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- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
A true story of 1930s Malaysia, of jungle operations, submarines and spies in WWII, and of the postwar Malayan Emergency, as experienced by an extraordinary man. Rubber planter Boris Hembry was a part of Freddy Spencer Chapman’s covert Stay...
- 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): Singapore, Malaysia (Malaya), Thailand
- Genre(s): Historical, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
A bestseller in 1946, Railroad of Death is the first and best account of forced labour on the Burma Railway. John Coast was a young officer in the Norfolk Regiment who was taken prisoner at the Fall of Singapore...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Malaysia (Malaya), Montreal
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1970s onwards
Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby: in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the...
- Location(s): Perhentian Islands
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Bruised from the breakdown of her marriage, Esther Lomax needs to get away, and Malaysia’s unspoilt shores seem the perfect place. But a day’s boat trip takes a desperate turn when Esther and six other holidaymakers are taken to...
- Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s and contemporary
In 1930s Malaya a sixteen-year-old girl, dreaming of marriage to her sweetheart, is sold as a concubine to a rich old man desperate for an heir. Trapped, and bullied by his spiteful wife, Yu Lan plans to escape with...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Penang
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Before WW2 onwards
This is the story of Philip Hutton, as he grapples with his guilt and pain and the choices he had to make when the Japanese attacks Malaya and his home of Penang
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), India, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Second half 19th century onwards
Beginning in 1885, with the British invasion of Mandalay and the capture of the Burmese king and queen, and encompassing over 100 years to modern-day India and Burma (Myanmar), Amitav Ghosh has created in The Glass Palace a monument...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Era(s): 1930s/1940s
Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman...
- 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...
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