Historical Novels

Winner of Singapore Literature Prize 2018, FictionShortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction TitleFinalist for the Epigram Books Fic...

"Reading Nimita’s Place feels a little like moving in to a new house ... the parallel narratives seen through the eyes of both protagonists present...

Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction TitleLonglisted for Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2016 Warran Kalasegaran Look inside the bo...

Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Book Cover Design Boey Kim Cheng Sample   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play SynopsisFor...

Tan Kok Seng Sample   |   Get the E-book  SynopsisA publishing sensation in the 1970s and 1980s, Son of Singapore traces the extraordinary upbringi...

Stella Kon Sample   I   Get the E-book SynopsisAs good as historical fiction gets—The Scholar and the Dragon immerses the reader in the Singapore ...

Ming Cher Sample   I   Get the E-book SynopsisIn the 1950s, the street boys of Singapore caught and bet on their wrestling spiders, gaining not on...

Lloyd Fernando Sample   I   Get the E-book SynopsisAn exciting first novel set in pre-independence Singapore. Scorpion Orchid follows the lives of...

When her husband dies in the year 2000, Wang Di is forced into the solitary life of a widow in modern Singapore. But this new silence brings with i...

Lloyd Fernando Sample   |   Get the E-book SynopsisFirst published by Landmark Books in 1993, Green is the Colour explores how people of different...

Tan Kok Seng Sample   I   Get the E-book SynopsisSet in Penang, the well-heeled Sze family, initially loving, disintegrates as the parents become ...

Tan Kok Seng Sample   I   Get the E-book  SynopsisIn this revealing sequel to his bestselling autobiography Son of Singapore, Tan Kok Seng finds h...

Andrew Koh Sample   I   Get the E-book SynopsisWinner of the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award, Glass Cathedral’s sensitive depiction ...

Robert Yeo Sample   I   Get the E-book SynopsisEnter the world of Holden Heng, the not-so-lucky-in-love protagonist of this comic realist novel th...

Shortlisted for Best Fiction Title for Singapore Book Awards 2016Shortlisted for Best Book Cover Design for Singapore Book Awards 2016 Ming Cher Sa...

Goh Poh Seng Sample   I   Get the E-book SynopsisRegarded as one of the pioneers of Singapore literature, Goh Poh Seng takes on larger-than-life t...

Tan Kok Seng Sample   |   Get the E-book Synopsis:Eye on the World is the third and concluding volume of Tan Kok Seng’s autobiography, where he and...

Lim Thean Soo Sample   I   Get the E-book SynopsisFirst published in 1978 by Pan Pacific Book Distributors, Ricky Star is about a man who strives ...

Tash Aw Running the area's most impressive Chinese silk factory in the Malaysian region throughout the first half of the twentieth century, admire...

Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by its hero, Kwang Meng, as he naviga...

Something made me look from the amahs to the frangipani tree in the corner. And there she was – Ying. I shivered. Was my fever making me imagine th...

Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Elizabeth Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chinese family, travelling by ship int...

From the author of the internationally acclaimed The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent place and ...

A Song of the Wind - which spans from 1960s till 1990s - tells the story of a twenty-one-year-old Singapore Malay remembering his childhood and his...

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...