Here and Beyond: 12 Stories Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards for Older Readers (2012) Machiavelli drew upon his own

Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic

headed by the charismatic Adolf Hitler

why and how did people decide to abolish them

to the crack wars in ‘80s New York

A big novel about a small town

Here and Beyond: 12 Stories Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards for Older Readers (2012) Machiavelli drew upon his ownThis is an anthology of twelve stories from twelve unique Singaporean voices: S. Rajaratnam, Yeo Wei Wei, Goh Sin Tub, Simon Tay, Stephanie Ye, Alfian Saat, Suchen Christine Lim, Wena Poon, O Thiam Chin, Claire Tham, Philip Jeyaretnam and Felix Cheong. These stories chart the emotional ups and downs of protagonists who strive to find meaning against the backdrop of negotiations between the local and the global, between the past and an ever changing,