Catherine Lim

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

3. SELECTED PROSE

  • an excerpt from The Catherine Lim Collection

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Fiction

1978 – Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore. Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books.

1980 – Or Else, the Lightning God and Other Stories. Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books.

1982 – The Serpent’s Tooth. Singapore: Times Books International.

1983 – They Do Return..but Gently Lead Them Back. Singapore: Times Books International.

1987 – The Shadow of a Shadow of a Dream. Singapore: Heineman Asia.

1989 – O Singapore!: Stories in Celebration. Singapore: Times Books International.

1992 – Deadline for Love and Other Stories. Singapore: Heineman Asia.

1993 – The Best of Catherine Lim. Singapore: Heineman Asia.

1992 – Deadline for Love and Other Stories. Singapore: Heineman Asia.

1993 – Meet Me on the Queen Elizabeth 2!. Singapore: Heineman Asia.

1993 – The Woman’s Book of Superlatives. Singapore: Times Books International.

1995 – The Bondmaid. Singapore: Catherine Lim.

1998 – The Teardrop Story Woman. London: Orion Books.

1999 – The Howling Silence: Tales of the Dead and Their Return. Singapore: Horizon Books.

2001 – Following the Wrong God Home. London: Orion Books.

2003 – The Song of Silver Frond. London: Orion Books.

2009 – The Catherine Lim Collection. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions.

2010 – The Mother. Singapore: National Library Board.

2011 – Miss Seetoh in the World. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions.

2014 – Roll Out the Champagne, Singapore!: An Exuberant Celebration of the Nation's 50th Birthday. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions.

Poetry

1992 – Love’s Lonely Impulses. Singapore: Heineman Asia.

2006 – Humoresque. Singapore: Horizon Books.

Non-fiction

2005 – Unhurried Thoughts at my Funeral. Singapore: Horizon Books.

2017 – An Equal Joy: Reflections on God, Death and Belonging. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions.

2018 – Romancing the Language: A Writer’s Lasting Love Affair with English. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions.

E-novella

2003 – A Leap of Love: A Novella. Singapore: Horizon Books.

Play

1994 – Kampong Amber. Singapore.


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