Historical Novels

Description About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction TitleLonglisted for Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2016 Look...

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Description Praise About the Author A powerful story of young love and idealism set in Singapore in the 1960s, a time of political uncertaintie...

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Description Praise About the Author Shortlisted for NUS Singapore History Prize 2021Winner of Singapore Literature Prize 2018, FictionShortlist...

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Description About the Author Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by i...

Description About the Author Kuang was five years old when he first arrived in Singapore from Shantou, China. Reunited with his abusive good-fo...

Description About the Author Singaporeans found themselves having to navigate livelihoods and relationships in unexpected tragicomic ways. Sibl...

Description About the Author An emotional and compelling historical coming-of-age tale set in the islands of the Malay Archipelago. The story ...

Description About the Author Nazi Goreng is a disturbing story of one young Malay man’s coming-of-age in the big city and offers a stunning por...

Description Praise About the Author There are obscure emotions that reside in every one of us, where language cannot reach, because its waters ...

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Description Praise About the Author Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are st...

Description About the Author In December 1950, the worst riots Singapore has ever seen shut down the town for days, killing 18 people and wound...

Description About the Author It is 1924, and the British rule Malaya. Guy is a colonial administrator in charge of Kluanak, a remote district d...

1819. That was the year Stamford Raffles landed at South Point and founded Singapore. It was also the year that the famous Muslim saint Habib Nuh c...

Description About the Author Mirza, a secretive neighbour of the Chens in Japanese Occupied Singapore, is a known collaborator and blackmailer....

Description About the Author First in a delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, introducing amateur sleuth Su Lin, a local g...

Description About the Author Told primarily through the captivating voice of a young girl awakening to a world at war, The Heart Radical is the...

Description About the Author Two audacious women; one remarkable man … When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London t...

Description About the Author The Allies have defeated Germany in Europe, but Japan refuses to surrender the East. In Singapore, amid rumours th...

Description About the Author In Vol.2 of The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is nineteen, pregnant, and alone in 1842. She is fleeing a scan...

Description About the Author In Vol.3 of The Straits Quartet, young, beautiful and wealthy widow Charlotte Macleod leaves Batavia in the 1850s ...

Description About the Author In the fourth and final volume of the The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is the English concubine. Her love af...

Description About the Author It is the First World War and the Flashmanesque German naval reserve captain, Julius Lauterbach, is a prisoner of ...

Description About the Author The affair of the planter’s wife running off with her driver had been a burning topic in the British High Commissi...

Description About the Author In December 1950, the worst riots Singapore had ever seen shut down the town for days, killing 18 people and wound...

Description About the Author In late nineteenth century Tana Toraja, Indonesia, Minah, an orphaned shaman, makes a dangerous pact with a jinn, ...

Description Praise About the Author This is the story of Ho Chi Minh’s adventurous journey across the mountains and jungles of northeastern Sia...

Description About the Author Su Lin is doing her dream job: assistant at Singapore's brand new detective agency. Until Bald Bernie decides a 'l...

Description About the Author Has Su Lin summoned a tree demon who is now killing on her behalf? The overpoweringly fragrant flowers, snakelike ...

Description About the Author The second novel in Ovidia Yu's delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, featuring amateur sleut...

Description About the Author Drawing on real-life historical personalities and actual places from 19th-century Singapore, author Dawn Farnham b...

Description About the Author Adam Milan washes up on the coast of Bali after being forced off a yacht at gunpoint by a psychotic captain. He is...

Description About the Author Two entwined mysteries unfold in two time periods in Singapore: one in the present, the other in the 1920s. Artist...

Description Praise About the Author Ping, the daughter of Chinatown's Pipa Queen, loves Weng, the voice of the people, but family circumstances...

Description About the Author During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army looted untold amounts of gold and other valuables from across its ...

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...