Fiction

Description Praise About the Editors The twin cinema, created by Singapore poet Yeow Kai Chai, is a rigid, yet spectacular poetic form that mix...

Description Praise About the Playwright Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Haresh Sharma that explore the fundamentals of text and reali...

Description About the Author In “Track Faults and Other Glitches”, Nicholas Yong takes us on a journey into an alternate Singapore, where the i...

Description Praise About the Author The Tensorate novellas, beginning with The Black Tides of Heaven, have garnered critical acclaim, and hav...

Description Praise About the Author Finalist for the 2019 Lammy Award for best LGBTQ SF/F/Horror and the Locus Award for Best Novella JY Yang...

Description Praise About the Author A Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards for Best Novella The Tensorate novellas, beginn...

Description Praise About the Author The Tensorate novellas, beginning with The Black Tides of Heaven, have garnered critical acclaim, and hav...

Description About the Author Drawing on real-life historical personalities and actual places from 19th-century Singapore, author Dawn Farnham b...

Description About the Author The short stories of Shirley Geok-lin Lim—born in Malacca, Malaysia and now Professor of English and Women’s Studi...

Description About the Author Adam Milan washes up on the coast of Bali after being forced off a yacht at gunpoint by a psychotic captain. He is...

Description About the Author In Vol.2 of The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is nineteen, pregnant, and alone in 1842. She is fleeing a scan...

Description About the Author Two entwined mysteries unfold in two time periods in Singapore: one in the present, the other in the 1920s. Artist...

Description Praise About the Author Ping, the daughter of Chinatown's Pipa Queen, loves Weng, the voice of the people, but family circumstances...

Description About the Author Like Chinese silk, The Red Thread is, by turns, gentle and strong, exploring a love that breaks through the divide...

COMING SOON Arcadia sees the world like no one else. Exceptionally observant, the quick-witted sixteen-year-old finds herself drawn into unravellin...

Description About the Author During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army looted untold amounts of gold and other valuables from across its ...

Description About the Author What’s missing in your life? What keeps you up at night? What will make you happy? What will make you whole? These...

Description About the Poet It feels unkind to reveal a long-held secret of Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems? published in 1988 – the published ...

Description About the Author The year is 1950. Malaya is in the grip of Emergency Rule sparked off by the brutal murder of three British plante...

Description Praise About the Poet As the poet navigates through middle age, beset by questions on ageing, love and loss, and the incipient awar...

Description About the Authors The former soldier, Jaasur, is on a mission of redemption. He ventures through a wasteland to Chamrouen, the capi...

Description About the Author The Phoenix and the Crow is a story of corruption and abuse of authority in a small country town in China. Wang Bi...

Description Praise About the Author A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2020 From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a nove...

Description About the Author Wherever we are in the world, we are always surrounded by news, whether it is an immediate report, or a later, mor...

Description About the Poet This is for you, All you bothersome people Who ask about my next book, Ask whether I still draw Or write anymore. Wh...

Description About the Author Tales of horror and suspense for a new generation of Singaporeans Tales of horror have long been an integral part ...

Description About the Author Everything has a story, even the knotted tree. Besides bearing fruits and providing shade, what is so unique about...

Description About the Author A classic collection of folktales gathered from all over Malaysia, with a story from almost every state. Timeless ...

Description About the Author A mother finds out her son is gay; a daughter finds out her two mothers are lesbians; a niece stumbles upon the bo...

Description About the Author A post-apocalyptic, nightmarish Singapore, with a secret underground network along the SMRT line and a computer cu...

Description About the Author The living and the dead - there is something that binds them. For the living are endlessly fascinated by tales of ...

Description About the Author In Vol.3 of The Straits Quartet, young, beautiful and wealthy widow Charlotte Macleod leaves Batavia in the 1850s ...

Description About the Author Told primarily through the captivating voice of a young girl awakening to a world at war, The Heart Radical is the...

Description About the Author The Flight of the Swans is a rich and fascinating family saga set in British India and Malaya. Cursed, and with bl...

Description About the Author Jasmine Lian left Malaysia behind when she was eighteen and won a place at Oxford. Since then she’s led a golden l...

Description About the Author Dutch expat Julia de Rijck uses husband Paul's telescope to spy on Dave across the pool in their luxury Singapore ...

Description About the Author In Awakening, Rox awoke four years ago without a single memory of who she was or where she came from, and with the...

Description About the Author In the fourth and final volume of the The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is the English concubine. Her love af...

Description About the Author Crimes are few and far between in the city-state of Singapore and the crimes that do occur are usually solved quic...

Description About the Author Gardens are magical places — images of Nature and Culture, models of paradise, spaces where plants live in war and...

Description About the Author The War is over, the Union Jack flies again over the Municipal Building. Life has come full circle. Or has it? The...

Description About the Author Arthur Yap published four major collections of poetry: only lines (1971), commonplace (1977), down the line (1980)...

Description About the Author Prolific writer Colin Cheong brings together three classic novellas and 23 short stories in this first-ever collec...

Description About the Author Cambodia is at war with itself, forcing thousands of its people to flee to the refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian...

Description About the Author This book consists of three celebrated short story collections and an early novel, each reflecting Lim's prowess a...

Description About the Author Terumbu is a love story set in mid 19th century Singapore, of a young Riau pirate and the daughter of a penghulu, ...

Description Praise About the Author A dark, provocative novel set in a world on the verge of a health-induced breakdown, Suicide Club tells the...

Description About the Author The Street of the small night market, a teeming little Chinatown alley. The strays of the city cramp into into ts ...