Novels

Description About the Author A story on the treacherous yet rewarding path of starting over, set in the enigmatic streets of Vietnam’s former c...

Description Praise About the Author A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by...

Description Praise About the Author Millie Lee is twenty-two, smart and ready to start the Singaporean media job of her dreams. She just has to...

Description Praise About the Author Police sergeant Hafiz lies in a coma after a gunshot to the head. The investigation by Internal Affairs unc...

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 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 A mysterious new variant of Covid-19, dubbed the Singapore Strainis infecting people around the world. It changes ...

Description About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book When two schools merge in their final year of secondary school, Thrii, a...

Description Praise Book Trailer About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the e-book Finalist for the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize In...

Description About the Author Lucky Lee has everything—wealth, charm, money, good looks—and does very, very little with it. He’s content. He’s h...

Description About the Author Harmony Heights is anything but harmonious. In this nineties-style block of condominium located in a forgotten par...

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 Fistful of Colours is an elegant, multi-layered reflection on Singapore as experienced through one day in the life of Suwen, a youn...

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

Description Lambs for Dinner is one of five winners in the children’s chapter books and young adult fiction category of the “Beyond Words: Youn...

Description Living the expat life in Singapore just got crazier for Sarah, her husband Jason and their two children, Ruby and Eric, who are bac...

Description Nominated for the 2018 Popular Bookstores' Readers Choice Awards, Adult Book Category Travails of a Trailing Spouse by Stephanie Su...

Description Praise About the Author Winner, Singapore Literature Prize, 2010 Awardee, SEA Write award, 2019 A Singaporean retires, migrates and...

Description Praise Book Trailer About the Author Winner of the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book A p...

Description Praise About the Author Ram has been ignored and dismissed his entire life. His parents patronise him, his older brother belittle...

Description About the Author A working-class woman who infiltrates Singapore’s high society to fulfill her dreams risks losing everything...

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 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 The famous cross-dressing Cantonese opera singer, Chan Kam Foong, passes away, leaving her secret journal to her g...

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

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

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 Praise Book Trailer About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the e-bookFinalist for the 2022 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeWh...

Description Praise Book Trailer About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2024 (Fiction in English)Shortlisted for Singapor...

Description Praise Book Trailer About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the e-bookWinner of the 2022 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeJasmi...

Description Praise About the Author A mesmerising novel set in Japan, by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida, abo...

Description About the Author Set against the backdrop of an aging boutique hotel, once a jewel of elegance in the heart of Singapore’s Duxto...

Description About the Author This story is inspired by real events.It was a chilly September evening when the body of a young pro-democracy ...

Description About the Author The Tjoa ash house originally intended for ancestral tablets has stood at the top of Kota Cahaya’s exclusive Gr...

Description About the Author Lee Yang searches desperately for Snow amid the carnage of the 2002 Bali bombings. From Singapore’s worst fire ...

Description Praise About the Author Selected by The Business Times as one of the Best Books of 2013 Translated from the Malay by Shaffiq Selama...

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

Description About the Author ‘Yalpanam’, an old colonial house on Coal Island in Malaysia, is swarming with ghosts. Its inhabitant, one hundred...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the e-book Since teen savant Maxine Schooling awoke from a coma to the ne...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book    |    Get the e-book All her life, Audrey has done what is expected of her, followi...

Description Praise Book Trailer About the Author Finalist for the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeLonglist for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award ...

Description Book Trailer About the Author Finalist for the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Look inside the book    |    Get the e-book   |   ...

Description Praise About the Author Get the e-book on Amazon, Apple Books and Kobo Lion dance troupes from across Asia have gathered in Singapo...

Description About the Author Julian Lockhardt, the bombastic, heavy-drinking expat manager of the Samarang Hotel – the most prestigious hotel i...

Description Praise About the Author Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are st...