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.

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...

I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which bespeaks genius.

In 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Sydney Cove with the First Fleet. This curious young captain of the marines was a natural storyteller. His account of the infant colony is the first classic of Australian literature.

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Berlin, 1933. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago, becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany, where he is about to witness a turning point in history.

In an age when physical books matter less and less, here is a thrilling story about a book that meant everything.

'A staggeringly good first book' The Canberra Times

'The man can write' Bendigo Weekly

In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme.  Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small village called Pozières.  After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task.