Penguin Books Australia

The Singapore Heritage Cookbook series documents and preserves the cultural and culinary heritage of the different ethnic groups in Singapore through recipes passed down from generation to generation. Each book is made up of two parts: an introduction that provides an overview of the history and culture of the community in Singapore and a selection of delightful recipes including traditional dishes...

Discover the best of Japanese home cooking with Cooking Classics Japan . Written in an easy-to-follow format and accompanied by step-by-step photographs, this cookbook will inspire both experienced and budding cooks to whip up delicious and authentic Japanese food at home. Find classic dishes such as Chawanmushi, Cha Soba and Katsu Don alongside family-favourites such as Baked Hokkaido-style Salmon...

This book provides an account of events during World War II as they unfolded in Malaya, Singapore and elsewhere in the world prior to the Japanese attack, as well as a detailed study of the troops on the ground attacking and defending Singapore.

Lessons from 100 of the world's greatest speakers and speeches – now in new mass paperback edition.

Take a closer look at Singapore's seemingly sanitized soccer scene—not is all as it seems…

Illustrious Australian football coach David O'Connor has arrived in Singapore to very little fanfare. His love for the game and desire to develop the tiny country's fledgling professional league in a big way has seen him accepting terms he's less than thrilled about—that is, if his contract...

Professors of history and military history experts present their analyses and impressions about the Fall of Singapore in 1942.

Recipes from the Nyonya Kitchen contains 70 delightful recipes that reveal the heart of authentic Peranakan cuisine. Along with her recipes, Malaccan Nyonya Chef Florence Tan shares useful, concise notes and cooking tips that give insight and understanding to each recipe, and basic recipes for spice pastes and condiments.

  Provides a clear and detailed explaination of the meaning, context, uniqueness and power of more than 1,000 essential words of the Qur'an

● Presents more than 3,000 fully quoted, necessary-Qur'anic verses in authoritative, accurate and easy-to-understand translation

● Links all entries to other pertinent references and verses in the Qur'an

●  Provides an index and extensive...

  Inside Islam is a guidebook...

In Crossing Over—the book—John brings his readers with him on the extraordinary journey that has been his life since his New York Times bestseller One Last Time was published in 1998. In the style of his TV show and personal appearances—poignant, funny, and remarkably candid—John deals head-on with the controversial issues he has confronted on his voyage as a psychic medium...

In What If God Were the Sun, John Edward, best-selling author of Crossing Over, weaves a warm and poignant story about one family and their way of dealing with life, love and death over the generations. John draws upon his vast experience with individuals throughout the world - and their loved ones who have crossed over - to create a timeless tale that will touch? the heart of anyone who reads it...

Internationally acclaimed psychic medium John Edward takes his talents to new levels and new countries in his fourth book, AFTER LIFE: Answers from the Other Side.

Four families. One tunnel. And the survival of the country is at stake. Against the backdrop of serial terrorist attacks in New York City, psychic medium John Edward 's second novel follows the lives of four people and their diverse experiences with life and death on personal and global levels. 

At length, almost to our sorrow, we made the land upon the 3rd of June 1790, just one year all but one day from our leaving the river. We landed all our convicts safe.

First published in 1822, this is the extraordinary story of John Nicol, a sailor who circled the globe twice, fought Napoleon's navy, was in Hawaii just after Cook's death, and went to Port Jackson on a Second Fleet vessel with its cargo...

'I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother not to be pitied also who has no alternative only to put up with the brutal and cowardly conduct of a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish Bailiffs or english landlords which is better known as Officers of Justice...

The drumming of the guns continued, with bursts of great intensity. It was as though a gale streamed overhead, piling up great waves of sound, and hurrying them onwards to crash in surf on the enemy entrenchments. The windless air about them, by its very stillness, made that unearthly music more terrible to hear.

Hailed by Eliot, Pound, Lawrence and Hemingway, and based on the author's own experiences...

The vast interior of this new continent was wrapped in total obscurity; and excited, perhaps on that very account, full as much curiosity as did the forms of the shores.

In this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australia's greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivating detail his epic mission to map our shores between 1796 and 1803.

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Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. 'Without some change,' he wrote, 'I see little chance for any of us.'

In 1860, an eccentric Irish policeman and a shy English scientist led a cavalcade of men and camels out of Melbourne to cross the continent south to north. Less than a year later seven men...