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'OTHERS' IS NOT A RACE (3RD PRINTING)
by Melissa De Silva
published by Math Paper Press
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What is a Eurasian? Are Eurasians Singaporean? What does it mean to be a Eurasian living in Singapore?

While having existed in Singapore as long as any other community, Eurasians, who comprise less than one percent of the population, still remain a fairly obscure group to many Singaporeans.

'OTHERS' IS NOT A RACE is a tapestry that weaves together the multiple genres of narrative fiction, creative nonfiction, literary food writing and family memoir, to offer insight into the micro-minority Eurasian community through the intensely personal lens of the writer's own experience living and growing up as a Eurasian in Singapore. Throughout are interwoven the themes of memory, loss, language, identity and cultural reclamation.

Similarly, it is a reflective and provocative journey of self-discovery; a journey the reader may also take to explore what it means to exist at the confluence of being Singaporean and being Eurasian, and to interrogate the liminal space between two cultures, Asian and European, occupied by this community

A BOOK OF HIMS
by Ng Yi-Sheng
published by Math Paper Press

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In 2008, Ng Yi-Sheng won the Singapore Literature Prize for Last Boy, a debut collection which explored the poet's coming of age as a gay man. A Book of Hims is a spiritual sequel to this work, written with a voice that has grown older, but remains just as eccentric and reckless as before. Once again, he deals with the topics of male love and spirituality, recollecting current and past romances, odes to mentors and holy figures, as well as experiments with diverse poetic forms, including the haiku, the sonnet, the ghazal and the jueju. Heartfelt, surreal and evocative, these poems are a splendid addition to the growing body of Singapore literature. 

A TREE TO TAKE US UP TO HEAVEN
by Jordan Melic
published by Math Paper Press

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Kueny isn’t much of a worrier, except maybe when it comes to her father, the Custodian of a Thousand Generations, whose soul is hanging by a thread. But when her brother, Ah Ti, inherits the throne and smashes the Watercress Elixir that preserves her family’s heavenly reign, her worries take on a whole new dimension.

Left with no choice, the siblings set out in search of a new home, embarking on a perilous journey that takes them through 14th century Majapahit and 19th century Malaya, where they encounter a dreamy prince who promises them the world, and end up in a sparkling city that will consume everything they know.

A mix of mythology, history and adventure—think Journey to the West meets Huckleberry Finn—Ah Ti and Kueny’s story is about growing up and finding a place for oneself in the world. It is also a story of Singapore, different from the one commonly told—an attempt to capture a sense of the fullness of time contained in the land and its people.

AFTERIMAGE
by Werner Kho
published by Math Paper Press

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Afterimage: an image that continues to appear even after the original has ceased. Werner Kho’s debut poetry collection is both personal and yet universal, an exploration of the process of loss and how they come back to us in every different angle.

AN EPIC OF DURABLE DEPARTURES
by Jason Wee
published by Math Paper Press

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This new poetry collection stands as a record of a friendship between two artists formed in the shadow of illness and mortality. Using the renga and haiku as departure points, Wee wrestles with the limits of art and of the document even as he summons werewolves, ghosts, and other myths. Faced with the inadequacies of witness, An Epic moves towards the living in reverse time, opening with obituaries and ending with a renewed beginning.

AND THE WALLS COME CRUMBLING DOWN (2ND EDITION)
by Tania de Rozario
published by Math Paper Press

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ARIA AND TRUMPET FLOURISH
by Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr.
published by Math Paper Press

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In a world inundated by all kinds of texts that can be scanned almost as soon as they’re produced, and that as quickly shimmer away into oblivion, I am overjoyed to sit and read Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr.’s much anticipated first full-length collection Aria and Trumpet Flourish.

Even while observing the necessary ceremonies that we must accord our living, the poet never forgets “time’s swift tumble,” the “tar-spackled road” or its “hairline cracks.” Unlike the ostentatious noise made by certain kinds of musical and other fanfare, the voice in these poems sings always out of a sense of urgency underwritten by love.

In this collection marked by masterful clarity and dexterous handling of forms (including ghazals, villanelles, abecedarians, and epistolaries), we glimpse monks walking the roads, crowds in the hellish circle of an MRT station at the end of the day, and the ghost of Jose Rizal in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The poet recalls boyhood breakfasts fortified with bile and innards; and, for all his wandering, turns again and again to little towns and dusty barrios with homely names where a jukebox plays in a noodle shop called Tres Hermanas. He promises us: “This is my devotion: to account for the world’s bounty, its finite grace.// To exalt the flourishing it contains, to ache for what is taken away” (from “Compline”).

These are poems I will want to accompany me through the ordinary and other emergencies of everyday life; through the rest of the year, and beyond. In them, I might hope to learn more about the chrysalis’ secret—how, from its gold wreck of discarded laments, a dying self might help to birth a new one.

- Luisa A. Igloria, author of The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, 2018); Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (Utah State University Press, 2014); Juan Luna’s Revolver (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009), and other books

BELOW: ABSENCE
by Cyril Wong
published by Math Paper Press

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In his third collection of poems, Cyril Wong wrestles with absences behind the everyday hope of recovering new justifications for a more meaningful existence. His poems move from explorations of love to articulating the demands of loss and memory that drive the desire to poetry.

CAPITAL MISFITS 
by Julie Koh
published by Math Paper Press

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A capsule collection of surreal short stories from one of Australia's rising stars.

A woman arrives on the seventh level of Heaven, only to realise it is a trading floor where the dead swap their karma before rebirth. In a Sydney laboratory, a vagrant participates in cosmeceutical trials in return for a Rolex watch. On an island made out of sugar, a student questions the rule of the benevolent Sugar Daddy. At an open mic night in New York, a zen poet takes the stage and begins to tell the greatest, most devastating joke in the world. In this blackly funny parallel universe, Koh explores the absurdity of a world in which the market has become God.

This special edition of Capital Misfits is illustrated by award-winning New York-based artist, Matt Huynh. 

CHASING CURTAINED SUNS
by Jerrold Yam
published by Math Paper Press

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Diving into the ambivalences and contradictions that are as characteristic of a family as her triumphs, Jerrold Yam’s rousing debut poetry collection is a reaction to the precarious tilt from adolescence to adulthood.

The poems—which invoke subjects as diverse as childbirth, celebrity culture and National Service— extend beyond a struggle for acceptance amid the transience of modern Singapore and into the universal territory of teenagehood. Growing up suggests an inexorable shift to adult sensibilities, but this transition is fraught with countervailing tensions of moving on, letting go and leaving behind. Yet, the collection ends with an optimism that is both agonising and courageous in its desperation for hope.

Alternately lyrical and experimental, confessional and incisive, Yam flexes his poetic versatility by combining ruthless introspection and hard-won catharsis. The ensuing redefinition of boundaries, between what must be left unsaid and what seeks reiteration, holds testimony to a voice that is unafraid of frankness—a voice ready to spearhead the next generation of Singaporean literature.

Dear Hancock（親愛的漢考克）是美國新英格蘭州，夫妻檔一同創立的文儀品牌。其紙製精品，創意靈感源自懷舊、幽默以及日常事物。以手繪的方式回應，並向當代藝術致敬。

「親愛的漢考克」致力於在作品中抒發創作者情懷與觀察，以感性和幽默的方式創造出令人意想不到的效果。創作中，各種細節都不馬虎，以獨到和豐富的想像力，重新為各種生活人事物賦予新生命。同時，認為手書（hand written）是人類不可丟失的重要文化，是表現誠意的不二方式，非常值得保留。

「親愛的漢考克」紙製精品皆於美國印製，採用重磅紙張確保質感。由製作、用紙到包裝，都盡可能堅持使用不傷害環境的環保材料。

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卡片尺寸：11.43cm x 13.97cm（4.5 x 5.5寸）
卡片印製在柔軟的白色紙張上，配以白色／淺棕色信封 - 按Dear Hancock的原先配製。
卡片內頁為空白，供您書寫。

* 聖誕卡「Shimmers Like Snow」，卡片上有燙銀的雪花為裝飾。

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本店同時提供「郵票」的選項，方便新加坡讀者／顧客在收到卡片後直接寄出。目前，僅提供本地郵票；郵票圖片僅供參考使用。

日本酒以米釀造，如此單純，卻因為各種因素的組合，能產生天差地遠的個性。此刻，正是日本酒面對改變的時期。這一本，將解讀日本酒的一切奧祕。

日本酒六大潮流／何謂純米？生酛、古酒、酒器、加熱、下酒菜、日本酒調酒、日本酒歷史、各都道府縣78款必飲的酒、日本酒的搭配、日本酒友的感動名店，以及酒藏的工作風景，此書中都一一為您詳細介紹。

footnotes on falling
by Joshua Ip
published by Math Paper Press

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footnotes on falling is a collection of 44 poems about sub-optimal life choices. the poems constantly laugh at themselves because they are polite, and asian. they shuffle their feet sideways while declining eye contact. they indulge in wordplay because it gives them something to do with their fingers. they prefer to read out but also prefer this be done in private. they secretly would like you to bring them home.

FROM THE BELLY OF THE CAT
edited by Stephanie Ye
published by Math Paper Press

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Writers and cats have long enjoyed a special affinity, unsurprisingly since both spend much time sitting around and judging people. Discover the Lion City through the eyes of its cats and their humans in From the Belly of the Cat, an anthology of feline tales by some of the city-state’s most exciting writers and notorious cat sympathisers.

For best results, read this book at home on the sofa on a rainy afternoon, with a cup of warm tea within reach, and a cat by your side. 

　　最虐心、激情的從軍日記，《G兵日記》三部曲，精彩大結局

　　讀完I、II冊的人都在問：
　　Q：曉飛、小宇這對菜兵王子組合到底會不會修成正果啊？
　　Q：巨根秦天的電話號碼請問幾號？
　　Q：請問這個火辣香豔的營區到底在哪裡？
　　Q：曉飛那招「那你想不想吃……」好好用！我男友……（喔不對，這是心得文！）

　　菜兵 X 天菜（n次方） 「浪」漫又真摯的G情故事最終章
　　把握最後機會大亂鬥，各位兄弟一起上！

　　新生代作家，皮卡忠，以長篇小說《Ｇ兵日記》於網路上初試啼聲（Yep，是處女作），即獲讀者一致按讚破表。善於描寫人與人之間，情／性感流動、碰觸的獨特書寫，讓故事裡每個人都長出各異模樣、情緒，牽動讀者愉快、悲傷、心軟，也讓人興奮、發硬（嗯哼）。

　　雖說「待退頂天地」，
　　但學長沒交代，一旦「頂」起來就是挑戰高潮極限玩群P啊。

　　「一兵黃曉飛，於莒光課發表退伍感言。」我挺著胸。

　　「在這十個月裡，發生了很多事，整個狀況就是，受傷、癒合、再受傷、再癒合。我才發現──」我看了看手上幾個傷疤都消失無蹤：「只要不會讓人死亡的，都是擦傷。」

　　「有些人會傷害你。有些人會支持你。有些人會恨你。有些人會愛你。謝謝你們給了我這麼多回憶，可能再也不會跟這麼多弟兄這樣朝夕相處了，白天一起工作、晚上一起睡覺，一起應付督導，一起……」我看了看微笑的帥氣小宇，突然一陣難受。就是換工作而已，就是跟男友不再朝夕相處而已……

　　「一起談戀愛。」我說完，所有人瞬間看向小宇，露出詭異的笑容或是殺氣。

　　「怎麼怎麼？」小宇清澈陽光的眼神，毫不畏懼。「幹嘛看我？」

　　從什麼時候，我已經不會在心裡稱呼他是大男孩，而是說他是我的男人。

　　對啊……「有句話叫做『當過兵的不是男人。』」我把話說完：「原來，這句話需要修改一下：當兵，是成為男人的其中一種方式。」──《G兵日記III：頂天地》

作者簡介

皮卡忠

　　距離0.00公里遠
　　180／70／27
　　一個當過兵的普通Gay炮
　　專長是讓人笑到勃起或興奮到勃起
　　飼養了ㄧ隻皮卡丘，剛滿兩歲
　　立志成為一個頂尖流浪漢

後記

皮卡忠

　　重要角色的後事一定要寫一下的對吧？畢竟都是虛構角色啊，全部都是虛構的寫一寫也不會怎樣嘛。（是多怕被軍方殺死？）

　　可愛楊新去當了工程師。混血子龍去做早餐店。小小子怡去餐廳當了廚師。小宥勝秦天簽下去受了士官訓當了教育班長。心思細膩第六感神強的肌肉男威育跟著孟哲去做了保險業務成為師奶殺手。色凱最後還是去加拿大打工度假拋下一切。憂鬱弘去做國外業務跟老男人周旋，消失在人群當中。智淵說他買了一個望遠鏡。連長因為體能一直沒過升不了校級。小S副連最猛，他是看了我的小說才發現自己對男生居然也可以。（全世界都知道就你不知道了。）呆呆輔導長後來也調走，如今都不在原本的營區。

　　而那個營區，我他媽是再也沒回去過了，我閉著眼睛都可以想起每個角落是長什麼樣子。那可能是全台灣，我最懷念的一個有這麼多故事的地方了。（虛構的地方……）

　　小宇呢？這又是另外一個故事了。

　　當初只是想寫開心的，從來沒想過讀者不斷支持之下，就這樣寫了一年。途中遇到很多軍士官兵的回饋，許多人就成為我的智囊團，特別是奶茶。最要感謝我的父母，他們這一年來根本不知道我在衝幹小，卻願意讓我就這樣專職寫作。

　　跟著書出櫃問世的當天，爸媽跟已經知情的弟弟跟我在餐桌上。

　　「我寫的書其實是……」我不斷跳針：「其實是……」

　　「幹嘛難以啟齒？」老爸回應：「不要是色情的就好了啊。」

　　「嗯。」

　　不但是色情，而且超色！是會跟《格雷的五十道陰影》放在一起的那種色！

　　最後爸媽才崩潰恍然大悟，但是最後也接受了。

　　「同志沒辦法結婚，我就當做你不結婚吧。」老爸坦然地說。

　　這本書，靠著賈文青的賞識，福熊一路發文，經過編輯郭正偉，然後又是基本書坊老闆邵祺邁出資拍出宣傳片。一路上要感謝的人太多了，那就謝自己吧！（喂）

　　最重要的，謝謝你們買了這本沒營養的書，還有跟皮卡一路走來的讀者。

　　我就不囉唆了，祝大家都能平安退伍囉──

　　現在時間，隨便，撤收！！！

　　報告班長！我都準備好下部隊斷、捨、離了，為什麼陽光暖男、黝黑大根依舊癡癡跟過來？！

　　洗掉菜味的新手G兵總算平安下部隊，下定決定要修身養性（？），沒想到以為從此陌路的天菜小宇、秦天，居然千迴百轉再度一一出現；偏偏部隊裡還「新人輩出」，主演圖書館G片系列的學長、X射體質的敏感恐同男孩、憂鬱書生小陳坤……聽說當了兵才是真男人，但怎麼同袍都想找我一起「轉大人」？？？

　　新生代作家，皮卡忠，以連載小說《Ｇ兵日記》於網路上初試啼聲（Yep，是處女作），即獲讀者一致按讚破表。善於描寫人與人之間，情／性感流動、碰觸的獨特書寫，讓故事裡每個人都長出各異模樣、情緒，牽動讀者愉快、悲傷、心軟，也讓人興奮、發硬（嗯哼～）。

　　這裡到底是什麼天堂，未免也他媽的太幸福了吧？營區全名到底叫什麼？愛的世界營？！

　　「主人你剛……好像有流出來。」他面對我擠擠眼，色瞇瞇地。

　　「幹，真的假的？」我看了一下我的硬物。

　　「有點甜的。」秦天的臉貼近，我吞了口水。他的唇貼上我，舌頭按摩著彼此濕潤柔軟的唇。鼻腔果然有一點豆漿的微腥，而且有點甜，這是我的味道？

　　第一次接吻就有這味道，是從本壘往一壘倒著跑嗎？

作者簡介

皮卡忠

　　距離0.00公里遠
　　180／70／27
　　一個當過兵的普通Gay炮
　　專長是讓人笑到勃起或興奮到勃起
　　飼養了一隻皮卡丘，剛滿兩歲
　　立志成為一個頂尖流浪漢

　　最虐心、激情的從軍日記，故事紙本化重新改版

　　本書宣達對象：
　　● 家有小兒體驗從軍樂的家長：你不動、我不動。別加臉書別囉嗦，真相只會有一個。
　　● 遭追問會否（被）兵變的女朋友：放心，妳仍是女真愛，他只是多個男朋友。
　　● 患有肥皂恐懼症的資深直男：人人都是同性戀，只等遇到真心人。放手衝撞吧！（喂）
　　● 當兵是什麼可以吃嗎的朋友：可以喔──可以吃的○○多著呢……
　　● 到底要進去還是出來的同志：歡迎光臨國軍吃到飽、無限暢飲自助餐。（喂喂喂）

　　──《G兵日記》三部曲，第一部《新訓》──

　　陽光CK暖男小宇（王陽明）＋壞壞大根軍官秦天（宥勝），保證三點全中，啪啪聲此起彼落！

　　新生代作家，皮卡忠，以長篇小說《G兵日記》於網路上初試啼聲（Yep，是處女作），即獲讀者一致按讚破表。善於描寫人與人之間，情／性感流動、碰觸的獨特書寫，讓故事裡每個人都長出各異模樣、情緒，牽動讀者愉快、悲傷、心軟，也讓人興奮、發硬（嗯哼）。

　　人帥真好，人醜煩惱；
　　但媽媽啊──妳真的燒太多香！為何我一當兵，鮮肉投懷送抱停不了？

　　小宇雙手持續舉在半空，手掌動了兩下，無害小狗般的雙眼幾乎要把我電暈。是要給我一個感謝的擁抱嗎？
　　「好啦。好兄弟！」我往前一擁，雙手輕輕擦過他的腰際，摸到愛的把手。
　　嗯？一個硬硬的東西抵著我的大腿，好像是他口袋裡的防水袋。
　　我們放開彼此後，我皺眉看著他的短褲，一個明顯突起在他大腿三分之一的位置。
　　他看了一下自己褲子，然後看看我。「這樣也感覺得到？」他苦笑摸摸鼻子。
　　「嗯，那是什麼？」
　　「我以為已經消得差不多了哈哈。」
　　「小事──」我轉頭離開。
　　啊啊啊啊！居然是晨勃！班長有人晨勃！喝了乖乖水還用晨勃頂人啊啊啊！
　　我覺得自己好沒用。小俊對不起，我被別的男人弄硬了。

作者簡介

皮卡忠

　　距離0.00公里遠
　　180／70／27
　　一個當過兵的普通Gay炮
　　專長是讓人笑到勃起或興奮到勃起
　　飼養了一隻皮卡丘，剛滿兩歲
　　立志成為一個頂尖流浪漢

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I WILL SURVIVE (3RD EDITION)
edited by Leow Yangfa
published by Math Paper Press

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What is it like to be gay and experience bullying in school or National Service? How do you deal with being rejected by your family and religious group because of your sexual orientation? How are women's experiences different or similar to men's? What does one go through in an abusive same-sex relationship, or when one loses a partner to suicide? What does a transgender man or woman go through in Singapore? When you have been diagnosed with a life-long illness, how do you continue living?

This collection brings together real-life experiences of love, grace, faith, dignity and courage from 21 ordinary gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Singapore who have survived extraordinary circumstances.

We will live. We will thrive. We will survive.

About this Book

Life’s Little Instructions

Stand tall and hold your head high;

Life is not about pleasing everyone.

Life’s Little Moments

The most memorable moments are most probably

those moments you didn’t give up.

Life’s Little Ironies

Someone calls you their best friend, but will stab you

in your back at the most convenient moment.

Life’s Little Pleasures

Finding joy in the little things that choose to move around us

silently, it may not necessarily hold great value but it’s where

happiness and sweet blossoms bloom.

Who is Jugi?

It could be you,

It could be me,

It could be now,

It could be the future.

Everyone has a right to life;

Everyone has the right to say no.

About the Author

Ace Khong (小鄺) studied Graphic Design at Lasalle College of the Arts, and he graduated in 1999. He became actively involved in design and illustration, and developed himself into a prolific illustrator.

Trained as a graphic designer he never laid back on his laurels, and has finally published a Chinese illustration book named “Jurogic” his first venture into publication.

The main purpose of his book is to make readers aware about everyday matters, and to use metaphors which lead readers to reason differently. In his work, he wishes to inspire his readers to form their own opinions, and to think about the things that really matter in life.

He remains deeply grateful, and would like to expresshis special thanks to many individuals who have supported and shared their views, thus helping him to bring cohesiveness to his work.

Ace Khong’s Inception Zone：www.acekhong.wordpress.com

I enjoyed translating Ace’s book because

I was doing something I had never done before.

He encouraged me to translate his collection in my own words;

It’s truly a magnanimous gesture, and I am very thankful.

　　　　　　——Porphyras Wong (Senior Graphic Desinger, translator)

LOUD POEMS FOR A VERY OBLIGING AUDIENCE
by Ng Yi-Sheng
published by Math Paper Press

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This book is a compilation of some of Ng Yi-Sheng's best spoken word pieces — songs, diatribes and phantasmagorias — created for assorted poetry slams, readings and theatrical events between the years 1999 and 2016. Dealing with issues of politics, history, cultural identity and queer sexuality, these works show the writer at his most fearless, opinionated and dramatic — a complement to the subtler but similarly imaginative poems of his first collection of poetry, last boy. 

MOTHER OF ALL QUESTIONS
by Grace Chia
published by Math Paper Press

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Mother of All Questions is Grace Chia's third poetry collection about womanhood exploring what home means, how personal identities intersect and the meaning of life by examining domestic psychodrama, childhood innocence, gendered rebellion and the intimate dynamics of love, desire and loss. In Chia's lyrical and elegiac poetry, she makes putty of the female body's vast and richly textured landscape to mould stories of sentiment and the sensuous into callused and tender truths.