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- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Penang
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert’s, comes...
- Location(s): London, Penang, Singapore, Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s/40s and 1980s
The First in the Bamboo Trilogy. Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures endless days of clearing jungle, breaking stone and...
- Location(s): Penang
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1788
1788, Penang, Malaya: A young man desperate to prove himself becomes enmeshed in the web of deceit woven by an ambitious adventurer whose double-dealing imperils the island’s inhabitants. Malaya, 1788: Aspiring journalist Jim Lloyd jeopardises his future in ways...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Penang
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Before WW2 onwards
This is the story of Philip Hutton, as he grapples with his guilt and pain and the choices he had to make when the Japanese attacks Malaya and his home of Penang
- Location(s): Bangka Island, Kuala Lipis, Penang, Singapore, Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s, 1940s 1960s
Malaysia 1962: Juliet Crosby, a plantation owner’s wife, has lived a reclusive life on her Malaysian rubber plantation since the Second World War robbed her of everyone she loved. The sudden appearance of a young woman from Indonesia disrupts...
- Location(s): Penang
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kebaya Tales is a delightful collection of short stories, teeming with fascinating and interesting characters, unexpected twists and turns, cultural rituals, beliefs and superstitions and poignant events in the life stories of the Peranakans. Lee Su Kim’s book brings...