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- 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...
- Location(s): United States (USA), Kazakhstan, Malaysia (Malaya), Spain, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When rogue junk collides with a television satellite 22000 miles into space cosmologist Harry Stones approaches film director Nathalie Thompson to make an investigative documentary. Undeterred by Harry’s lack of sight, their quest leads them from the peaks of...
Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
- Location(s): Japan, Australia, Austria, Cambodia, France, Hong Kong, Malaysia (Malaya), New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Current
Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is short fiction for busy people who love to travel. Six of the stories are set in Japan, and the others in Hong Kong, East Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, France, Austria, the...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Arohan is desperate for a guitar. What eight year old boy isn’t? So when Arohan s grandmother gives him a plain old bamboo flute for his birthday, he is understandably a little upset. But the xiao is no ordinary...
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1849
Would you be the greatest pirate in the South China Sea or would you hang up your sword to be with the woman you love? Malaysia, 1849. The Tigers of Mompracem are a band of rebel pirates fighting for...
- Location(s): Kelantan
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern looking back to WW2
Tiger spirits prowl Kampong Penambang in the third novel of the award-winning Kain Songket Mysteries detective series set in Kelantan, Malaysia. Amateur sleuth Mak Cik Maryam volunteers to investigate the death of a village reprobate, convinced it will be...
- Location(s): Singapore, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency....
- Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 1930s and 1960s
Set in the late 1930s and 1960s, this is the tale of Mei Yin, a young Chinese girl from an impoverished family. Her destiny is shaped when she is sent to Kuala Lumpar to become the ward and companion...
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