Historical Novels

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 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 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 Praise About the Author Recommended by The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Barnes & Noble, Apple Bo...

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

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

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...

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

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 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 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 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 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...