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Song of Survival: Women Interned

Song of Survival: Women Interned
  • Author(s): Helen Colijn
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): World War II

“Song of Survival”, Helen Colijn’s account of her wartime experiences, is a window into a largely overlooked dimension of World War 2—the imprisonment of women and children in Southeast Asia by the Japanese and how these prisoners of war...

Song of the Buffalo Boy

Song of the Buffalo Boy
  • Author(s): Sherry Garland
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

Soy Sauce for Beginners

Soy Sauce for Beginners
  • Author(s): Kirstin Chen
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Gretchen Lin, adrift at the age of thirty, leaves her floundering marriage in San Francisco to move back to her childhood home in Singapore and immediately finds herself face-to-face with the twin headaches she’s avoided her entire adult life:...

Spice

Spice
  • Author(s): Robert A Webster
  • Location(s): Cambodia, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970 - present day

This thrilling unpredictable, yet sometimes hilarious quest will have you mesmerised. Ben Bakewell, the master pâtissier at one of London’s leading restaurants, befriends Ravuth, a refugee from the killing fields of Cambodia who fled to England as the Khmer...

Spirit Tiger

Spirit Tiger
  • Author(s): Barbara Ismail
  • 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...

State of Emergency

State of Emergency
  • Author(s): Jeremy Tiang
  • 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....

Stealing with the Eyes

Stealing with the Eyes
  • Author(s): Will Buckingham
  • Location(s): The Tanimbar Islands (Timur Laut)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current

Will Buckingham travelled to Tanimbar Islands (Indonesia) as a trainee anthropologist to meet three remarkable sculptors: the crippled Matias Fatruan, the buffalo hunter Abraham Amelwatin, and Damianus Masele, who was skilled in black magic, but who abstained out of...

Stranger in the Forest: On Foot across Borneo

Stranger in the Forest: On Foot across Borneo
  • Author(s): Eric Hansen
  • Location(s): Borneo
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1982

Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath...

Street Music

Street Music
  • Author(s): Timothy Hallinan
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eight years ago, Poke Rafferty, an American travel writer, and his Thai wife, Rose, adopted a Bangkok street child named Miaow, forming an unconventional intercultural family. That family has weathered extreme challenges—each of its three members carried the scars...

Sugarbread

Sugarbread
  • Author(s): Balli Kaur Jaswal
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Subtly raising important issues such as racism, religion, identity, class and patriarchy, Jaswal’s second novel sensitively portrays Singaporean life through the eyes of a child. Pin must not become like her mother, but nobody will tell her why. She...

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