Saturday, 28 November 2009
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Visitors’ Briefing Room, Level 1
National Library Building
100 Victoria Street
 
What is it about a 92-year-old Hakka woman that so compelled her son to write her life story? Hear from Chai Kee how the memoir of an uneducated matriarch’s roller-coaster life from pre-WWII into the new millennium evolves into a [...]

Saturday, 14 November 2009
4.30 pm – 6.00 pm
Visitors’ Briefing Room, Level 1
National Library Building
100 Victoria Street
 
Roses are read, violets are…violated? If you’re tongue-tied and writer-blocked when it comes to writing verses, join us at the Poetry Clinic!
 
Let the Poetry Clinic doctor, Felix Cheong, give your writing a reality check. Bring along your poem for [...]

A novel targeting secondary students and set in a Singapore secondary school has been launched. Entitled Mystery of the Battle Box, the novel is about three schoolmates — two of whom are cousins –  teaming up to solve a mystery about hidden treasure in an underground bunker which was built during World War Two.
The teenagers stumble [...]

A man finds himself in the middle of a desert, mysteriously provided with tools that are taken away as soon as they become useful – how will he cope? Two men, one blind, the other lame, find each other in an abandoned landscape in the middle of winter. By helping each other, they just might [...]

Saturday, 27 September 2008
2 pm – 4 pm
Visitors’ Briefing Room, Level 1
National Library Building
100 Victoria Street
 
 
Join us for a sharing session with leading Australian poet, Chris Wallace-Crabbe as we discuss poetry over afternoon tea with selected readings by the poet.
 
Latest among the poet’s eighteen poetry books are the postmodern epic, The Universe Looks Down (Brandl [...]