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If We Dream Too Long

If We Dream Too Long
  • Author(s): Goh Poh Seng
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by its hero, Kwang Meng, as he navigates the difficult transitional period between youthful aspirations and the external demands of society...

In Such Tremendous Heat

In Such Tremendous Heat
  • Author(s): Kehinde Fadipe
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Basking in Singapore’s non-stop sunshine, low tax rate and crocodile Birkins on every other arm, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the dream – until their carefully constructed lives are upended by a handsome and mysterious new arrival… Dara,...

Inheritance

Inheritance
  • Author(s): Balli Kaur Jaswal
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1971

A stunning first novel that asks how we confront our legacy and how we accept change. In 1971, a teenage girl briefly disappears from her house in the middle of the night, only to return a different person, causing...

Island in the East

Island in the East
  • Author(s): Jenny Ashcroft
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1890s/WW2

Two great loves. One shattering betrayal. A war that changes everything. Singapore, 1897 Harriet and Mae Grafton are twenty-year-old identical twins born from a scandalous affair. They grew up in India slighted by gossip and ostracised from polite society....

Last Tang Standing

Last Tang Standing
  • Author(s): Lauren Ho
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Like all good Chinese children, Andrea Tang is doing her best to fulfil all her mother’s plans for her life: she’s on track to become partner at a top law firm in Singapore, she has a beautiful apartment in...

Lizard’s Tale

Lizard’s Tale
  • Author(s): Weng Wai Chan
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

A thief. A spy. A mysterious codebook. And a whole lot of trouble. It’s 1940 and World War II is being fought in faraway Europe. Lizard doesn’t know much about that. He lives in Singapore’s Chinatown, surviving on odd...

Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic

Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic
  • Author(s): Lauren Ho
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucie Yi has tried love – it didn’t work. She’s decided that finding Mr Right is a myth, and that finding Mr Right-enough-to-have-children-with is the next best option. So when she meets easy-going Collin Read on a platonic co-parenting...

Marina Bay Sins

Marina Bay Sins
  • Author(s): Neil Humphreys
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Inspector Stanley Low – belligerent, bipolar and brilliant. A Chinese-Singaporean, educated in London, with a foot in both cities. His mission, to eradicate violent crime wherever he finds it. Low is having a bad day. His bipolar disorder...

Notes from an Even Smaller Island

Notes from an Even Smaller Island
  • Author(s): Neil Humphreys
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Knowing nothing of Singapore, Neil Humphreys arrives in the land of ‘air-conned’ shopping centres and Lee Kuan Yew. From the aunties in the hawker centres to expats dressed as bananas, from Singlish to kiasuism, and from Singaporeans abroad, Humphreys...

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...

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