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- Location(s): Bangka Island, Kuala Lipis, Penang, Singapore, Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s, 1940s 1960s
Malaysia 1962: Juliet Crosby, a plantation owner’s wife, has lived a reclusive life on her Malaysian rubber plantation since the Second World War robbed her of everyone she loved. The sudden appearance of a young woman from Indonesia disrupts...
- Location(s): Penang
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Magical Realism
- Era(s): Modern
This mischievous Malaysian-set novel is an adventure featuring family, ghosts and local gods – from Hugo Award winning novelist Zen Cho. Her grandmother may be dead, but she’s not done with life . . . yet. As Jessamyn packs...
- Location(s): Johor, Borneo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): 1995 - 2006
CRY OF THE FLYING RHINO is set in 1996 Malaysia and Borneo, told from multiple viewpoints and in multiple voices. Malaysian Chinese family doctor Benjie Lee has had a careless one night stand with his new employee – mysterious,...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
‘A magical, exuberant tragic-comic vision of post-colonial Malaysia reminiscent of Rushdie and Roy. In prose of acrobatic grace, Samarasan conjures a vibrant portrait, by turns intimate and sweeping, of characters and a country coming of age. The debut of...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1969
At the center of this engaging “un-love” story is Li An, a smart and strong-willed Malaysian woman of Chinese descent. The conflicts that surround Li An in the politically charged atmosphere of Kuala Lumpur in 1969 intersect with her...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
Age range 3 to 9 Let me tell you a secret – if you have a heart song, anything is possible. Even magic! Kaya is looking for her heart song – the song that happy hearts sing. Her search...
- Location(s): Penang
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kebaya Tales is a delightful collection of short stories, teeming with fascinating and interesting characters, unexpected twists and turns, cultural rituals, beliefs and superstitions and poignant events in the life stories of the Peranakans. Lee Su Kim’s book brings...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
Nazi Goreng is a disturbing story of one young Malay man’s coming-of-age in the big city and offers a stunning portrait of the racial tensions that pervade Malaysian society. Asrul is a fanatical yet naïve Muslim skinhead from small...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
When the Japanese invaded Malaya during the Second World War, it seemed that John Davis service in the country had come to an end. But nothing could have been further from the truth. Davis switched from the Federated Malay...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
- Era(s): 1880 - 1960
The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain’s colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two...
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