Novels

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 About the Author It is Singapore in 1870 and Aoki is a karayuki-san.Aged fifteen, Aoki was sold by her father and shipped to Singap...

Description About the Author This book explores the various sources of tension in modern society. This exciting collection brings together thir...

Description About the Author Get the new cover (2023) here! Winner of Singapore Literature Prize 2010 A Singaporean retires, migrates and then ...

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

Description Praise About the Author Shortlisted for the Giller Prize 2018 A heartbreaking and timely novel about courage, yearning, the cost of...

Description About the Author Set in Thailand in the 1950s, this is the story of a young Englishman’s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess name...

Description About the Author Hours after agreeing to marry How Kum Menon, Vanita Sundram is murdered, stabbed while asleep in her fiance's arms...

Description About the Author "Early in my working life I had discovered that salesmanship consisted not of providing people with what they need...

Description About the Author Cambodia is at war with itself, forcing thousands of its people to flee to the refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian...

Description Praise About the Author A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2020 From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a nove...

Description About the Author Throughout his career, Singapore's bestselling author Neil Humphreys has successfully mixed biting wit with pitch-...

Description About the Author Juliet Crosby has lived a reclusive life on her Malayan rubber plantation since the Second World War robbed her of...

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

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 Holding the child in the crook of her arm, her mother stood up and walked towards the river. ‘Where are you...

Description Connections: History and Architecture, City Hall and Supreme Court takes a look at two of Singapore's most prominent National Monum...

Description Praise About the Author The Tensorate novellas, beginning with The Black Tides of Heaven, have garnered critical acclaim, and hav...

Description Praise About the Author Finalist for the 2019 Lammy Award for best LGBTQ SF/F/Horror and the Locus Award for Best Novella JY Yang...

Description Praise About the Author The Tensorate novellas, beginning with The Black Tides of Heaven, have garnered critical acclaim, and hav...

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

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

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

Description About the Author Seventeen year-old Ocean Janak has grown up the privileged daughter of Blake, a geologist turned Calgary oil sands...

Description About the Author Island in the Centre is a 1995 novel by Eurasian Singaporean writer Rex Shelley, which tells the story of a Japane...

Description About the Author In People of the Pear Tree, Rex Shelley weaves two love stories of Eurasians in the torrid, tropical heat again th...

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 "Though I rarely had occasion to use it, I know the word and its implications well. It was truly a Southeast Asian...

Description About the Author When An Mei fell in love with Hussein, she could not have foreseen the tragic events that were to follow. Set in a...

Description About the Author Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death...

Description About the Author Thailand 1942: Sirinya and her family are members of the Thai underground, who risk their lives to resist the Worl...

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 Two entwined mysteries unfold in two time periods in Singapore: one in the present, the other in the 1920s. Artist...

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

Description About the Author A post-apocalyptic, nightmarish Singapore, with a secret underground network along the SMRT line and a computer cu...