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The Cats We Meet Along the Way

The Cats We Meet Along the Way
  • Author(s): Nadia Mikail
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Dystopian
  • Era(s): N/A

Seventeen-year-old Aisha hasn’t seen her sister June for two years. And now that a calamity is about to end the world in nine months’ time, she and her mother decide that it’s time to track her down and mend...

The Christmas Holiday

The Christmas Holiday
  • Author(s): Maxine Morrey
  • Location(s): Florida, India, London, Malaysia (Malaya), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As winter comes to London, journalist Mia Walker is desperately hoping for her big break as a travel writer, dreaming of exotic locations and sun-soaked beaches. When she’s invited to write a romantic travel piece that ends in a...

The Cove

The Cove
  • Author(s): Alice Clark-Platts
  • Location(s): Pulau Sibu
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pulau Kalah is a fictional island off the eastern coast of Malaysia. Inspired by Pulau Sibu near Tioman IT’S THE PERFECT ESCAPE… UNTIL THERE IS NO ESCAPE Welcome to Turtle Cove. A luxury resort surrounded by pristine sea and...

The Eloquence of Desire

The Eloquence of Desire
  • Author(s): Amanda Sington-Williams
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

“I have just stumbled onto the nicest surprise” – Susan Abraham “an atmospheric novel with thought provoking themes” – Bookish Magpie “A good read” – Book Pleasures “For those who know me, giving a book a 5 is something...

The Forgotten Promise

The Forgotten Promise
  • Author(s): Paula Greenlees
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s / 1940s

Malaya, 1920: Two girls make a promise in the shadows of the jungle. A promise that life won’t let them easily keep. Malaya, 1941: Ella is running her late father’s tin mine in the Kledang hills, while Noor works...

The Japanese Lover

The Japanese Lover
  • Author(s): Rani Manicka
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

A breathtaking and absorbing novel set in Malaya propelled by the superb storytelling instinct of the author of THE RICE MOTHER. Parvathi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and an arranged marriage to a wealthy businessman. But her father...

The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy

The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
  • Author(s): Anthony Burgess
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): post WW2

A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism. Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy...

The Malayan Trilogy

The Malayan Trilogy
  • Author(s): Anthony Burgess
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

This trilogy – “Time for a Tiger”, “The Enemy in the Blanket” and “Beds in the East” – relate the story of race relations in post-war Malaysia on the cusp of independence. Burgess had served in the colonial service, and...

The Plantation

The Plantation
  • Author(s): Di Morrissey
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author – her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared...

The Return

The Return
  • Author(s): K S Maniam
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): pre and post 1957

It is the time for both apprehension and hope. The youthful narrator Ravi witnesses the change in a way of life and the end of a way of thinking. The story depicts the experiences of an immigrant community in...

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