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Overboard

Overboard
  • Author(s): Ivy Ngeow
  • Location(s): Cambodia, London, Singapore, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thailand. An epic storm. A shipwreck. A white man has been found alive. But who is he? Suffering horrific injuries and burns, he is taken to a local hospital. He is mute. Everything is a blank. They tell him...

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
  • Author(s): Wole Talabi
  • Location(s): Lagos, London, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The British Science Fiction Award-nominated and Nebula Finalist debut novel from Wole Talabi. This contemporary fantasy is filled with the mythos of Nigeria and features Yoruba gods liberating an artefact from the depths of the British Museum. Shigidi is...

Singapore Burning

Singapore Burning
  • Author(s): Colin Smith
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1942

“The worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history.” Churchill’s description of of the fall of Singapore in 1942, which led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops being captured by the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The...

Singapore Fling

Singapore Fling
  • Author(s): Maida Malby
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Their one torrid weekend tryst is not nearly enough. They want more. French-Filipina beauty Maddie Duvall should be living it up at her challenging new job in glamorous Singapore. But two months after her wild weekend with US Air...

Singapore Noir

Singapore Noir
  • Author(s): Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (editor)
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Say ‘Singapore’ to anyone and you’ll likely hear one of a few words: Caning. Fines. Chewing gum. For much of the West, the narrative of Singapore has been marked largely by its government’s strict laws and unwavering enforcement of...

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:...

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....

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...

TENDER TREACHERY #2

TENDER TREACHERY #2
  • Author(s): H Y Hanna
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A second chance at love, an exclusive island retreat, a secret worth killing for… Leah finally makes the decision to leave her life in London and move halfway across the world to reunite with the handsome, enigmatic Toran James....

The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)

The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)
  • Author(s): Ovidia Yu
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Singapore is agog with the news of King Edward VIII’s abdication to marry American heiress Wallis Simpson. Chen Su Lin, now Chief Inspector Le Froy’s secretarial assistant in Singapore’s newly formed detective unit, still dreams of becoming a journalist...

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