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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...

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....

Sweet Offerings

Sweet Offerings
  • Author(s): Chan Ling Yap
  • 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...

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 Deadly Embrace

The Deadly Embrace
  • Author(s): Simon Eyre
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In the second book in this pulsating thriller series, Daniel Sawyer is once more thrust into danger. This time the people he loves are being held hostage and he must travel to Kuala Lumpur to save them. But not...

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...

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