Fiction

Description About the Author This epic novel is set against the backdrop of the Sino-Japanese war, from the time Japan annexed Manchuria in the...

Description Praise About the Author A lush, sweeping account of the Black Hole of Calcutta in 1756 Rich storytelling and vividly drawn charact...

Description About the Author Winner of 2019 Singapore Books Awards Best Middle Grade/Young Adult Title Privileged, sensitive and smart, Eric Te...

Praise About the Author These stories are told with a lucid economy of style and a singular depth of understanding. They bear witness in the wa...

Description About the Author Crime Scene Asia: when forensic evidence becomes the silent witness is a casebook of fascinating true stories from...

Description About the Author A new novel by the author of the young adult trilogy, Raising Arcadia Poised to be 2020's We Were Liars Clever, ...

Description About the Author The novel is set in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, against a backdrop of political turmoil and social changes. Married to weal...

Description About the Author When a foreign worker is found dead in a Singapore back street, few people care. But then another victim turns up,...

Description Praise About the Author Holding the child in the crook of her arm, her mother stood up and walked towards the river. ‘Where are you...

Description About the Author "Though I rarely had occasion to use it, I know the word and its implications well. It was truly a Southeast Asian...

Description About the Author Sister Swing chronicles the growing up years of three sisters. It follows their transplant from a relatively shelt...

Description About the Author This book consists of three celebrated short story collections and an early novel, each reflecting Lim's prowess a...

Description About the Author Prolific writer Colin Cheong brings together three classic novellas and 23 short stories in this first-ever collec...

Description About the Author In Awakening, Rox awoke four years ago without a single memory of who she was or where she came from, and with the...

Description About the Author A post-apocalyptic, nightmarish Singapore, with a secret underground network along the SMRT line and a computer cu...

Description About the Author A classic collection of folktales gathered from all over Malaysia, with a story from almost every state. Timeless ...

Description About the Author Tales of horror and suspense for a new generation of Singaporeans Tales of horror have long been an integral part ...

Description About the Author Wherever we are in the world, we are always surrounded by news, whether it is an immediate report, or a later, mor...

Description About the Author The year is 1950. Malaya is in the grip of Emergency Rule sparked off by the brutal murder of three British plante...

Description About the Author In “Track Faults and Other Glitches”, Nicholas Yong takes us on a journey into an alternate Singapore, where the i...

Description About the Author Uncanny valley refers to the phenomenon that occurs when a robot looks and moves almost, but not exactly, like a n...

Description Praise About the Author Home. In tropical Southeast Asia, Rox has finally reunited with her family. No more dumpster diving, shelte...

Description About the Author Provides a detailed and updated analysis of REITs. Focuses on how a REIT investor can make millions in REITs in a...

Description About the Author The residents of Block 204 have a few months before their building is torn down, before they are scattered through...

Description Praise About the Author The most significant aspect of living in a kampong was its kampong spirit—or gotong royong. Though deprived...

Description About the Author When An Mei fell in love with Hussein, she could not have foreseen the tragic events that were to follow. Set in a...

Description About the Author The short stories of Shirley Geok-lin Lim—born in Malacca, Malaysia and now Professor of English and Women’s Studi...

Description About the Author This collection gathers three of Philip Jeyaretnam’s best-known works in a single volume. Together, they showcase ...

Description About the Author Nights of the Dark Moon is a collection of 13 dark folktales compiled from around Asia, with two bonus stories fro...

Description About the Author The living and the dead - there is something that binds them. For the living are endlessly fascinated by tales of ...

Description About the Author The 12 stories in this collection electrify by their dazzling diversity of subject, their relentless observation a...

Description About the Author This collection of eight short stories combines Catherine Lim’s sharp powers of observation with her insightful co...

Description About the Author Brimming with energy, A Leap of Love sparkles with joy and will leave you breathless with the sheer suspense of tr...

Description About the Author The War is over, the Union Jack flies again over the Municipal Building. Life has come full circle. Or has it? The...

Description About the Author Cambodia is at war with itself, forcing thousands of its people to flee to the refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian...

Description About the Author Out of a silent harvest, a scorched Maekung valley, comes the stirring story of Jinda, a courageous young Thai gir...

Description About the Author The Street of the small night market, a teeming little Chinatown alley. The strays of the city cramp into into ts ...

Description About the Author "Early in my working life I had discovered that salesmanship consisted not of providing people with what they need...

Description About the Author Hours after agreeing to marry How Kum Menon, Vanita Sundram is murdered, stabbed while asleep in her fiance's arms...

Description About the Author This book explores the various sources of tension in modern society. This exciting collection brings together thir...

Description About the Author Throughout his career, Singapore's bestselling author Neil Humphreys has successfully mixed biting wit with pitch-...

Description About the Author Match Fixer takes place inside the murky underbelly of Asian Football. The so-called squeaky clean city-state of S...

Description About the Author Sometimes scoring isn't the only thing when you're a striker, as top tier footballer, Scott, has found out. He's a...

Description Love and sex, or perhaps lust to be more accurate, has made many men and women run afoul of the law. When passion and desire take o...

Description About the Authors When it comes to children, every parent goes through a countless amount of headaches, heartaches and worries. But...

Description About the Author This collection of 26 short stories represents the prizewinning entries of the annual Asiaweek short story competi...

Description About the Author In People of the Pear Tree, Rex Shelley weaves two love stories of Eurasians in the torrid, tropical heat again th...

Description About the Author Island in the Centre is a 1995 novel by Eurasian Singaporean writer Rex Shelley, which tells the story of a Japane...