This is a disturbing, poetic account of an unnamed dictator’s eyebrow whose longings, delusions of grandeur, and curious influence have shaped history in ways previously unknown—until now. Within a surreal tale about an eyebrow’s thirst for recognition and power, a love story also unexpectedly emerges.Finalist for the Singapore Book Publishers Association Awards 2016.“An enthralling pyroclastic ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza

    by Cyril Wong ...
    Narrated by Justine Moss ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 22 min

    One last time and on her birthday, Rose de Souza is returning to school to give a final lesson to her classroom of secondary school boys before retiring from her long teaching career. What ensues is an unexpected confession in which she recounts the tragic and traumatic story of Amir, a student from her past who overturned the way she saw herself as a teacher, and changed her life forever. The ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Applause

    by Cyril Wong ...
    Narrated by Benjamin Chow ...

    Unabridged

    16 min

    Raj, a resident at a halfway house, is ready to take his first steps in a new job after months of rehab, but will Life have other plans? Narrator: Benjamin Chow Composer: Gregory Tan Music Mixed by: Edric Hwang Sound Designer: Ming, Loo Zhen Yang Mixed by: Yen Yu Ting The Sound of Stories project is about bringing together Writers, Narrators, Composers, Foley Artists and Sound Designers to create ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Mistake

    by Cyril Wong ...
    Narrated by Benjamin Chow ...

    Unabridged

    22 min

    A mother and son have to deal with the consequences when she makes an embarrassing mistake at the shopping mall one afternoon. Narrator: Benjamin Chow Composer: Tabitha Boon Music Mixed by: Edric Hwang Sound Designer: Yen Yu Ting, Loo Zhen Yang Mixed by: Yen Yu Ting The Sound of Stories project is about bringing together Writers, Narrators, Composers, Foley Artists and Sound Designers to create a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories

    by Cyril Wong ...
    Narrated by Benjamin Chow ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 14 min

    A woman learns of a friend's illness and wonders if she ever truly knew him. A boy who sees ghosts heeds the advice of a fortune-teller, with surprising consequences. A girl wakes up and realises everybody in her Bedok neighbourhood has vanished. From Cyril Wong, award-winning author of The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza, comes another beautiful book about characters in crisis, with two stories ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • rib/cage: poems

    by Rosaly Puthucheary, Arunditha, Zeha ...
    Our ALLTHETIME folios present three poets across the generations in conversation with one another.Pounding beneath rib/cage is a visceral struggle for selfhood and belonging. These poems shatter through the suffocating grip of silence and constraint. These are words carved into verse as sharp as bone—voiced into the stillness of night.Within the pages of our first ALLTHETIME folio lies a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories (Volume One)

    by Jason Erik Lundberg ...
    Series Book 1 - Best New Singaporean Short Stories
    In recent years, Singaporean literature has begun experiencing a sea change, with the short story form enjoying a renaissance. As a result, an explosion of short fiction with a Singaporean flavour has been produced to incredible effect, both by emerging and established writers. For the prose enthusiast, it is a very exciting time.The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus