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- 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): 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): 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): 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): 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...
- Location(s): Java, Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore, Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Two audacious women; one remarkable man … When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London to make his name and fortune in the tropics, he takes with him his new wife, Olivia, a raffish beauty...
- Location(s): Bay of Islands, Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s and modern
rich, multi-generational saga, set in Singapore and New Zealand. The mysterious disappearance of a young child sets in motion a series of events that will haunt future generations of the family. Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Hampshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1896 and contemporary
Nancy Roach has fled her dissertation advisor for Paris, where her PhD research is proving fruitless. When her curiosity is piqued by an illustration of “The Parasol Flower” in a 19th century treatise, she is drawn into the life...
- 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....
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