Historical Novels

Description Book Trailer About the Author Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeShortlisted for the Popular Readers' Choice Awards 2...

Description Praise About the Author & Translator About the Series Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang Look inside the book   I   Ge...

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

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

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 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 has ever seen shut down the town for days, killing 18 people and wound...

Description About the Author Like Chinese silk, The Red Thread is, by turns, gentle and strong, exploring a love that breaks through the divide...

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 What would it be like to be someone else for a day? Join Amber as she explores the worlds of Samsui women and Waya...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Description About the Author Not many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel S...

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 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 Gardens are magical places — images of Nature and Culture, models of paradise, spaces where plants live in war and...

Description About the Author Shadow Play won Best Debut Novel at the 2012 SBPA Book Awards in Singapore and was shortlisted for the Popular–The...

Description About the Author Many men dream of running away to a tropical island and living surrounded by beauty and exotic exuberance. Walter ...

Description About the Author This is the first volume in a sweeping saga of historical fiction that spans the first 100 years of Singapore. Fea...

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