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Singapore Fling

Singapore Fling
  • Author(s): Maida Malby
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Their one torrid weekend tryst is not nearly enough. They want more. French-Filipina beauty Maddie Duvall should be living it up at her challenging new job in glamorous Singapore. But two months after her wild weekend with US Air...

Singapore Noir

Singapore Noir
  • Author(s): Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (editor)
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Say ‘Singapore’ to anyone and you’ll likely hear one of a few words: Caning. Fines. Chewing gum. For much of the West, the narrative of Singapore has been marked largely by its government’s strict laws and unwavering enforcement of...

Singer in the Night

Singer in the Night
  • Author(s): Olja Savicevic
  • Location(s): Croatia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Singer in the Night is a story about life, love and the fragility of memory, both personal and historical. Motivated by the disappearance of her artistic ex-husband – Nightingale – famous screenwriter Clementine embarks on an unforgettable trip down...

Singer Lane

Singer Lane
  • Author(s): Janet Purcell
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1900s and present day

Artist, Matthew Callahan goes to Cape Cod in winter to try to put his alcohol-wrecked life back together. He takes a job assisting an aging Princeton scholar and, during time off, stumbles on an abandoned cabin in the woods....

Singing Away the Hunger

Singing Away the Hunger
  • Author(s): Mpho ‘M’atsepo Nthunya
  • Location(s): Lesotho
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Mpho describes a life of grinding poverty and endless toil, of cruelty and tragedy, that would have crushed most people but has revealed in her a resilience and an independent spirit.

Singing for Freedom

Singing for Freedom
  • Author(s): Ani Choying Drolma
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Ani Choying Drolma was born in Bouddha. Her childhood was full of suffering and she grew up with much pain and complexity. To get rid of the pain due to her father’s death, she went into a monastery and...

Singing Lizards

Singing Lizards
  • Author(s): Evadeen Brickwood
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bridget Reinhold is not exactly the adventurous type, but when her sister Claire disappears in Southern Africa, nothing can keep her in England. Bridget launches herself into the search in Botswana and hits one obstacle after the other. Soon,...

Single All the Way

Single All the Way
  • Author(s): Karen King
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I can see my mother is calling me. I answer the phone, knowing I’ll have to tell her about Oliver and me breaking up. But before I can, she announces, ‘I don’t exactly know how to tell you this…...

Single in the Snow

Single in the Snow
  • Author(s): Helen Whitaker
  • Location(s): Whistler
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jen is turning thirty and has spent her entire life jumping from man to man. So, when her latest relationship ends in disaster, she decides she needs to stop pleasing others and focus on herself. And where better to...

Single Man Dancing Alone

Single Man Dancing Alone
  • Author(s): Nick Kelly
  • Location(s): Qatar
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970 to present day

James O’Bryan arrives in Qatar in 1977 to take up his post as an English language teacher. His intention is to stay for two years and then continue his travels. However, when he meets the Al Bahr family he...

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