Biography

Neil Humphreys is Singapore’s best-selling author with 21 titles to his name. His works on Singapore include Notes from an Even Smaller Island (2001) to Saving a Sexier Island: Notes from an Old Singapore (2015), which are among the most popular titles in the past decade. He also penned the award-winning Inspector Low crime thriller series—Marina Bay Sins (2014) and Rich Kill Poor Kill (2016), which is being adapted for TV. Humphreys has written two children’s book series—Abbie Rose and the Magic Suitcase for pre-schoolers and Princess Incognito for middle-grade readers. He also writes extensively for international newspapers, magazines and online publications and remains one of Singapore’s most popular columnists. And, yes, he played Stamford Raffles in Talking Cock the Movie (2001).