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  Saturn Peach

  Lily Wang

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  In Saturn Peach, Lily Wang establishes a distinctive voice that is part heartbreak and part wise witness chronicling the strangeness of a technologized world. When asked to describe her book, Wang answered in her quintessential way, “There are things I never want to know but always know. Every day I live with them. Every day I live. I am like a young fruit. Like a peach, common, not the popular kind but oblate, saturn. I live and inside me this pale fruit, yellow and white. I take bites out of myself and share them with you. Maybe you taste like me. Maybe you hold this fruit and become a tree.” If ever there were a book that disarmingly – and seemingly effortlessly – encouraged its reader to become a metaphor, then Saturn Peach is it.

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  The Atlas of Lost Beliefs

  Ranjit Hoskote

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  Commenting on Hoskote's poetry on the Poetry International website, the poet and editor Arundhathi Subramaniam observes: "His writing has revealed a consistent and exceptional brilliance in its treatment of image. Hoskote's metaphors are finely wrought, luminous and sensuous, combining an artisanal virtuosity with passion, turning each poem into a many-angled, multifaced experience."

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  I Married an Ex-Wise Guy

  Selia Sunshine

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  The book is written in a series of memory lane vignettes depicting memories of Selia’s life with an ex-wise guy. The book starts at the end of the story and through the vignettes of the ups and downs of living with him and how a person’s past can follow them wherever they go. The story ends where it started. The love story between the couple who met late in life is dramatic and quite heated. The depiction of how hospice helped Selia through her husband’s dying process was a dramatic life-learning situation.

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  Gaze Back

  Marylyn Tan

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  Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 2020) 
   
  What do we expect of an author who is unapologetically female? What do we expect of consuming art in general? Should a work be easy, should a work be safe? 
   
  Marylyn Tan’s debut volume, GAZE BACK, complicates ideas of femininity, queerness, and the occult. The feminine grotesque subverts the restrictions placed upon the feminine body to be attractive and its subjection to notions of the ideal. The occultic counterpoint to organised religion, then, becomes a way toward techniques of empowering the marginalised. 
   
  GAZE BACK, ultimately, is an instruction book, a grimoire, a call to insurrection—to wrest power back from the social structures that serve to restrict, control and distribute it amongst those few privileged above the disenfranchised.

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  Peanut Butter & Blueberries

  Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

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  Hafsah and Bilal aren't looking for love. Hafsah has her faith, her books, her dreams. Bilal's just trying to get through uni. Studying in London, far from their hometowns of Bradford and Birmingham, they find common ground over a peanut butter and blueberry sandwich.
  But just as their connection is growing, the world around them becomes harder to ignore. As competing opportunities, obligations and injustices get in the way, will they be able to choose each other?
  Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan's play Peanut Butter & Blueberries is a tender and bittersweet love story that explores how to love when the weight of the world is on your shoulders. It was first performed at Kiln Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Sameena Hussain.

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  The Faerie Queene

  Edmund Spenser

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  "Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song."
  
  Step into the enchanted realm of Faerie Land, a world where every forest path leads to a moral trial and every monster represents a vice of the human soul. Commissioned to celebrate the glory of the Tudor dynasty, Edmund Spenser's masterpiece is one of the longest and most intricate poems in the English language. It follows a series of knights—each representing a particular virtue—as they battle wizards, giants, and their own internal failings.
  
  The Birth of the Spenserian Stanza: Experience the lush, musical beauty of a poetic form invented specifically for this work. Spenser's unique nine-line stanza, with its interlocking rhyme scheme and final "Alexandrine" line, creates a dreamlike pace that mirrors the wandering "errant" journeys of his heroes. This style would go on to influence giants of literature from Byron to Keats.
  
  A Mirror for a Queen: At the heart of the poem is Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, a multifaceted allegory for Elizabeth I. Through characters like the warrior-maid Britomart (representing Chastity) and the Redcrosse Knight (representing Holiness), Spenser provides a manual for "fashioning a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline." It is a work of Arthurian legend, Protestant theology, and political intrigue woven into a breathtaking tapestry.
  
  The ultimate fusion of fantasy and philosophy. Purchase "The Faerie Queene" today and lose yourself in the foundational epic of the English Renaissance.

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