Historical Novels

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

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

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 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...

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

Description Praise About the Author In A Bit of Earth, Suchen Christine Lim deftly weaves historical fact and a fiery imagination in a visually...

Description About the Author & Translator Look inside the book   I   Get the E-book War is looming when Anbarasan arrives in Singapore from...

Description Praise About the Author Winner of the New American Voices Award 2023Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the...

Description About the Author Inspired by Singapore’s iconic Samsui women. Amber is a cheeky girl who likes to put her legs up on the chair. He...

Description Praise About the Author Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023 It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang...

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 Seven-year-old Ying Xiong looks forward to a better life in post-war Singapore after the Japanese troops’ surrende...

Description About the Author Inspired by the coolies, the workers who helped build Singapore. Being a coolie is far from cool! It’s hard work ...

Description About the Author Inspired by the traditional Chinese opera known as Wayang. Amber loves playing with her cymbals. But her mother i...

Description About the Author A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain’s most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastat...

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

Description About the Author Inspired by the traditional Malay spinning top known as the Gasing. John Chow is in trouble. Sent away from his c...

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

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...

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 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 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 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...