Historical Novels

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Description Praise About the Author Look inside the bookGet the E-book    Listen to the audiobook A publishing sensation in the 1970s and 1980s...

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Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book  I   Get the E-book As good as historical fiction gets—The Scholar and the Dragon imme...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the bookGet the E-book    Listen to the audiobook In the 1950s, the street boys of Singapore ca...

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Description Praise About the Author Look inside the bookGet the E-book    Listen to the audiobook In this revealing sequel to his bestselling a...

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Description About the Author Balik Kampung is a collection of eight new tales of home written by authors who have lived in their neighbourhoods...

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Description Praise About the Author Look inside the bookGet the E-book    Listen to the audiobook Enter the world of Holden Heng, the not-so-lu...

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Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book   I   Get the E-book Regarded as one of the pioneers of Singapore literature, Goh Poh ...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book  I  Get the E-book First published in 1978 by Pan Pacific Book Distributors, Ricky Sta...

Description About the Author Running the area's most impressive Chinese silk factory in the Malaysian region throughout the first half of the t...

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

Five unforgettable out-of-print novels by five of Singapore's best writers re-published for a new generation of readers. The colourful covers of th...

Description Praise About the Author Rice Bowl - A first novel from the first Singapore Literature Prize Winner. It was a thrusting world out th...

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 For centuries, Peninsula Malaya attracted fortune hunters, money-grabbing pirates and migrants seeking a better li...

Description Mems collecting water-lilies, bargaining for tropical birds, feasting on turtle steaks, visiting a coffee plantation and nearly fai...

A tuan discovers his cook has included tiger meat in his curry. Sampan boys race down the Singapore River. A gang robs dhobies and make off with sh...

Description About the Author The Flight of the Swans is a rich and fascinating family saga set in British India and Malaya. Cursed, and with bl...

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

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...

The easy and indulgent life of established colonials shown in full swing. These memoirs of travellers and residents include extracts from the follo...

Description A gun on Fort Canning signals morning call. A long walk on country roads is followed by lolling about the bungalow verandah. At 9 o...

A penniless American traveller lands a gig as the ragtime pianist of a waterfront saloon and begins a journey filled with drunken sailors, bar figh...

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...

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 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 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 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 Crimes are few and far between in the city-state of Singapore and the crimes that do occur are usually solved quic...

Description About the Author Jasmine Lian left Malaysia behind when she was eighteen and won a place at Oxford. Since then she’s led a golden l...

Description About the Author The Phoenix and the Crow is a story of corruption and abuse of authority in a small country town in China. Wang Bi...