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- Location(s): Bangladesh, Dhaka, Malaysia (Malaya), Virginia, Washington DC
- Era(s): Modern
A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of...
- 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): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master’s severed finger and reunite...
- Location(s): London, Penang, Singapore, Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s/40s and 1980s
The First in the Bamboo Trilogy. Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures endless days of clearing jungle, breaking stone and...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A country at war with itself, a family divided and betrayed, a bond that can never be broken… Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where...
- Location(s): Australia, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1940s
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
What happens when an adoring young bride is met on the doorstep of her new home by her husband s former mistress? Frank, Rose and Nony are about to find out. It is 1924 and the British rule Malaya....
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920 to present
Mary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She is sharp-tongued and ferocious, with more demons than there are lines on her palms. When Durga visits her in rural Malaysia, she only wants to endure Mary, and the...
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