Catherine Lim
Catherine Lim is a writer in Singapore. Two of her short story collections were used as literature texts for the CGE Examinations conducted by Cambridge University, and her novels are regularly used in universities and colleges.
Before she became a full time writer, Catherine Lim who holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics, was a lecturer in the RELC (Regional Language Centre) Singapore, conducting courses in Sociolinguistics and the teaching of Literature for teachers in Southeast Asian countries. To maintain her links with the academic and professional worlds, she continues to give lectures at seminars and conferences both at home and abroad. She also contributes articles on contemporary issues in local and international newspapers.
She was awarded the Southeast Asia Write Award in 1999, and an Honorary Doctorate in Literature by Murdoch University, Australia, in 2000.
A Leap Of Love
by Catherine Lim
ISBN: 9789810805944
Price: SGD16.00 (w/o GST)
Fiction - Paperback
Horizon Books
There is a wonderful ancient Western tradition that allows a woman to propose to a man.
But, only on 29 February. Only once every four years. In a Leap Year.
On such a momentous day, late one morning in modern day Singapore, Li-ann, young, bright, beautiful, catches sight of Jeremy for the first time in a busy part of town. She realizes, with a start, that he is her dream man, and move allowed by the Leap year tradition. It is the most creative, imaginative and brilliant move any girl can think of. Jeremy is totally enthralled. Their first meeting is radiant with love's promise.
But alas! Fate, ever mischievous, intervenes with her tricks, determined that love's path should never be smooth. She takes the lovers on an alarmingly bumpy roller coaster rider over the years, as each Leap year comes and goes, leaving them by turns ecstatic and despondent, hopeful and despairing. But in the end, fate is no match for the enduring power and furious tenacity of love.
This novel brims with energy, sparkles with joy and is breathless with the sheer suspense of tracking the memorable twists and turns in the intertwined lives of two supremely gifted lovers.
* A major motion picture by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures
Humoresque
by Catherine Lim
ISBN: 9789810559595
Price: SGD25.00 (w/o GST)
Humour - Paperback
Horizon Books
“Opening the car door for your wife?
Such men, it is said, are few;
You're doing it for only one reason,
Either the car or the wife is new.” The above simple four-line and 364 other verses compiled in this book are dedicated to Singaporeans, as there are many verses taking a good-natured rib at the government and ourselves, with different themes, both entertaining and sobering, such as Sex and Gender, Marriage and Courtship, Science, Politics, Letters to God, etc… The verses were featured daily in TODAY newspaper. To laugh, to cry, to smile, to question, to reflect, to celebrate as well as to lament this very complex thing called life: these 365 simple verses seek to provoke the entire range of emotional and intellectual responses from the reader. n short, engage both head and heart, and have a whole year of both boisterous fun and serious reflection.
Unhurried Thoughts At My Funeralby Catherine Lim
ISBN: 9789810523060
Price: SGD16.00 (w/o GST)
Horizon Books
The author portrays herself as dead and lying in her coffin. During the three days before the final consignment to dust and oblivion, as friends, relatives, ex-colleagues, fans, lovers and total strangers come to pay their respects, she indulges, for the last time, her love of story-telling. Around each visitor she weaves a dazzling tale with her usual exuberant wit, comic brio and warm empathy. But the tales are more than just that. They are the triggering points for what is the central concern of this book - the exploration of those achingly urgent human questions that everyone asks at some time or other in his or her life: Who are we? Where did we come from? What is the purpose of life? What happens after death? Why are we here at all? What is our conception of god in an age of undisputed scientific power? How should we view good and evil, pain and suffering? Is there such a thing as Ultimate Truth? What does it mean to be human?
Howling Silence: Tales Of Deadby Catherine Lim
ISBN: 9789810417789
Price: SGD11.90 (w/o GST)
Fiction - Paperback
Horizon Books
Tales of the Dead & Their Returnstales
In this collection of 14 short stories set in Singapore, popular, best-selling novelist and short story writer, Catherine Lim, tells tales of the living and the dead in her usual riveting style, filling the reader with unease, perplexity, fear, excitement, trepidation, compassion, terror and above all, a profound sense of awe for the mystery that continues to surround the inescapable fate that we call Death
Meet Me On The QE2!
by Catherine Lim
ISBN: 9789810412517
Price: SGD13.50 (w/o GST)
Fiction - Paperback
Horizon Books
It's about East-West cultural collisions with hilarious results.It's about Pan, the God of Pleasure tussling with Confucius, the Sage of Propriety.It's about middle-aged women in crisis.It's about Chinese Strategies of seduction.And it's about the Queen Elizabeth 2 which provides the ideal setting for all these to come together in one grand melee.In this picaresque novel, Catherine Lim, with her usual wit, vivacity and exuberance, writes about what happened when she went on a vacation on the famed luxury cruise ship.
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