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Singapore Swing

Singapore Swing
  • Author(s): John Malathronas
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

For generations of Britons, Singapore was the international crossroads of the Empire, the ultimate colonial posting, the stimulus for writers such as Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham or Noel Coward. Can today’s hightech 24-hour city with its gleaming skyscrapers and...

Smokescreen

Smokescreen
  • Author(s): Khaled Talib
  • Location(s): Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

The Plot to Assassinate the Israeli Prime Minister At an ancient café in Cairo, two veteran spies plot a covert mission to resolve — once and for all — the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. The pledge: Israel will make...

TENDER DECEIT #1

TENDER DECEIT #1
  • Author(s): H Y Hanna
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

He was her first love… Now he could be the man who wants her dead. Leah Fisher returns to her childhood home of Singapore after her father dies in mysterious circumstances and finds that the boy she once loved...

The Friend Zone Experiment

The Friend Zone Experiment
  • Author(s): Zen Cho
  • Location(s): London, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present day

From the renowned, award-winning author Zen Cho comes a delightfully funny romance about family, class, and love in modern London. From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, running a glamorous–and successful–fashion company in London,...

The Moonlight Palace

The Moonlight Palace
  • Author(s): Liz Rosenberg
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in...

Crazy Rich Asians

Crazy Rich Asians
  • Author(s): Kevin Kwan
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Crazy: When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn’t know is that...

The Singapore Grip

The Singapore Grip
  • Author(s): J G Farrell
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1939

Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn’t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the...

King Rat

King Rat
  • Author(s): James Clavell
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons...

The Scent of Frangipani

The Scent of Frangipani
  • Author(s): Anjana Rai Chaudhuri
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s

Colonial Singapore. A love triangle. Will one woman’s jealousy destroy everyone? It is 1931 in colonial Singapore. A Chinese bondmaid of fifteen stands trial for her aunt’s murder. Mei Mei, born on the inauspicious double seventh day, feels her...

Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies
  • Author(s): Hwee Hwee Tan
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Trouble often comes with a late-night phone call. So it comes to Mei, a twenty-something Singaporean lawyer about to face the greatest trial of her life. Her English boyfriend Andy, working in Singapore as a teacher, has been arrested,...

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