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The River’s Song

The River’s Song
  • Author(s): Suchen Christine Lim
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Ping, the daughter of Chinatown’s Pipa Queen, loves Weng, the voice of the people, but family circumstances drive them apart. Ping is forced to leave suddenly for the USA, where she creates a different life for herself. Many years...

The Scent of the Gods

The Scent of the Gods
  • Author(s): Fiona Cheong
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The Scent of the Gods tells the enchanting, haunting story of a young girl’s coming of age in Singapore during the tumultuous years of its formation as a nation. Eleven-year-old Su Yen bears witness to the secretive lives of...

The Song of Silver Frond

The Song of Silver Frond
  • Author(s): Catherine Lim
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s / 1950s

One morning in Singapore more than 50 years ago, a wealthy, respected, handsome Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children and grandchildren, takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver...

The Straits Quartet

The Straits Quartet
  • Author(s): Dawn Farnham
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Drawing on real-life historical personalities and actual places from 19th-century Singapore, author Dawn Farnham brings to life the heady atmosphere of Old Singapore where piracy, crime, triads and tigers are commonplace. This intense and passionate 4-volume romance follows the...

The Trailing Spouse

The Trailing Spouse
  • Author(s): Jo Furniss
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the bestselling author of All the Little Children comes a novel of marriage, betrayal, and murder set in tropical, multicultural Singapore. Amanda Bonham moved halfway around the world to be with the man she loves. Although expat life...

The Umbrella Man

The Umbrella Man
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The first bomb cracked the Hilton like an egg; the second gutted the lobby of the Marriott; and the third peeled the front off the Grand Hyatt. Three massive explosions, all at American hotels in the heart of the...

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