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Joss and Gold

Joss and Gold
  • Author(s): Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • 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...

Kaya’s Heart Song

Kaya’s Heart Song
  • Author(s): Diwa Tharan Sanders, Nerina Canzi (illustrator)
  • 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...

Kebaya Tales

Kebaya Tales
  • Author(s): Lee Su Kim
  • 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...

Nazi Goreng

Nazi Goreng
  • Author(s): Marco Ferrarese
  • 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...

Our Man in Malaya

Our Man in Malaya
  • Author(s): Margaret Shennan
  • 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...

Out in the Midday Sun

Out in the Midday Sun
  • Author(s): Margaret Shennan
  • 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...

Out of Sight

Out of Sight
  • Author(s): Martin Granger
  • 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

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • 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...

Phoenix Song

Phoenix Song
  • Author(s): Tutu Dutta
  • 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

Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
  • Author(s): Emilio Salgari
  • 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...

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