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Singapore Love Stories

Singapore Love Stories
  • Author(s): Verena Tay
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Romance
  • Era(s): Present day

What does it mean to love and be loved in Singapore? Singapore Love Stories is a vibrant collection of seventeen stories that delves into the diverse love lives of Singapore’s eclectic mix of inhabitants. From the HDB heartlander to...

The Ambassador’s Wife

The Ambassador’s Wife
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The first body is in Singapore, on a bed in an empty suite in the Marriott Hotel. The second in Bangkok, in a seedy apartment close to the American embassy. Both women. Both Americans. Both beaten viciously and shot...

The Backpacking Housewife

The Backpacking Housewife
  • Author(s): Janice Horton
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lorraine Anderson was meant to be making a Sunday roast, not swanning off to Thailand, backpack in hand! But when she finds her husband and her best friend in bed together there’s only one thing to do – grab...

The Betrayed

The Betrayed
  • Author(s): Reine Arcache Melvín
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Betrayed tells the story of two sisters who love the same man. As dictatorship and political upheaval ravage the Philippines, the sister’s conflicting passions threaten to lead them to betray not only each other, but all that their...

The Big Weird

The Big Weird
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

A beautiful American blond is found dead with a large bullet hole in her head in the house of her ex-boyfriend. A famous Hollywood screen-writer hires Calvino to investigate her death. Everyone except Calvino’s client believes Samantha McNeal has...

The Dying Beach

The Dying Beach
  • Author(s): Angela Savage
  • Location(s): Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

As Jayne and Rajiv holiday in Krabi, Jayne can’t stop her mind straying to thoughts of the future: a successful business, perhaps even a honeymoon. Who would have thought she could be so content? But then their tour guide’s...

The Frangipani Year

The Frangipani Year
  • Author(s): Alexandra Harris
  • Location(s): Banda Aceh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One year after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Angela finds herself flying into the devastated region of Banda Aceh as a researcher for the UN. Enthusiastic and committed, the young American woman arrives at a place swarming with young aid...

The Glass Kingdom

The Glass Kingdom
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, she rents an apartment at the Kingdom, a glittering high-end complex slowly sinking into its own twilight...

The Hour before Dawn

The Hour before Dawn
  • Author(s): Sara MacDonald
  • Location(s): Bay of Islands, Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and modern

rich, multi-generational saga, set in Singapore and New Zealand. The mysterious disappearance of a young child sets in motion a series of events that will haunt future generations of the family. Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer...

The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Lost meets The Hunger Games in the thrilling new young adult novel from C.L. Taylor, the Sunday Times and million-copy bestselling author. *** Welcome to The Island. Where your worst fears are about to come true… It was supposed...

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