Singapore Swing

£7.99

“Singapore Swing” is a journey through modern day Singapore- a place full of history, contradictions of both old and new, and a reputation as a travel destination du jour.

For generations of Britons, Singapore was the international crossroads of the Empire, the ultimate colonial posting, inspiring artists such as Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham and Noël Coward. Can today’s high-tech city provide a similar kind of inspiration to a visitor?

With fond memories of his time there as a backpacker, John Malathronas returns to Singapore to penetrate the oriental psyche and discovers the hustle among the stuffiness, the thrill behind the Confucian ethic and, ultimately, the joie de vivre in what has been unjustly dismissed as ‘a shopping mall with UN representation’. During his quest he realizes that this overcrowded, multicultural, multifaith city-state can teach us a lesson about co-habitation and mutual respect.