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- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
On the eve of World War II, Claude Lim, a Chinese youth, uncertain of himself and his nationality, is being raised in a family that strongly identifies with the British colonists in Singapore. The family neither speaks nor understands...
Chasing the Dragon (Singapore Saga, Vol.2)
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1830s
Set against the expansion of Singapore in the years 1834-1854, Chasing the Dragon (Singapore Saga, Vol. 2) continues to vividly portray the lives of the early pioneers of the expanding port city, including Joseph Balestier, Seah Eu Chin, Captain...
Forbidden Hill (Singapore Saga, Vol.1)
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1820s
On 6 February 1819, Stamford Raffles, William Farquhar, Temenggong Abdul Rahman and Sultan Hussein signed a treaty that granted the British East India Company the right to establish a trading settlement on the sparsely populated island of Singapore. “Forbidden...
Hungry Ghosts (Singapore Saga, Vol.3)
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1850s
Set against the development of Singapore in the years 1852-1869, “Hungry Ghosts” (Singapore Saga, Vol. 3) continues the vivid portrayal of the lives of the early pioneers, including Tan Kim Ching, W. H. Read, Habib Noh, Tan Kim Seng,...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1941-1963
On a quiet moonlit night, Ah Boon, young and terrified, takes his first trip out to sea in his father’s fishing boat – a rite of passage for the boys of the kampong village. As the air hums and...
- 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): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ten-year-old Singaporean Maya is lonely: her grandmother is dead, her mother is focused on her career and her best friend has become a bully. When Aunty M, a domestic worker from Indonesia, joins the family to take care of...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Era(s): 1950s
In December 1950, the worst riots Singapore has ever seen shut down the town for days, killing 18 people and wounding 173. Racial and religious tension had been simmering for months over the custody battle for wartime waif Maria...
- Location(s): Europe, Singapore, Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Romantic novel Kilingiri’ is neither literary nor intellectual, it is not chick-lit, Mummy Porn (I hate that term!) or a nail-biting whodunit. It is, quite simply, a fabulous curl up and read saga which will appeal to readers who...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons...
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