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The Feng Shui Detective goes West
- Location(s): London, Singapore
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
C.F. Wong, the Feng Shui practiioner meets a client onboard a cruise ship. Murder, Chinese Mafia and a commission to check out the balance of a plane owned by the British Government lead him to come into contact with...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1927
Singapore – a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this inbetween island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese...
Aunty Lee’s Delights: A Singaporean Mystery
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie “Aunty” Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home-cooking restaurant After losing her husband, Rosie Lee could have become one of Singapore’s “tai tai,” an idle rich lady. Instead...
- 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...
Castles in the Air: A Family Memoir of Love and Loss
- Location(s): Singapore, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1920s to present day
An eight-year-old child witnesses her mother’s secret and knows that from that moment life will never be the same. After Molly, her mother dies, Alison uses her legacy to make a film about Molly’s relationship with a man she...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
City of Small Blessings won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2010. A film project based on the novel has been chosen to be part of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation Atelier.A Singaporean retires, migrates and then returns. But,...
- Location(s): London, Colorado, Japan, Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1914-1920 and 1939
At the dawn of World War Two, German-born nurse Emma Taylor sits by the bedside of a Jewish heiress in London as she reminisces over her dear friend, Oscar Wilde. As the story of Wilde unravels, so does Emma’s...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In modern-day Singapore, a successful society upheld by stern government and a respectful population, a young woman is about to break all the rules. Yin Ling, enigmatic, beautiful, and engaged to the wealthy, politically ambitious Vincent Chee, falls in...
Hostage to Freedom: The Search for the Siren
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Adventure
- Era(s): 2002
On a balmy day near noon on Tuesday, February 14, 1764 the East Indiaman ‘The Siren’ came to grief on Brutus Reef in the Sulu Sea. Onboard a rich cargo of 250,000 cases of Ming Dynasty porcelain lay buried...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 / 2000
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked. Only three survivors remain, one of them a tiny child. In a neighbouring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is bundled into the back of a...
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