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A book that will be released soon (I've already pre-ordered my copy!):
Dear friends,
After more than two years of writing, research, rewriting and polishing, the book Singapore: A Biography, by Mark Ravinder Frost & Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, is going to be launched this October in Singapore.
* 400 pages of lively writing about Singapore history, as you've never quite heard it before
* Over 300 illustrations – prints, paintings and photographs
* Pirates! Prostitutes! Secret societies!
* David Marshall! Lee Kuan Yew! Lim Chin Siong!
* And much more, of course ...
Learn more at our website: http://www.singaporebiography.com/
And come to our book events:
* Sun, 18 Oct 2009, 2pm, National Library: "History as literature: the writing of Singapore: A Biography"
* Tue, 20 Oct 2009, 7.30pm, Polymath & Crust: "Singapore: A Biography – a reading & discussion"
* Sat, 24 Oct 2009, 2pm, National Museum of Singapore: "Heroes, villains and ordinary citizens: a short history of Singaporean dissent"
* Sat, 31 Oct 2009, 11am, Singapore Writers Festival, at Earshot, The Arts House: "Finding the Singapore Story"
The book will be sold at all events and available from mid-October at bookstores in Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Australia. It will be distributed in the US and the UK in early 2010.
More event details below, with a preview of our book cover. Registration is required for the National Library and National Museum events:
* National Library RSVP: http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg/Event.aspx?EventID=30211
* National Museum RSVP: http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/nms/nms_html/nms_content_6c.asp?content_template=4&content_id=12&tab_id=12&cine_id=1847&fest_id=0
