Ana Book Store

The Ana Book Store is a second-hand bookstore in stall 1, floor 5 of Far East Plaza, 14 Scots Road, Singapore. It is owned by a 70 year old Bengali man named Mohammad Noorul Islam. It is the last second-hand bookstore in Orchard Road. The name, Ana, came from the owner's mother, Sultana.

History
The original store, known as the Modern Book Store, was founded in 1939 by M. Mohd Aksir, who came from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1938. He set up the store on Singapore’s Bras Basah Road. In 1978, M. Mohammad Aksir and his father died, leaving Aksir's son, Mohammad Noorul Islam, to run the store. Noorul Islam later changed the bookstore's name to the Ana Book Store. In 1993, when the building housing the original shop was destroyed, the store was moved to Far East Plaza. Customers dubbed Noorul Islam the “Mr Bean of Singapore”, something that local newspapers caught on to, garnering the store more publicity.