'Others' Is Not A Race: Being Eurasian in Singapore and Malaysia
Description Praise About the Author Winner, Singapore Literature Prize 2018 (Creative Nonfiction) What is a Eurasian? Are Eurasians truly Singa...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Winner, Singapore Literature Prize 2018 (Creative Nonfiction) What is a Eurasian? Are Eurasians truly Singa...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Anna is thrilled to move into a black and white house in Adam Park, confident she will thrive in Singapore,...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Jakarta, 2014. Hendra is ‘Radikal’, a techno DJ at the top of his game. In his relentless pursuit of new highs, he...
View full detailsDescription About the Author It was the dry season, when all Kelantan bursts into artistic bloom, with theatre and contests and all manner of...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Julian Lockhardt, the bombastic, heavy-drinking expat manager of the Samarang Hotel – the most prestigious hotel i...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Aunty Maryam is called to investigate a baffling double murder in her cousin’s village. A well-known wealthy man a...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In 1985, Dr Nigel Barley, then senior anthropologist at The British Museum, taught himself Indonesian and set off ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Drawing on real-life historical personalities and actual places from 19th-century Singapore, author Dawn Farnham b...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In Vol.2 of The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is nineteen, pregnant, and alone in 1842. She is fleeing a scan...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Two entwined mysteries unfold in two time periods in Singapore: one in the present, the other in the 1920s. Artist...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Like Chinese silk, The Red Thread is, by turns, gentle and strong, exploring a love that breaks through the divide...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Jap...
View full detailsDescription About the Author During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army looted untold amounts of gold and other valuables from across its ...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2008 A mother finds out her son is gay; a daughter finds out her tw...
View full detailsDescription About the Author A mother finds out her son is gay; a daughter finds out her two mothers are lesbians; a niece stumbles upon the bo...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In Vol.3 of The Straits Quartet, young, beautiful and wealthy widow Charlotte Macleod leaves Batavia in the 1850s ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Told primarily through the captivating voice of a young girl awakening to a world at war, The Heart Radical is the...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Dutch expat Julia de Rijck uses husband Paul's telescope to spy on Dave across the pool in their luxury Singapore ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In the fourth and final volume of the The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is the English concubine. Her love af...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Gardens are magical places — images of Nature and Culture, models of paradise, spaces where plants live in war and...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Tiger spirits prowl Kampong Penambang in the third novel of the award-winning Kain Songket Mysteries detective ser...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Not many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel S...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Singapore/Malaya, 1892: Chief Detective Inspector David Hawksworth, orphaned, middle-aged and gimlet-eyed, travels...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Singapore/Malaya, 1890s: A cholera epidemic breaks out in Singapore’s congested Chinatown, and Detective Inspector...
View full detailsDescription About the Author As Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary as a sovereign and independent country, what does it mean to be a Sin...
View full detailsDescription About the Author 'Chinese New Year 1915 will long be remembered in the Straits Settlements,' write Edwin and Mary Brown in their ex...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors Singapore Love Stories is a vibrant collection of seventeen stories that delves into the diverse love lives of Si...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Shadow Play won Best Debut Novel at the 2012 SBPA Book Awards in Singapore and was shortlisted for the Popular–The...
View full detailsDescription About the Author It is the First World War and the Flashmanesque German naval reserve captain, Julius Lauterbach, is a prisoner of ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author On a hot August afternoon in 1811 an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows of...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Princess Play was shortlisted for the Popular–The Star Readers’ Choice Awards 2014 in Malaysia. In Volume 2 of the...
View full detailsDescription When Mahita was 15, her teacher at Catholic school in Singapore said she could see the devil in her eyes. While growing up, then ra...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Two audacious women; one remarkable man … When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London t...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Young, western and single, Sara arrives in Singapore on a magazine assignment to detail the long-held attraction b...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In the fourth installment of the award-winning Kain Songket Mysteries detective series set in east coast Malaysia,...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Romy Alexander thinks she is on a break from Monkey Magic as she leaves the forests of Asia for the urban jungle o...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Distraught following a shocking turn of events in Borneo, Romy Alexander arrives in China to witess a wonderful an...
View full detailsDescription About the Author When the orangutans of Mukada Nature Reserve start falling sick, Romy Alexander, who is visiting the reserve with ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author As eight sexy girls strut their stuff on stage, spandex shorts swathing their behinds as tightly as the lotus-leaf...
View full detailsDescription About the Author From the crumbling backstreets of Chow Kit to the gleaming highrises of Sultan Ismail Road, ladies of all ages and...
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