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- Location(s): Australia, England, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Dual time 1950s and 2010s
The Emergency rubles through the jungles, the kampongs, and towns as the communist uprising in 1950s Malaya adds poignancy to the salutation, ‘have you eaten rice today?’ when hunger drives some terrorists to surrender. Simon Frampton returns to Malaya...
- Location(s): Bethnal Green, London, Penang
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Penang, 1971. When Suyin is offered the opportunity of a lifetime – a place as a trainee nurse in London’s Bethnal Green hospital – she jumps at the chance to leave her job as a seamstress and unite with...
The Light That Bends Round Corners
- Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Laura, a successful fashion journalist based in London, finds herself uprooted from the world she knows and loves after she moves with her husband and two small children to a dilapidated bungalow in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Behind the house...
- Location(s): Cologne (Köln), Kuala Lumpur, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Contemporary
It begins as your typical boy meets boy. Tom and Ming meet on a night out at university and fall hard for each other. It’s not long before they are planning a future and building a life. Then Ming...
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): WWII
In February 1942, nine-year-old Olga and her family were living in Malaysia when Singapore fell to the Japanese Imperial Army in the biggest defeat in history of the British Forces. Sent to the notorious Changi Prison, they suffered three...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Japanese-occupied Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s children are in terrible danger. Her eldest child Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Jasmin, the youngest, lives confined in a basement for...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Penang
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert’s, comes...
- Location(s): Singapore, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency....
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s / 1940s
Malaya, 1920: Two girls make a promise in the shadows of the jungle. A promise that life won’t let them easily keep. Malaya, 1941: Ella is running her late father’s tin mine in the Kledang hills, while Noor works...
- Location(s): Pulau Sibu
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Pulau Kalah is a fictional island off the eastern coast of Malaysia. Inspired by Pulau Sibu near Tioman IT’S THE PERFECT ESCAPE… UNTIL THERE IS NO ESCAPE Welcome to Turtle Cove. A luxury resort surrounded by pristine sea and...
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