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MONSOON BOOKS
2015 catalogue
2
(new & forthcoming)
#AFICTION
NEW FICTION
(new & forthcoming)
NEW FICTION 3
Spirit Tiger (Kain Songket Mysteries, Vol. 3)
Bamboo Island
Tiger spirits prowl Kampong Penambang in the third novel of the award-winning Kain
Songket Mysteries series set in Kelantan, Malaysia. Amateur sleuth Makcik [Aunty]
Maryam volunteers to investigate the death of a village reprobate, convinced it will be a
quick investigation with clear suspects. But her detection soon spirals out of control with a
plethora of suspects who wanted him dead, including almost everyone he knew. Maryam
falls victim to a hala spell turning her into a were-tiger, terrifying her and her family, leaving
her vulnerable to any number of evil influences. Join Maryam in her latest adventure, Spirit
Tiger, as she investigates Kelantan’s gambling underworld.
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. However, the
sudden appearance of a young woman from Indonesia disrupts her lonely existence and stirs
up unsettling memories. Juliet is forced to recollect her prewar marriage, her experiences
during the Second World War – hiding from the Japanese in Singapore before being captured,
tortured then imprisoned with other \POWs in Changi Prison – and the loss of those she once
held dear.
Barbara Ismail
Ann Bennett
Bamboo Island is volume two in a Southeast Asian WWII trilogy that includes Bamboo
Heart and Bamboo Road.
In the Kain Songket Mysteries series, readers are introduced to Kelantan, an isolated, rural,
staunchly Muslim state in northeast Malaysia, where the culture differs from Malay culture
in the rest of the country, as reflected in the cuisine, arts and the peculiar Kelantanese dialect,
which is unintelligible even to speakers of standard Malay.
Genre: ISBNs: Genre: ISBNs: Fiction / Historical
9789814625173 (pb) / 9789814625180 (e)
Fiction / Amateur Sleuth
9789814625111 (pb) / 9789814625128 (e)
ALSO IN THIS SERIES
ALSO IN THIS SERIES
Shadow Play (Vol. 1)
Princess Play (Vol. 2)
ISBNs: ISBNs: 9789814358682 (pb)
9789814358699 (e)
BEST DEBUT NOVEL
SBPA Book Awards 2012,
Singapore
9789814423427 (pb)
9789814423434 (e)
SHORTLISTED
Popular Readers’ Choice Awards
2014, Malaysia
SHORTLISTED
Popular Readers’ Choice Awards
2013, Malaysia
Olivia & Sophia
Rosie Milne
Set in London, Java, Sumatra and Singapore, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars,
which were fought in Asia between the European powers, this historical novel takes the form
of two diaries of Sir Stamford Raffles’ two wives: Olivia and Sophia. Raffles, the founder of
Singapore, was a key figure in the history of the British Empire. His two wives were both
extraordinary women. Olivia was a raffish beauty who was ten years older than him. Sophia
was the first white woman to venture into the Sumatran interior.
Raffles’ life reads like fiction. He was born into the London respectable poor, but rose to
count royals amongst his friends. He was at constant odds with his superiors in The East
India Company, yet on their behalf he founded Singapore. Three of his and Sophia’s children
died in Sumatra. When the grieving parents were sailing home to England, their ship sank,
and they lost all their possessions. Back in London, Raffles was nearly bankrupted through
a combination of the East India Company’s meanness, and the effect on his investments of
the financial panic of 1825. Before he died he helped found London Zoo and his statue is in
Westminster Abbey.
Genre: ISBNs: Fiction / Historical
9789814625272 (pb) / 9789814625289 (e)
Bamboo Heart
Bamboo Road
ISBNs: ISBNs: 9789814423731 (pb)
9789814423748 (e)
BEST FICTION PUBLISHED IN ASIA
Book of the Lunar Year (2015),
Asian Books Blog
9789814625258 (pb)
9789814625265 (e)
4 FICTION (new & forthcoming)
(new & forthcoming) FICTION 5
Singapore Yellow (Detective Hawksworth Trilogy, Vol. 2)
The Heart Radical
Singapore/Malaya, 1892: Chief Detective Inspector David Hawksworth, orphaned, middleaged and gimlet-eyed, travels to Malacca to meet a mysterious woman who claims his mother
is alive, only to find a British Resident has been brutally murdered and a Singapore police
expedition has vanished in the jungle. Children are being snatched from villages, sinister
commercial syndicates are fighting over virgin resources, and a seductive vampiric pontianak
is on the loose. When native kids start turning up butchered in Singapore, Hawksworth finds
himself increasingly isolated as the evidence points to the involvement of the colonial elite.
Bringing justice to the powerful perpetrators while saving his own skin and uncovering the
secrets of his dark past pushes the detective past the brink in this thrilling sequel to Singapore
Black.
Told primarily through the captivating voice of a young girl awakening to a world at war,
The Heart Radical is the stunning new novel from the author of the bestselling Amber Road.
William L. Gibson
Boyd Anderson
Esteemed human rights lawyer Su-Lin Tan barely recognises Professor Paris Thumboo when
he delivers a history lecture in London. For the last time she saw him was in a crowded
Malayan courtroom more than half a century ago, during the trial that would change her
life …
It’s 1951 and Malaya is in the grip of The Emergency between the government forces and
communist rebels. Yet eight-year-old Su-Lin lives in relative ignorance of the chaos raging
around her. That is until she shadows her beloved father, esteemed defence barrister K. C.
Tan, as he embarks on a controversial new case – and into Su-Lin’s life walks war hero Dr
Anna Thumboo, her son Paris and her lover, Toh Kei, the enigmatic leader of the jungle
rebels. For Anna and Toh Kei, the trial is a matter of life and death. For Su-Lin it’s the start
of a journey of discovery – about love and sacrifice, about truth and lies, and about fighting
for what you believe in, whatever the cost …
Singapore Yellow is volume two in the 19th-century Detective Hawksworth Trilogy set in
Singapore and Malaya that includes Singapore Black and Singapore Red.
9789814423656 (pb) / 9789814423663 (e)
Genre: ISBNs: ALSO IN THIS SERIES
Fiction / Historical
9789814625159 (pb) / 9789814625166 (e)
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Singapore Black (Vol. 1)
Singapore Red (Vol. 3)
Amber Road
ISBNs: ISBNs: It’s 1941 and seventeen-year-old Victoria Khoo, daughter of a wealthy family of Straits Chinese, lives in
luxury in colonial Singapore. Her carefree days are spent fantasising about marrying Sebastian Boustead,
scion of a great British merchant family, and becoming mistress of his imposing mansion on Amber Road. Not
even Sebastian’s arrival from London with his new fiancée, Elizabeth Nightingale, can dampen her dreams …
9789814423403 (pb)
9789814423410 (e)
9789814423670 (pb)
9789814423687 (e)
Then the war reaches Asia. First Malaya falls to the Japanese then ‘Fortress Singapore’ abruptly surrenders. As
the inhabitants are deserted by Britain, Victoria is forced to protect both her family and her rival, Elizabeth,
from the cruelty of the occupation. With intrigue, romance and suspense, Amber Road tells an epic story of
one woman’s indomitable spirit against the backdrop of a world at war.
Genre: ISBN: Fiction / Historical
9789814423144 (pb)
The Flame Tree
The Scarlet Macaw
Jasmine Lian left Malaysia behind when she was eighteen and won a place at Oxford. Since
then she’s led a golden life: youngest ever partner in one of the most prestigious law firms in
London, poised for success in every area. Then one of her clients, construction firm Jordan
Cardale, bids for the grandest, most visionary project in Asia: the futuristic Titiwangsa
University, a complete town and campus in the rainforest-covered hills of Malaysia. Jordan
Cardale wants to win that contract. By any means necessary. Jasmine, already struggling
with the magnetic hold of her native Malaysia, is forced to choose between old life and new,
East and West, right and wrong. The Flame Tree offers a vivid snapshot of a fast-developing
Malaysia on the cusp of the new millennium, of moral choices and a woman’s search for her
cultural identity.
Two entwined mysteries unfold in two time periods in Singapore: one in the present, the
other in the 1920s. Artist Maris Cousins has lived in Singapore for four years, but the sudden
death of her mentor, Orchard Road gallery owner Peter Stone, causes her to stop painting
and leave Singapore to reconnect with her family in Canada. There she becomes immersed in
the fictional stories of love and betrayal from Singapore’s past in first editions left to her by
Stone, written by the famous early 20th-century author E. Sutcliffe Moresby. Drawn back to
Singapore and the gallery, she searches for answers to the mystery of three people—a writer,
his young wife and their baby—who seem to be linked to Stone. But along the way Maris
becomes caught up in circumstances involving smuggling and possibly murder.
Genre: ISBNs: Genre: ISBNs: Yang-May Ooi
Fiction / Romantic Thriller
9789814423908 (pb) / 9789814423915 (e)
‘an accomplished novel that brings idealism and passion to bear
in the heat of the Malaysian rainforest’
Tatler, UK
S.P. Hozy
9789814423755 (pb) / 9789814423762 (e)
“Hozy’s luscious prose makes this literary stand-alone a memorable read”
Library Journal, USA
“A magnificent combination of two stories a century apart”
Publishers Weekly, USA
#AFICTION
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NEW FICTION
(new & forthcoming)
(new & forthcoming) FICTION 7
The Eight Curious Cases of Inspector Zhang
Iban Journey (Vol. 2)
Crimes are few and far between in the city-state of Singapore and the crimes that do occur
are usually solved quickly and efficiently. But when there’s a crime that has the police baffled,
it’s Inspector Zhang that they turn to. He is one of the best detectives on the force. He is also
a fan of detective fiction, and he loves nothing more more than putting his observational
skills to the test. From locked-room mysteries to disappearing drugs and murders disguised
as suicide, Inspector Zhang is able to draw on his experience as a detective along with tricks
he has learned from the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. Assisted by
the inexperienced Sergeant Lee, Inspector Zhang solves brain-teasing mysteries in the style of
Sherlock Holmes and Poirot but with a modern twist. See if you can solve the crimes before
the inspector — the clues are there!
Though his father, Bujang, loves him, Nuing runs away from home because the people of
the longhouse reject him. Following a failed war expedition, Bunsu Jugam, the spirit of the
youngest sun bear, rescues Nuing and brings him into the invisible world where he tells him
that Bujang has been kidnapped by K’lansat demons. The python spirit of his father’s trophy
head spits on Nuing and causes his skin to burn and swell until he looks like a deformed
rhinocerous. He manages to rescue his father and on their return they are attacked by four
men. Bujang kills one, and Nuing three. When the thick skin finally comes off and the people
learns that their hero is Nuing, they grudgingly accepts him back, believing that the curse of
his birth is nullified by the power of the three heads he took.
Stephen Leather
Genre: ISBNs: Golda Mowe
Iban Journey is volume two in this unique series of fantasy fiction — that includes Iban
Dream — in which author Golda Mowe, herself an Iban from Borneo, uses real beliefs,
taboos and terminology of the Iban (a longhouse-dwelling indigenous group of people from
Borneo who, until very recently, were renowned for practising headhunting) to weave epic
tales of good versus evil.
Fiction / Detective
9789814625005 (pb) / 9789814625012 (e)
‘Stephen Leather should be nestling in your bookshelves between
Frederick Forsyth and Jack Higgins’ Daily Mail, UK
The Life of a Banana
PP Wong
Xing Li is what some Chinese people call a banana – yellow on the outside and white on the
inside. Although born and raised in London, she never feels like she fits in. When her mother
dies, she moves with her older brother to live with venomous Grandma, strange Uncle Ho
and Hollywood actress Auntie Mei. Her only friend is Jay – a mixed raced Jamaican boy
with a passion for classical music. Then Xing Li’s life takes an even harsher turn: the school
bullying escalates and her uncle requests she assist him in an unthinkable favour. Her happy
childhood becomes a distant memory as her new life is infiltrated with the harsh reality
of being an ethnic minority. Consumed by secrets, violence and confusing family relations,
Xing Li tries to find hope wherever she can. In order to find her own identity, she must first
discover what it means to be both Chinese and British.
Genre: ISBNs: Fiction
9789814625036 (pb) / 9789814625043 (e)
Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015
‘Revealing in its exploration of cultural and generational conflicts’ The Guardian, UK
‘Refreshingly distinct’ The Daily Mail, UK
‘Bursting with original and exciting flavours’ The Independent, UK
Genre: ISBNs: Fiction / Fantasy
9789814625210 (pb) / 9789814625227 (e)
ALSO IN THIS SERIES
Iban Dream (Vol. 1)
Orphaned as a young boy in the rainforests of Borneo, Bujang is brought up by a family of orangutans, but
his adult future has already been decided for him by Sengalang Burong, the Iban warpath god. On reaching
adulthood, Bujang must leave his ape family and serve the warpath god as a warrior and a headhunter.
Having survived his first assignment — to kill an ill-tempered demon in the form of a ferocious wild boar —
subsequent adventures see Bujang converse with gods, shamans, animal spirits and with the nomadic people
of Borneo as he battles evil spirits and demons to preserve the safety of those he holds dear to him. But
Bujang’s greatest test is still to come and he must rally a large headhunting expedition to free his captured wife
and those of his fellow villagers.
ISBNs: 9789814423120 (pb) / 9789814358804 (e)
‘This is exactly the book I’ve been waiting for – a fantasy novel that draws on the legends of our land’
The Star, Malaysia
The Expat
Written in Black
Dutch expat Julia de Rijck uses husband Paul’s telescope to spy on Dave across the pool
in their luxury Singapore condominium. Despite their mutual attraction there is something
about the man that makes Julia uneasy. When Dave’s maid, Angelica, dies in suspicious
circumstances, Julia gets pulled into a world of secrets and discovers a less visible Singapore
of exploitation and prostitution.
A darkly humorous coming-of-age novel set in Brunei on the island of Borneo, Written in
Black offers a snapshot of a few days in the life of ten-year-old Jonathan Lee, attending the
funeral of his Ah Kong, or grandfather, and still reeling from the drama of his mother leaving
for Australia and his brother getting kicked out of the house and joining a rock band.
Patricia Snel
KH Lim
The Expat is a gripping story of greed, love, infidelity and crime in Singapore.
Genre: ISBNs: Fiction / Thriller
9789814423823 (pb) / 9789814423830 (e)
‘You’ll read this steamy new thriller in one go’
De Telegraaf, Holland
‘An exciting novel in which the Asian sex industry and human trafficking are central’
Crimezone
Annoyed at being the brunt of his father’s pent-up anger, Jonathan escapes his grandfather’s
wake in an empty coffin and embarks on a journey through the backwaters of Brunei to bring
his disowned brother back for the funeral and to learn the truth about his absent mother. On
a quest that takes him across the little-known Sultanate, past gangs of glue-sniffing poklans
(Brunei’s teenage delinquents), cursed houses and weird shopkeepers, Jonathan discovers
adventure, courage, friendship and, finally, himself.
Genre: ISBNs: Fiction / Young Adult
9789814423977 (pb) / 9789814423984 (e)
8 FICTION
FICTION 9
The Red Thread
(The Straits Quartet, Vol. 1)
Dawn Farnham
Young, beautiful and wealthy, widow
Charlotte Macleod leaves Batavia in
the 1850s and returns to Singapore
for the English education of her two
young sons. She is determined not to
be drawn back into a secret affair with
Zhen, the married Chinese merchant,
triad-member and man she loves who
is, unbeknownst to him, the father
of her eldest son, Alex. Charlotte is
convinced she can find happiness in a respectable marriage with
the attractive but reticent Captain Maitland. But when murder
and death strike, Singapore erupts in the violence of triad wars and
Zhen’s growing affection for Alex gives cause for alarm, she must
make some hard decisions, for her children and herself.
Genre: ISBNs: Genre: ISBNs: Historical Fiction / Romance
9789814423618 (pb) / 9789814358392 (e)
A Monsoon Feast is an anthology of
literary short stories by renowned
writers from Kerala and Singapore.
The collection, featuring a foreword by
author and poet Professor Kirpal Singh,
includes stories by well-known author
Shashi
Tharoor,
Commonwealth
Writers’ Prize-winning author of 12
books, including The Great Indian
Novel, and inaugural Singapore
Literature Prize winner and popular
author Suchen Christine Lim.
Big Wall Newspaper by Suchen Christine Lim
Death of a Schoolmaster by Shashi Tharoor
Because I Tell by Felix Cheong
A Life Elsewhere by Jaishree Misra
Patchwork by O Thiam Chin
In Memory of Kaya Toast by Anjali Menon
Taste by Verena Tay
Genre: ISBNs: The Shallow Seas
Dawn Farnham
The English Concubine
Dawn Farnham
Charlotte Macleod is nineteen,
pregnant, and alone in 1842. She is
fleeing a scandalous liaison with her
married Chinese lover, a liaison which
would bring ruin on him, herself, and
her brother, Robert, the police chief
of Singapore. When Tigran Manouk,
the richest merchant in Batavia,
capital of the Dutch East Indies, asks
for her hand in marriage, the choice
is no choice. Through loss and pain,
Charlotte will find a way to make a life with a man she does not love
in a town she does not understand. Until she returns to Singapore, to
the town where the man she loves waits for her, to face the hardest
decision of her life.
In the final volume of the The Straits
Quartet, Charlotte’s love affair with
Zhen, wealthy Chinese merchant, is
an open scandal. Singapore in 1860
is a vice-ridden town filled “with
the dregs of humanity from two
continents”. Opium makes up half of
the British Empire’s trade in the East
and, from Singapore, the Chinese
triads control its distribution, with
turf wars fought on the streets of
Chinatown. The colonial government, impoverished and ineffectual,
can do nothing about it. Only the Chinese godfather, the Lord of the
Kongsi, has that power through his control of the coolie, prostitute
and opium trade.
Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
ISBNs: 9789814423601 (pb) / 9789814358316 (e)
Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
ISBNs: 9789814423625 (pb) / 9789814423236 (e)
SPECIAL EDITION
BOX SET
ISBN: Shelve together to construct a street of shophouses
9789814423632
The Flight of the Swans
Verena Tay
Dawn Farnham
Like Chinese silk, The Red Thread is,
by turns, gentle and strong, exploring
a love that breaks through the divide
of race and culture, a love that is
both deeply physical and a marriage
of souls. Set against the backdrop of
1830s Singapore where piracy, crime,
triads and tigers are commonplace,
this cultural romance follows the
struggle of two lovers: Zhen, once the
lowliest of Chinese coolies and triad member, later chosen to marry
into a Peranakan family of Baba Chinese merchants; and Charlotte,
an 18-year-old Scots girl and sister of Singapore’s Head of Police.
Two cultures bound together by the invisible threads of fate yet
separated by cultural diversity.
Historical Fiction / Romance
9789814423595 (pb) / 9789814358408 (e)
A Monsoon Feast
The Hills of Singapore
D. Devika Bai
A rich and fascinating family saga set
in India. Cursed, and with blood on his
hands, Captain Ramdas Rao Bhonsle
is forced to flee Killa Fort, which has
fallen to the British. A strange flight
of swans signals his flight from Killa;
a flight that will drive Ramdas and
his family into further adversity. But
great adversity spawns great dreams.
Ramdas dreams of ousting the British
from his motherland. His sons, the
handsome and irascible Nilkanth
and the plain and romantic Madhav dream of possessing the same
girl, Tara Bai, who is the most beautiful courtesan in the land. And
Ramdas’ granddaughter, blind Arundhati, dreams only of seeing
one day. Woven into this tapestry is a lone white swan inextricably
linked to the ebb and flow of the Bhonsles’ fortunes as they flee
across India to Malaya.
Genre: ISBNs: Fiction / Short Stories / Literary
9789814358835 (pb) / 9789814358842 (e)
Fiction / Literary
9789814423113 (pb) / 9789814423267 (e)
‘New voice of Malaysian fiction’
TODAY newspaper, Singapore
Crime Scene Asia (Vol.1)
Singapore Noir
Richard Lord (Editor)
Volume 1 of Crime Scene Asia features
nine delectably horrid crimes that take
readers on a chilling trip through the
dark underbelly of contemporary Asia
from Vietnam down through Thailand
to Malaysia and Singapore and then,
after a frightening swing into the
Philippines, on to India. Crime, like so
many other things, has a local flavour.
This volume serves up the unique
flavour of crime in six of Asia’s most
dynamic and fascinating lands, written
by nine seasoned crime writers based throughout the region. The
pieces in this crime anthology may be fiction, but they read like the
more attention-grabbing stories seen frequently in newspapers across
Asia.
Featuring authors:
Charlson Ong
Jim Algie
D. Biswas
Dawn Farnham
William L. Gibson
Abha Iyengar
Richard Lord
Elka Ray
Roger Vickery
Genre: ISBNs: Fiction / Crime Anthology
9789814423335 (pb) / 9789814423342 (e)
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (Editor)
Beneath Singapore’s sparkling veneer
is a country teeming with shadows.
Explore the city-state’s forgotten back
alleys, red-light districts, kelongs and
gambling dens with 14 illustrious
writers, three of them Singapore
Literature Prize winners. This exciting
anthology — compiled by US-based
Singaporean author Cheryl Lu-Lien
Tan and part of the award-winning
Noir series developed by Akashic
Books in New York — promises to
uncover a side of Singapore rarely explored in Western literature.
Featuring authors:
Colin Goh
Donald Tee Quee Ho
Philip Jeyaretnam
Colin Cheong
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Monica Bhide
S.J. Rozan
Lawrence Osborne
Suchen Christine Lim
Ovidia Yu
Damon Chua
Johann S. Lee
Dave Chua
Nury Vittachi
Genre: ISBN: Fiction / Crime Anthology
9789814423694 (pb)
10 FICTION
FICTION 11
Best of Singapore Erotica
In this first-ever compendium of
erotic writing from Singapore, we
are presented with a selection of
short stories, poetry and narrative
nonfiction that is as hot and steamy
as the city-state itself. Best of
Singapore Erotica is a timely addition
to the small but growing body of
contemporary Asian erotic literature
and successfully showcases the best
writing from Singapore. Now in it’s
3rd printrun!
Genre: Erotica / Short Stories
ISBN: 9789810553012
‘Singapore erotica? Yes, such a thing exists’
Sunday Times, Singapore
Included in this volume are 19 stories
from well-known authors in Indonesia,
Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and
the Philippines. Traipsing through
the pages of this steamy collection is
a colourful cavalcade of adventurers,
maids,
masseurs,
prostitutes,
transsexuals, seducers and seducees
as well as business executives on the
make. You’ll even meet a master baker
who reveals the deeply erotic secrets of prata-making. This book
proves that erotic literature can stand out as both eroticism and
literature. The 19 stories presented here examine the topic from
varied angles, but they all celebrate the sensual in the sure voice of
first-rate writing.
Genre: ISBNs: Fiction / Pulp
9789814423847 (pb) / 9789814423854 (e)
Nazi Goreng is a disturbing story
of one young Malay man’s comingof-age in the big city and offers
a stunning portrait of the racial
tensions, crime and corruption that
pervade Malaysian society. In this
intense and gripping debut, Malaysiabased writer Marco Ferrarese dishes
up a powerful portrayal of displaced
urban Malay life.
9789814423359 (pb) / 9789814423366 (e)
9789810823818 (pb) / 9789814358316 (e)
Young, western and single, Sara
arrives in Singapore and soon
becomes swept up in the exotic city,
mesmerized by its glitter and glamour
and seduced by promises of a career,
wealth and success. However, a
chance encounter followed by a
charged love affair with a charismatic
Chinese Singaporean hotelier, who
just happens to be married, draws
Sara into an unexpected inward
journey that forces her to confront her
past and contemplate the difference between love and infatuation.
As with Eat, Pray, Love, popular Australian author Judy Chapman
writes about finding soul and spirituality in unexpected places, and
having the courage to follow the truth wherever that may lead.
Genre: ISBNs: Fiction / Romance
9789814423380 (pb) / 9789814423397 (e)
A mother finds out her son is gay; a
daughter finds out her two mothers
are lesbians; and a niece stumbles
upon the body of her dead uncle
dressed in his wife’s sarong kebaya.
The Lies that Build A Marriage,
Singapore-literature-prize-winning
author Suchen Christine Lim’s short
stories of the unsung, unsaid and
uncelebrated in Singapore, delve
beneath the sunlit island’s prosperity
and coded decorum and her characters chip away prejudice and
sculpt it into acceptance of the other.
Genre: ISBNs: Fiction / Short Stories
9789810587130 (pb) / 9789814358583 (e)
Rogue Raider is the adventure story of
how one ship, the Emden, tied up the
navies of four nations during WWI and
how one man, Captain Lauterbach,
eluded their agents in a desperate yet
hilarious attempt to regain his native
land. It is fictionalised history but a true history that was deliberately
suppressed by the authorities of the time as too embarrassing and
dangerous to be known. Revealed here, it brings vividly to life the
Southeast Asia of the period, its sights, its sounds and its rich mix of
peoples. And through it an unwilling participant in the war becomes
an accidental hero.
The Devil’s Garden
It is 1942 and Singapore is Syonanto,
part of the Japanese Empire, where
violence and starvation stalk the streets
but in the Singapore Botanic Gardens
a bizarre tranquillity reigns between
warring nations and even love awakes
as old identities melt away in the heady
atmosphere of the Orchid House.
From its unique perspective and with a
mixture of humour and romance, The
Devil’s Garden pictures a formative
moment in the emergence of Singapore,
where loyalties are less secure than those of the official histories and
truth is anything but simple.
9789814358422 (pb) / 9789814358439 (e)
BEST COVER DESIGN (SBPA Book Awards 2012, Singapore)
Han Suyin
First published in 1956, Han
Suyin’s magnificent novel about the
Emergency Period in Malaya and
Singapore evokes all the colour and
conflict of a land where, in the late
1940s and early 50s, a bitter guerrilla
war was fought between communist
terrorists in the Malayan jungles and
British armed forces. With infinite
sharpness and feeling, she writes about
the intertwining lives of people caught
up in the clash of powerful forces.
Genre: ISBN: A Woman of Bangkok
Dawn Farnham
9789814423083 (pb) / 9789814423090 (e)
Fiction
9789814423106
‘Moving and beautifully described’ Times Literary Supplement, UK
‘Considerable sensibility and penetration’ The Sunday Times, UK
‘Profoundly moving’ The Daily Telegraph, UK
A Crowd of Twisted Things
In May 1950, Eurasian Annie Collins
returns to Singapore seeking her lost
baby. As the time bomb ticks and
Annie unravels the threads of her
quest into increasingly dangerous
territory, she finds strange recollections
intruding, ones that have nothing to do
with her own memories of her wartime
experiences: disturbing visions and
dreams which force her to doubt not
just her past life, but her whole idea of
who she truly is and even to question
the search itself. A Crowd of Twisted Things is at once a lament for
the loss and damage of war, an unravelling mystery and a journey
into suppressed memory and the nature of self-delusion.
9789814423137 (pb) / 9789814358262 (e)
And The Rain My Drink
Nigel Barley
The Lies That Build
a Marriage
Suchen Christine Lim
Nigel Barley
Genre: ISBNs: Judy Chapman
Nazi Goreng
Young • Malay • Fanatic •
Skinheads
Marco Ferrarese
In the 1920s and 30s, Walter Spies
— ethnographer, choreographer, film
maker, natural historian and painter
— transformed the perception of
Bali from that of a remote island to
become the site for Western fantasies
about Paradise and it underwent an
influx of foreign visitors. The rich
and famous flocked to Spies’ house in
Ubud, incuding Charlie Chaplin and
Noel Coward. Island of Demons is a
fascinating historical novel that offers
a unique insight into that complex and multi-hued world that was so
soon to be swept away, exploring both its ideas and the larger than
life characters that inhabited it.
My Singapore Lover
Ewe Paik Leong
Rogue Raider:
The Tale of Captain
Lauterbach, the Singapore
Mutiny and the audacious
Battle of Penang
Nigel Barley
Genre: Erotica / Short Stories
ISBN: 9789810854362
A China Doll in KL
When night falls in Kuala Lumpur,
the pleasure-seekers come out. They
hunger for the sleaziest indulgences
the city has to offer. And they know
the China dolls will give them what
they want. Young and ambitious,
Meisu has just arrived in KL, but she’s
already the China doll whom all the
men want to play with. But it’s not
long before she catches the eye of a
sinister triad godfather. As she fights
her way out of his clutches and uses her wits to survive in a world
of easy sex, lies, deceit and sadistic customers, she finds herself
stumbling through a passionate but trouble-laden love affair with
an alcoholic artist.
Island of Demons
Best of Southeast Asian
Erotica
Jack Reynolds
Set against a beautifully observed
Thailand of the 1950s, this is the story
of a young Englishman’s infatuation
with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai,
who all Bangkok knows as The White
Leopard. Acknowledged today as one
of the most memorable novels about
Thailand, A Woman of Bangkok was
first published to critical acclaim in
London and New York in the 1950s
and is a classic of Bangkok fiction.
9789810854300 (pb) / 9789814358620 (e)
‘Among the ten finest novels written about Asia’
The Asian Wall Street Journal
12 FICTION
(kid’s and YA) FICTION 13
Private Dancer
Bangkok Bob
and the Missing Mormon
Stephen Leather
Pete, a young travel writer, wanders
into a Bangkok bar and meets the
love of his life. Pete thinks that Joy
is the girl of his dreams: young,
stunningly pretty, and one of the topearning go-go dancers in Nana Plaza.
What follows is a roller-coaster ride
of sex, drugs, lies and murder, as Pete
discovers that his very own private
dancer is not all that she claims to
be. And that far from being the girl
of his dreams, Joy is his own personal
nightmare. Now in it’s 9th printrun.
Genre: ISBN: Fiction / Thriller
9789810539160
Monkey Magic (Vols. 1–3)
Grant S. Clark
Stephen Leather
The Curse of Mukada (Vol. 1)
What on earth is causing the orangutans of Mukada Nature Reserve
to fall sick and head to the coast? Romy Alexander—on a visit
to Borneo with her scientist father—isn’t convinced by the park
warden’s explanation that overcrowding is the cause of the problem.
The 11-year-old soon discovers she has acquired extraordinary
powers to investigate the mystery that brings her face to face
with dark forces threatening the creatures of the rainforest. In
a captivating and moving adventure, Romy comes to realise that
she alone can help break a curse that has brought suffering to
generations of orangutans.
Long-term Bangkok resident and
former New Orleans cop Bob
Turtledove has a knack for getting
people out of difficult situations. So
when a young man from Utah goes
missing in Bangkok, his parents are
soon knocking on Bob’s door asking
for help. But what starts out as a
simple missing person case takes a
deadly turn as Bangkok Bob’s search
for the missing Mormon brings him up against Russian gangsters,
hired killers, corrupt cops and kickboxing thugs. And he learns that
even in the Land of Smiles, people can have murder on their minds.
Genre: ISBN: Genre: Fiction / 8-12 yrs
Fiction / Thriller
9789810877767
ISBNs: 9789814423649 (Vol. 1)
9789810861322 (Vol. 2)
9789814423250 (Vol. 3)
The Great Wall Mystery (Vol. 2)
Distraught following a shocking turn of events in Borneo, Romy
Alexander arrives in China to witess a wonderful and most unusual
gathering on the Great Wall. In Volume 2 of the Magic Magic series,
the 11-year-old embarks on another nocturnal adventure and is
drawn into a mystery that soon turns sinister.
The Ghostly Thieves of New York (Vol. 3)
Death in the Kingdom
Andrew Grant
British agent Daniel Swann fled
Thailand after murdering the son of the
Kingdom’s top underworld boss. Now
he is back, ordered by his government
to recover a small black box from the
bottom of the Andaman Sea. Business
as usual, he doesn’t ask questions. But
as his friends are beheaded one by
one and he is pursued by CIA agents,
Swann realises his mission has become
personal. Someone wants him dead.
9789810584924 (pb) / 9789814358217 (e)
Andrew Grant
Former British agent Daniel Swann
is living in semi-retirement in Hong
Kong when he receives a call for help
from his old friend Thai drug lord
Sami Somsak. Sami’s stepbrother
and his family have been murdered,
and Sami’s brainchild, the $6-billion
Intella Island project, Singapore’s
largest offshore construction, is in
jeopardy. When Swann attempts to
retrieve vital evidence hidden in Fort
Siloso, a bloody gun battle erupts on Sentosa island, and staid, quiet
Singapore becomes a raging battlefield.
Genre: ISBNs: Year of the Tiger
9789814358897 (pb) / 9789814358903 (e)
Fiction / Thriller
9789810592257 (pb) / 9789814358231 (e)
Crime Scene: Singapore:
The Best of Singapore
Crime Fiction
David Miller
A group of foreign workers digging a
tunnel under the Padang in presentday Singapore stumbles across a
WWII treasure vault and inadvertently
triggers a biological booby trap. An
unknown strain of anthrax is released,
threatening a global holocaust. It is up
to Assistant Superintendent Gerald
Loh of the Singapore Police Force
to decipher a cryptic clue left behind
with the loot to halt this deadly
plague. Year of the Tiger takes readers
on a roller-coaster journey of political wrangling, murky history
and secret organisations to discover the elusive cure for a seemingly
unstoppable pandemic.
Romy Alexander thinks she is on a break from Monkey Magic as
she leaves the forests of Asia for the urban jungle of New York City.
However, following a series of bizarre and unexplained burglaries in
Manhattan’s museums and galleries, she soon discovers there is no
escaping her strange and mystical power. Follow 11-year-old Romy
in this third instalment of Monkey Magic.
Singapore Sling Shot
As the Singapore police frequently
remind us: ‘low crime does not mean
no crime’. But the writers in this
book remind us that low crime can
definitely mean exciting, imaginative
crime. Pranav Joshi shows how
cross-border crime can spur locally
produced crime, while local literary
guru Chris Mooney-Singh looks at
how brutal crime has moved into the realm of social networking.
Also featured are Singapore Literature Prize winner Ng Yi-Sheng,
leading UK crime writer Stephen Leather and actress-writer-radio
personality Carolyn Camoens.
9789810854379 (pb) / 9789814358590 (e)
Asian Spine Chillers (Vols. 1–4)
Andrew Lee
Volumes 1 to 4 of Asian Spine Chillers by Andrew Lee feature
fantastic spooky stories set in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Thailand, Philippines and Hong Kong as well as letters to the author
from terrified readers sharing their supernatural experiences. Plus,
bring this print book to life with augmented reality by using your
smartphone or tablet and the free Monsoon Books app (for iOS and
Android) and watch as a hidden story is retold in 3D animation and
video before your eyes!
Genre: ISBNs: Fiction / Horror (YA)
9789814423939 (Vol. 1) / 9789814423946 (Vol. 2)
9789814423953 (Vol. 3) / 9789814423960 (Vol. 4)
Be amazed as 3D animation pops out from the print books when
viewed through a tablet or smartphone using Monsoon’s free
augmented reality app.
(ebooks) FICTION 15
14 FICTION (ebooks)
Robozonic
Ellie Belly
Caline Tan
Genre:
ISBNs:
7-10 yrs
Into the Goal
Squirrel Away
Dragonfly Rescue
Fishy Tales
Save the Flowers
Eliza Teoh
Genre:
9789814423069
9789814423076
9789814423304
9789814423496
9789814423489
7-10 yrs
Follow that Bird
Cat’s Out of the Bag
Turtle Trouble
A Little Bit Batty
Huffy Puffy Panda
Mousey Mahem
Pawful Peril
Extraordinary Losers
Jessica Alejandro
Genre: 9-12 yrs
Operations Pants on Fire
9789814423526
Vandal Scandal
9789814423533
Captive in the Dark
9789814423816
Singapore Horror
Stories
Loo Si Fer
Genre:
Horror / YA
Vol.1 9789814358514
Vol.2 9789814358521
Vol.3 9789814358538
Vol.4 9789814358545
Vol.5 9789814358552
Vol.6 9789814358569
Vol.7 9789814358576
Run
Gabby Tye
ISBN: 9789814423519
Fossil Finders
Andy Chua
ISBN: 9789814625098
One
Tan Ter Cheah
ISBN: 9789814625104
9789814358972
9789814423281
9789814423045
9789814423168
9789814423298
9789814423793
9789814625074
(ebooks) FICTION 17
16 FICTION (ebooks)
The Strangler’s Waltz
(Vienna Noir Quartet, Vol.1)
Richard Lord
1913 Vienna is one of the world’s
most cultured and vibrant cities, a
city devoted to the grand pursuit of
life’s pleasures. But the city is shaken
when a vicious serial killer starts a
reign of terror. Before long, residents
of Vienna are terrified that their city
has spawned its own Jack the Ripper.
Under pressure from politicians, an
unforgiving press corps and their
superiors in the police department,
detectives Stebbel and Dörfner must finally call upon the skills of two
real-life figures living and working in Vienna at the time: Sigmund
Freud, the most famous psychiatrist in the world; and another even
more unlikely hero, a young artist known to associates as Adolf,
toiling in obscurity but who will later achieve even greater fame than
Freud – albeit in afield other than art.
Genre: Historical Fiction
ISBN: 9789814423373
The Devil’s Will Sonata
(Vienna Noir Quartet, Vol.2)
The scene: Vienna, early 1919. Having lost not only the Great War,
but also its once sprawling empire, Austria has been reduced to
a small, land-locked country. The blow to the national psyche is
immense. But one thing hasn’t changed: at the Vienna Police Force,
Inspectors Dörfner and Stebbel are still Vienna’s most respected
detectives, relied on to solve the city’s most difficult cases. A man
is found in the Vienna Woods, his throat slashed in a strange,
deliberate design. Inspector Stebbel recalls an identical design on
a murder victim several months earlier. Does Vienna have another
serial murderer on its hands? As Dörfner and Stebbel pursue the few
leads they have, they find themselves drawn ever deeper into the
labyrinths of Vienna’s occult underworld. Were the two murders a
part of some bizarre occult ritual … or was there some even more
sinister rationale behind them? Sigmund Freud is again called upon
to lend his expertise to the investigations, and key appearances
are also made by Viennese notables Gustav Mahler and Arthur
Schnitzler. This time, the two star detectives will need help from all
quarters to crack this most baffling of cases.
Nigel Hogge
In Volume 1 of the Max Krueger
Adventure series, Max Krueger, tough
ex-British Army officer and a former
mercenary from the jungles of Africa
is now operating his tugboat from the
steamy wharves of Manaha, capital
city of the turbulent South-East Asian
island nation of Verubia. Hired to
haul supplies to the remote location
of director Marcus von Kleist’s latest
movie-in-the-making, he discovers
a sinister plot to flood Verubia with
high-grade cocaine. It’s a sexy, sultry, sweltering tale of adventure
that’s … “Hotter than Hell!”
Adventure series, the war has been
over for half a century, but neoNazi Ernst Mueller, son of SS
Obersturmbannfuher Karl Mueller,
knows where four million dollars
worth of Japanese war booty is hidden
in the savage mountains of the remote
island of Alipoo in southern Verubia.
With boat captain and tough former
mercenary Max Krueger, he plans to
find the treasure, but they have no idea
of what – and who – is waiting for them on the perilous journey
south.
Genre: ISBN: Genre: ISBN: Fiction / Adventure
9789814358477
Fiction / Adventure
9789814358484
ISBN: 9789814625241
Lucifer Rising
The Devil’s Pope
Andrew Hicks
It’s the year 999 and as the first
millennium draws to a close many
people throughout Europe are
convinced that the world is going
to end. In the midst of all this, a
mysterious figure appears in northern
Italy, giving rousing sermons all
along his trip to Rome. This strange
but charismatic figure is a worker
of seemingly miraculous cures.
Appearing first in northern Italy,
he enlists an army of devotees who
follow him on his mission to Rome, the heart of the Christian
world at that time. Before long, the mission of this strange holy man
intertwines with the plans of 19-year-old Emperor Otto III to build
the greatest empire the West has ever seen and the devoted pope
who desperately seeks to reform and re-sanctify the Church that is
the centre of his life.
Adventure series, Max Krueger’s
girlfriend has disappeared, and the
tough ex-mercenary is angry. Very
angry. What Max and Manaha’s crafty
Chief of Police, Colonel ‘Diablo’
Fernandez, don’t know is that the
beautiful woman has fallen into the
hands of a fiendish religious sex cult…
and the dreaded grips of the Yakuza,
the centuries old Japanese Mafia,
who have come to the turbulent South-East Asian island nation of
Verubia to expand their empire and feed their insatiable appetite for
helpless, delectable young women.
Genre: ISBN: Fiction / Adventure
9789814358491
ISBN: 9789814358705
Disorder
Best of Asian Erotica
Juan Carlos Girauta
Disorder. Chaos. But a chaos with its own logic. The protagonist of this noir
novella is Juan Barcelona, who shares his surname with his native city. A PhD
in Physics, he discovers through mental illness and an obsession with Sigmund
Freud that murder is not only a social disorder but an irreversible process.
Killing belongs to thermodynamics. And entropy shall be the last stop in an
analytical trip to the city of Barcelona. Disorder is the English translation of
El desorden, an acclaimed work of contemporary Spanish urban fiction from
Barcelona native Juan Carlos Girauta.
Genre:
Erotica / Short Stories
Genre: ISBN: Fiction / Thriller
9789814358828 (English) / 9789814358996 (Spanish)
Voyage of the Demon
Nigel Hogge
Adrian Lumenti
When travellers Ben and Emma
come to blows on the idyllic Thai
island of Koh Samet, it’s not long
before Ben falls for Fon, a flirtatious
but enigmatic beach masseuse, and
is forced to come to terms with the
darker side of tourism in Thailand.
As Ben parties on the beaches with
travellers from around the world and
experiences the raunchy nightlife of
Bangkok, he is drawn deeper into the
harsh reality of his island paradise.
The closer he is to Fon, the sparkling Thai girl of his dreams, the
more he realizes what it means to be truly poor and what drives
farmers’ daughters away from their homes to sell their bodies in the
bars of Bangkok.
Fiction
9789814358248
In the Shadow of the Devil
Nigel Hogge
Richard Lord
Thai Girl
Genre: ISBN: Hotter than Hades
ISBNs:
Vol.1 9789814358156
Vol.2 9789814358187
Vol.3 9789814423243
Nigel Hogge
Adventure series, Max Krueger, tough
ex-British Army officer and former
mercenary from the jungles of Africa
is once again operating his tugboat
from the steamy wharves of Manaha,
capital city of the turbulent South
East island national of Verubia. Hired
to hunt down a fearsome Indonesian
pirate called Bandok Raya, he gathers
and trains an elite mercenary group.
Max’s old friend Pierre Lafayette has returned to Manaha and is
conducting a dangerous liaison with Carlotta Ponti … dangerous
because Verubia’s President is also enamored of the lovely Italian
lady.
Genre: ISBN: Fiction / Adventure
97898143584507 (ebook)
18 NONFICTION (new & forthcoming)
(new & forthcoming) NONFICTION 19
The Defence and Fall of Singapore
Singapore on the Couch
Shortly after midnight on 8 December 1941, two divisions of crack troops of the Imperial
Japanese Army began a seaborne invasion of southern Thailand and northern Malaya. Their
assault developed into a full-blown advance towards Singapore, the main defensive position
of the British Empire in the Far East. The defending British, Indian, Australian and Malayan
forces were outmanoeuvred on the ground, overwhelmed in the air and scattered on the
sea. By the end of January 1942, British Empire forces were driven back onto the island of
Singapore itself, cut off from further outside help. When the Japanese stormed the island
with an all-out assault, the defenders were quickly pushed back into a corner from which
there was no escape. Singapore’s defenders finally capitulated on 15 February, to prevent
the wholesale pillage of the city itself. Their rapid and total defeat was nothing less than
military humiliation and political disaster. Based on the most extensive use yet of primary
documents in Britain, Japan, Australia and Singapore, Professor Brian P. Farrell provides the
fullest picture of how and why Singapore fell and its real significance to the outcome of the
Second World War.
As Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary as a sovereign and independent country, what
does it mean to be a Singaporean? Singapore on the Couch offers a unique insight into
the Singapore psyche through a collection of interviews with 12 astonishing individuals,
all of whom have achieved prominence in their specialty fields. Representing brawn are
Ray and Roy Yeo, competitive bodybuilders and twins; displaying Singapore’s celebrated
business acumen are Richard Eu of Eu Yan Sang and global entrepreneur Vikram Chand;
championing the Singapore arts scene are theatre and film producer W!ld Rice’s Glen Goei,
and music director of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra, Darrell Ang; discussing faith
and its place in multi-ethnic Singapore are GP-turned-pastor and founder of Goducate Dr
Paul Choo and the CEO and medical director of HCA Hospice Care Dr Akhilesh; dispelling
the myth of the humourless Singaporean are quipsters Toh Paik Choo, Dream Academy’s
Selena Tan and Mr Brown; and representing A Truly Astonishing Singaporean – ‘ATAS’ for
short – is Professor Tommy Koh, one of Singapore’s Ambassadors-At-Large and role model
for a nation.
Genre: History / Military
ISBNs: 9789814423885 (pb) / 9789814423882 (e)
Genre: ISBN: Singapore Mutiny
Toraja
‘Chinese New Year 1915 will long be remembered in the Straits Settlements,’ write Edwin
and Mary Brown in their extraordinary account of the 1915 Singapore Mutiny. ‘We left for
home, had a tiffin, and went to our rooms for a lie-off, having arranged to go for a good
walk when the heat of the day was over. We had our tea, and at 5 pm got into the trap. We
drove along Tanglin Road, into Stephens Road, and along Bukit Timah Road to the junction
of Cluny Road, and there we dismissed the syce. We thought it a curious fact that no-one
was playing tennis … and there was not a soul to be seen on the garrison golf course … You
can imagine our horror when we found that the 5th Light Infantry had broken out in open
mutiny and had been in Tanglin that afternoon, and were even then supposed to be marching
on Singapore!’ So begins this enthralling husband-and-wife account of an unexpected and
terrifying episode in Singapore’s history that saw 850 Indian soldiers revolt and slaughter 47
British and local soldiers and civilians. Never before transcribed, this memoir is published for
the first time, 100 years after the events took place.
In 1985, Dr Nigel Barley, then senior anthropologist at The British Museum, taught himself
Indonesian and set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Here he
hoped to find unsullied cultures to study and unspoilt natives to investigate. Barley soon
found plenty to wonder at and plenty to admire among the Toraja, a vastly interesting people
whose culture includes headhunting, transvestite priests and the massacre of buffalo. In witty
and finely crafted prose, Barley offers fascinating insight into the people of Sulawesi and their
lifestyles, and he recounts hilarious tales of the many memorable characters he meets there,
not least the four Torajan woodcarvers the author invites back to London to construct an
Indonesian rice barn in The British Museum. This quartet of Indonesian Marx Brothers soon
discover the joys of pornographic films and the London Zoo, although they never get to grips
with turning off bathroom taps.
Brian P. Farrell
Ong Yong Lock
Edwin A. Brown & Mary Brown
Nonfiction
9789814423779 (pb)
Nigel Barley
Genre: ISBNs: Genre: Memoir / Military
ISBNs: 9789814625050 (pb) / 9789814625067 (e)
Nonfiction
9789814423465 (pb) / 9789814423472 (e)
“A fascinating tour through a little-known corner of the world,
escorted by one of the wittiest guides around” Kirkus Review
IMAGES FROM ‘SINGAPORE MUTINY’
IMAGES FROM ‘TORAJA’
20 NONFICTION (new & forthcoming)
Raffles and the British Invasion of Java
Tim Hannigan
Anwar Ibrahim: Evolution of a Muslim Democrat
Charles Allers
On a hot August afternoon in 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore
through the muddy shallows off Batavia to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would
remain there for five turbulent years. Told in full for the first time, this is the story of how
the British attempted to bring the full force of European colonialism to a tropical island
where Muslim sultans claimed descent from Hindu gods. It is also the story of the man
who presided over that attempt – Thomas Stamford Raffles, destined for future fame as
the founder of Singapore. Drawing on both British and Javanese archive sources, the book
explores the bloody battles and furious controversies that marked British rule in Java, and
reveals Raffles – long celebrated as a hero, a liberal and a visionary, ‘The last colonialist it’s
OK to like’ – in a shocking new light, showing how he crushed dissent, looted palaces and
incited massacres to further his own insatiable ambitions. Reissued in 2014 with index.
Genre: ISBNs: NONFICTION 21
Nonfiction / History
9789814358859 (pb) / 9789814358866 (e)
WINNER of the 2013 John Brooks Award (UK) for historical nonfiction
Long before the recent Arab Spring, when the topic of democracy with in many Muslim
countries took center stage internationally, Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim, an energetic and
charismatic politician, had been one of the most vocal global proponents of the compatibility
of Islam and democratic principles. Anwar, who at one time was asked to be secretary-general
of the United Nations, has lived a life that is a compelling testimony of the growth and
evolution of his love for his country and his faith. Anwar has been active at the highest levels
of Malaysian politics for over thirty years, and though he has been jailed for his activism on
several occasions, he continues to be a dynamic, passionate voice for the diverse cultures,
religions, and peoples of Malaysia. Anwar’s life story is told in a factual, impartial way, and
his one-on-one interviews with this book’s author add a personal component. This volume is
essential reading for those interested to develop their understanding of the complexities and
controversies surrounding Anwar Ibrahim and his place in Malaysian society, as well as those
interested in attitudes toward politics and religion in modern Islamic contexts.
Genre: ISBNs: Biography
9789814423717 (pb) / 9789814423724 (e)
Our Man in Malaya
Pairing Wine with Asian Food
The career of John Davis was inextricably and paradoxically intertwined with that of Chin
Peng, the leader of the Malayan Communist Party and the man who was to become Britain’s
chief enemy in the long Communist struggle for the soul of Malaya. When the Japanese
invaded Malaya during WWII, John Davis escaped to Ceylon, sailing 1,700 miles in a Malay
fishing boat, before planning the infiltration of Chinese intelligence agents and British officers
back into the Malayan peninsula. With the support of Chin Peng and the cooperation of
the Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army, Davis led SOE Force 136 into Japanese-occupied
Malaya where he operated from camps deep in the jungle with Freddy Spencer Chapman
and fellow covert agents. Yet Davis was more than a wartime hero. Following the war, he
was heavily involved in Malayan Emergency affairs: squatter control, the establishment of
New Villages and, vitally, of tracking down and confronting his old adversary Chin Peng and
the communist terrorists. Historian and biographer Margaret Shennan, born and raised in
Malaya and an expert on the British in pre-independence Malaysia, tells the extraordinary,
untold story of John Davis, CBE, DSO, an iconic figure in Malaya’s colonial history.
Illustrated with Davis’ personal photographs and featuring correspondence between Davis
and Chin Peng, this is a story which truly deserves to be told.
Dining out on dim sum and looking for the perfect wine to accompany your meal?
Wondering which bottle to uncork when serving up Thai? In Pairing Wine with
Asian Food, oenologist, wine judge, and wine writer Edwin Soon explores the
most important theories of matching wine and Asian cuisine. Discover hundreds
of inspired food and wine marriages from Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia,
Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Singapore, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as from Burgher, Eurasian, and Nyonya
cuisines. Also featured is a special section on matching wine by occasion, such
as an Asian finger food party or barbecue, or by type, such as curries, vegetarian
dishes or seafood. Imagine serving a crisp, tangy aged Riesling with a steamed river
fish with ginger, soy, and chili, or a peppery California Zinfandel with succulent
Chinese barbecued pork ribs. For sheer indulgence, savour Hainanese chicken rice
with lashings of chili, ginger, and sweet soy and a glass of Sauternes – surely a
match made in heaven. Whether you’re a wine lover or new to the subject, this book
encourages you to have fun and experiment for there is no reason why you can’t
enjoy wine with all your favourite Asian dishes.
Genre: ISBNs: Genre: ISBN: Margaret Sheenan
IMAGES FROM ‘OUR MAN IN MALAYA’
Biography / Military
9789814423861 (pb) / 9789814423878 (e)
Edwin Soon
IMAGES FROM ‘PAIRING WINE WITH ASIAN FOOD’
Food & Drink
9789810592134 (hc) / 9789814358941 (e)
22 NONFICTION
NONFICTION 23
Sold for Silver
Malayan Spymaster
Janet Lim
‘I was looked at, criticized and, after
much bargaining, sold for $250.’ So
begins Janet Lim’s ordeal as a mui
tsai, or slave girl, in 1930s Singapore.
But this is only the beginning of a
remarkable journey, which sees the
author freed from child bondage to
assume a position of leadership, and
obtain true happiness, in later life.
Janet’s writing is honest, enthralling
and inspirational. Despite a horrific
childhood and early adult life, Janet
was able to find benevolence and even humour in her misfortune.
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789810517281 (pb)
‘a compelling story of endurance, faith and friendship’
Publishers Weekly
The Boat:
Singapore Escape,
Cannibalism at Sea
Walter Gibson
In 1942 a ship carrying 500 escapees
from Japanese-occupied Singapore set
sail from Padang for Ceylon. Halfway
to safety she was torpedoed and sank.
Amidst the horror and confusion, only
one lifeboat was launched—a lifeboat
built to carry 28 but to which 135
souls now looked to for salvation. For
26 days she drifted across the Indian
Ocean. For 26 days, cannibalism, murder, heroism and self-sacrifice
drifted with her. When the lifeboat finally ran aground on the island
of Sipora, off Sumatra, only four had survived.
Genre: Memoir
ISBNs: 9789810583019 (pb) / 9789814358958 (e)
Growing up in Trengganu
Awang Goneng
In the Footsteps of
Stamford Raffles
Boris Hembry
This is a true story of 1930s Malaysia,
of jungle operations, submarines and
spies in WWII, and of the postwar
Malayan Emergency, as experienced
by an extraordinary man. Boris
Hembry volunteered for Freddy
Spencer Chapman’s covert Stay Behind
Party and spent a month in the jungle
behind enemy lines before escaping
by sampan across the Malacca Strait
to Sumatra. Hembry returned to
Singapore shortly before its surrender
then escaped to Java and subsequently to India, where he joined V
Force, a clandestine intelligence unit operating in Burma. Hembry
was recruited into the Secret Intelligence Service and returned to
Sumatra and Malaya several times by submarine on intelligencegathering missions.
Genre: ISBNs: Memoir
9789810854423 (pb) / 9789814358309 (e)
You’ll Die in Singapore
Charles McCormac
With sixteen others, P.O.W. Charles
McCormac broke out of prison camp
in Singapore and began an epic 2,000mile escape from Singapore, through
the jungles of Indonesia to Australia.
With no compass and no map,
and only the goodwill of villagers
and their own wits to rely on, the
British and Australian P.O.W.s’ escape
took a staggering five months and
only two out of the original seventeen
men survived.
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789810530150 (pb)
Nigel Barley
Born into genteel poverty in 1781,
Raffles joined the East India Company
at the age of fourteen and worked
his way up to become Lieutenant
Governor of Java. In this intriguing
book, part history, part travelogue,
Nigel Barley re-visits the places that
were important in the life of Stamford
Raffles and evaluates his heritage in
an account that is both humorous and
insightful.
Genre: ISBNs: Biography / Travelogue
9789810835347 (pb)) / 9789814423328 (e)
The Golden Chersonese
Isabella Bird
In 1880, Isabella Bird visited the Malay
Peninsula — romantically dubbed
‘The Golden Chersonese’ — and was
still able to refer to it as an almost
unknown land. From courtroom to
elephant back, from the grandeur
of Malacca’s Stadthuys to the jungle
calm of a picturesque Malay village
on stilts, this indefatigable Victorian
explorer offers invaluable descriptions
and delightful hand-drawn sketches
of life in late nineteenth-century
Singapore and the Malay Peninsula.
Genre: Memoir / Travelogue
ISBNs: 9789810844844 (pb) / 9789814358026 (e)
‘A witty, sprightly and elegantly written book’
The Sunday Times, UK
Indiscreet Memories:
1901 Singapore through
the eyes of a colonial
Englishman
Edwin A. Brown
Through diary extracts and personal
memories, this young Englishman
brings to life characters and events in
a country few would recognise today.
Entertainment came in the form of
comic operas, visiting circuses, balls
at Government House and socialising
at the Tingel Tangel dance hall. There
were rickshaw strikes, Sunday morning horse rides around the
Settlement and tigers causing havoc in Chinatown.
Genre: Memoir
ISBNs: 9789810586911 (pb) / 9789814358200 (e)
“An amazing story” Library Journal
A Servant of Sarawak
Peter Mooney
In 1953, Peter Mooney, a newly
qualified advocate, decided to
forsake the historic city of Edinburgh
and accept the position of Crown
Counsel, Sarawak in far-off Borneo.
During his time in Sarawak, Peter
faced numerous colourful characters
in court, from indigenous warriors
sporting feathered headdresses and
leopard’s teeth earrings to the equally
intimidating David Marshall and
Lee Kuan Yew, lawyers who would
become, respectively, the first Chief Minister and Prime Minister of
Singapore. This captivating memoir records historically important
details of Sarawak’s indigenous people and colonial life at the time.
Genre: Memoir
ISBNs: 9789814358378 (pb) / 9789814358385 (e)
‘This book is a treasure trove for anyone interested in Singapore’
The Straits Times
A Map of Trengganu
Awang Goneng
Stir-fried and not Shaken
Terry Tan
Through a collection of memories
retold in glorious colour, Awang
Goneng evokes the pleasures of a
kampung childhood for the benefit
of new generations brought up in airconditioned condominiums. Listen to
the azan call to prayer from the surau
of Haji Mat Kerinci, order satay with
toast for breakfast, meet notables such
as Tun Long the laundry man and Cik
Wook Payong Löcöh, whose umbrella
turned inside out in a storm, and relive
the pleasure of hearing the rain hammer down on a corrugated-iron
roof while reading The Beano and eating kuih putu.
Following the runaway success of
Growing Up in Trengganu, Awang
Goneng now takes his journey further
to map out the town where he was
born. A Map of Trengganu gives a
vibrant and extraordinary topography
of the land and its people for the
uninitiated and for those who are
familiar with the terrain and territory.
Time does not stand still in Kuala
Trengganu as Awang Goneng notes,
but it moves at a different pace in
every fascia, and then it is gone forever.
Singapore’s
favourite
cookbook
author, TV chef and food writer Terry
Tan takes a trip down memory lane
offering an intriguing insight into a
very different Singapore that existed
from the 1940s to 1970s. Resident or
visitor, you will be endlessly fascinated
by his memoirs that recall funny,
familiar and forgotten moments of
this forty-year passage. Meet Khan
Chia Peh the trishaw man, Muthu the
barber, and delight in Granny’s flying
fox curries. Peel away the decades and discover what it feels like to
be ‘stir-fried but not shaken’.
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789810586928 (pb)
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789810854317 (pb)
Genre: Memoir
ISBNs: 9789810807054 (pb)
Singapore Girl
James Eckardt
This is the true story of a long-vanished
Singapore and the dangerous carnival
known as Bugis Street. In 1975 James
Eckardt become enchanted by a funloving Singaporean nymph named
Milly who showed him the exotic
wonders of her city. And then, in 2004,
an email arrived that led Eckardt to
discover the fate of the Singapore girl,
who, at the time he had loved her, had
not technically been female.
Genre: Memoir
ISBNs: 9789810562342 (pb) / 9789814358064 (e)
‘I was fascinated by Singapore Girl, a love story like no other—
bizarre and oddly moving’ Paul Theroux
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Escape: The true story of the only Westerner ever to escape
from Thailand’s Bangkok Hilton
Confessions of a Bangkok
Private Eye
David McMillan
Stephen Leather & Warren Olson
Klong Prem prison, Thailand. The “Bangkok Hilton”, where 600 foreigners among the
12,000 inmates of this walled prison city also wait and rot. Among the tragic, ruthless and
forgotten, one man resolves to do what no other has done: escape. This is the true story of
drug smuggler David McMillan’s perilous break-out from Asia’s most notorious prison.
From his arrest at Don Muang airport, to awaiting trial inside Klong Prem, he provides an
insight into the lives of the British, Australian, American and other Western prisoners as they
are destroyed by disease, neglect and despair. Death is their only way out. Two weeks before
a near-certain death sentence McMillan escaped, never to be seen in Thailand again.
For more than a decade Bangkok
Private Eye Warren Olson walked the
mean streets of the Big Mango. Fluent
in Thai and Khmer, he was able to go
where other Private Eyes feared to
tread. The stories are based on Olson’s
case files, fictionalised (to protect the
innocent, and the guilty) by bestselling
author Stephen Leather.
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9789810575687 (pb) / 9789814358354 (e)
Over 50,000 copies of David McMillan’s Escape sold worldwide
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9789810548322 (pb) / 9789814358002 (e)
‘Breathtaking stuff’ News of the World, UK
‘Amazing breakout in Bangkok’ The Australian
‘The jailbreak was straight out of a movie’ The Age, Australia
‘Drug trafficker David McMillan spent two years plotting his escape from a Bangkok jail’ BBC
Thai Private Eye
Warren Olson
This follow-up to Stephen Leather and
Warren Olson’s bestselling Confessions
of a Bangkok Private Eye—serves up
more juicy portions of what goes on
under the veneer in Thailand. It also
includes recent cases, where state-ofthe-art surveillance devices and other
advances in the dark arts of private
investigation have made it easier to
uncover dirt deep below the surface.
This is a book that reads like exciting
fiction, with one big difference: every
story is true. These chronicles of a decade lived dangerously in the
Land of Crooked Smiles will, by turns, entertain, shock, inflame and
inform you.
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9789810810849 (pb) / 9789814358071 (e)
Praying to the Goddess
of Mercy
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Mahita Vas
Escape The Past
David McMillan
In this gripping prequel to Escape, drug smuggler-turned-bestselling author David McMillan tells it from
the beginning. Throwing away an expensive education as a teenager then a promising executive career,
McMillan hits rock bottom only to shake off the dust from the dirt-floor warehouse that was his home
to make his first million dealing drugs before he turned 21. McMillan details his incredible plans to
smuggle two tonnes of marijuana from northern Thailand by Learjet, befriend drug-dealing pimps in
fishbowl brothels in Bangkok, rig cockfights in Manila with disgraced British peer Lord Moynihan and
even transport liquid heroin in a transparent glass statue. Learn the tricks of the smuggling trade as
McMillan arms himself and his teams of couriers with dozens of passports and custom-built machines
that frustrate border guards for years.
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9789814358279 (pb) / 9789814358286 (e)
When Mahita was 15, her teacher
in Singapore said she could see the
devil in her eyes. While growing up,
then raising a family of her own, she
constantly fought to understand and
control this ‘devil’ inside her. No one,
least of all Mahita, suspected she was
mentally ill … until the day her sister
suggested she had ‘inherited Daddy’s
illness’. This epiphanic revelation
led to a bipolar disorder diagnosis at age 41, followed by a suicide
attempt where she narrowly escaped death. Praying to the Goddess
of Mercy charts Mahita’s journey from chaos to stability. It offers
insights into an illness for which there is no known cause, no cure
and no immunity. It will inspire and enlighten people with mental
disorders and the loved ones who suffer with them.
Genre: Memoir / Depression / Mental Illness
ISBN: 9789814358910 (pb) / 9789814358927 (e)
Bangkok Hard Time
Jon Cole
Nightmare in Bangkok
Andy Botts began his criminal
activities as a young ‘car banger’ in
his native Hawaii before graduating
to drug-dealing and trafficking. After
a number of successful and highly
lucrative drug runs to Asia, Botts
was betrayed by a close associate.
Arrested in Bangkok’s Don Muang
International Airport with 114
grams of heroin in his possession, he
narrowly escaped execution by firing
squad. But his ‘reprieve’—a prison
sentence of life plus two years in Bangkok’s most notorious prison,
dubbed the Bangkok Hilton—threw him into a nightmare world
where the only rules were no rules.
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9789814358323 (pb) / 9789814358330 (e)
Genre: True crime
ISBN: 9789810813017 (pb)
Ong Yong Lock
Country Madness is a delightfully
quirky memoir of a Singaporean
psychiatrist in rural England. In
humorous and insightful prose, Ong
Yong Lock describes living in two
cultures and belonging to both. He
shares his thoughts about his adopted
home, his Chinese cultural roots
and his attraction to the mysterious
Carolyn as well as to pheasants (which
he considers a prototype of the Chinese
phoenix). This very idiosyncratic
English country diary is written by a Singaporean psychiatrist with
an acute eye for cultural differences as well as the wonderful frailties
of the human psyche.
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789810854324
Toxic Panda
Andy Botts
It is 1967 Bangkok, the Summer of
Love, and for teenager Jon Cole, son of
a US Green Beret colonel serving in the
Vietnam War, life as a young Westerner
in the City of Angels is sweeter than
mangoes on sticky rice with coconut
milk … until he is introduced to
the infamous House of Lek. Drawn
to the underbelly of Bangkok, the
International School Bangkok pupil
soon discovers ganja, opium and the
two-dollar bordellos. The story of
Jon’s misspent youth in Thailand and his subsequent life inside Klong
Prem prison.
Country Madness
The Great Singapore Quiz
Adam Adams
Packed with 2,000 questions (and
answers), The Great Singapore Quiz is
a must for all trivia addicts. With ten
different subjects to choose from, test
your all-round knowledge and earn
bonus points with celebrity-endorsed
questions. How much do you really
know about Singapore, the place you
call home?
Solve the puzzles in this book and win
cash prizes. Welcome to Toxic Panda
— the amazing armchair treasure
hunt novel written entirely without
the letter E. The first person to solve
the puzzle for each chapter of Toxic
Panda will receive a cash prize.
Genre: ISBNs: Nonfiction / Quiz
9789810861148 (pb) / 9789814358460 (e)
Genre: ISBNs: Nonfiction / Quiz
9789810592103 (pb)
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Bali Undercover
Eve: Memoirs of an International Sex Worker
In this follow-up to his international bestseller Bali Raw, Malcolm Scott strips off the island’s
sunny veneer to reveal its dark and dirty underbelly, taking the reader where no tourist guide
ever will. Take a walk through the night streets of Kuta Beach to meet its wild and willing
hookers, its dolled-up trannies and desperate college girls, and discover first hand all the sexy
and sleazy secrets that the island hides by day. Creep through grimy alleyways awash with
drugs and thugs and corrupt cops, and hang out in seedy bars full of cheap booze, rowdy
pimps and bloody fist fights. Sneak a peek into the private lives of shifty locals and wide-eyed
Australian tourists, and enjoy a voyeur’s view of the deceit, drama and everything else the
island is afraid to show us. In yet another steamy exposé of Bali and its sins and secrets, Bali
Undercover suggests why the island may no longer be paradise, but a paradise lost.
From a wide-eyed innocent working in an Australian brothel at the age of fifteen, Annika
quickly takes control of her destiny and works her way up through high-end parlours and
agencies to become a successful professional sex worker commanding high fees and a lifestyle
to match. Working under the name Eve, her beauty, presence and sex are in high demand,
and men are ready to pay exorbitant amounts for her company. Based in Australia and
Singapore, Annika services royalty and rock stars, politicians and businessmen, and is flown
for jobs around Southeast Asia by her Orchard Road agency. Annika reveals the truth of a
sex worker’s life: the clients, the girls, the parlour bosses, the rip-off merchants, the drug
deaths, the white slavery, the discrimination, the corrupt police, the exotic travel and the
money. And through this eye-opening and moving memoir, Annika also reveals how she
becomes empowered and makes her own decisions, and how as a single mother she not only
puts her child through private school but returns to school herself, obtaining a postgraduate
degree and a string of letters after her name. This is the true story of Annika Cleeve’s eighteen
years as a sex worker and international escort in Australia, Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Malcolm Scott
Genre: ISBNs: Annika Cleeve
Nonfiction
9789814625135 (pb) / 9789814625142 (e)
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789814423991 (pb)
ALSO IN THIS SERIES
Red-light Nights, Bangkok Daze
William Sparrow
Sexy, entertaining, and thoroughly informative, Red-light Nights, Bangkok Daze is a collection
of reports that offers a glimpse into what is enticing, insightful, and possibly unknown about
sex in Asia. It looks at the sex scenes and unseens in the ‘usual suspects’ of Thailand, the
Philippines, Hong Kong, and Japan as well as in less obvious countries such as Pakistan,
China, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Covering the gamut of love, lust, passion, and
pleasure across Asia, these articles offer unique insights into the sometimes shadowy world
of the carnal pleasures on offer and the hypocrisies surrounding them. Gathered from the
views of unrepentant ‘sexpats’, wayward tourists, and the locals themselves, in Red-light
Nights, Bangkok Daze, you’ll find revelations about the varied experiences this huge cast of
characters participates in. Succumb to the lights, and weather the daze; you’ll find yourself
exhilarated and waking to a newfound awareness of the complex, interesting and yet
confusing world of sex in Asia.
Jakarta Undercover
Moammar Emka
Jakarta Undercover II
Kuala Lumpur Undercover
Moammar Emka
Ewe Paik Leong
ISBNs:
9789814423564 (pb)
9789814358163 (e)
ISBNs:
9789814423175 (pb)
9789814423182 (e)
ISBNs:
9789814423557 (pb)
9789814358118 (e)
Genre: ISBNs: Nonfiction
9789810810764 (pb) / 9789814358019 (e)
Bali Raw
Invisible Trade (Vols. 1 & 2)
In this extraordinary exposé, Australian author and Bali resident Malcolm Scott reveals the
raw underbelly of Bali. He walks readers down Bali’s mean streets with honesty, humour and
gritty realism and offers up a Bali choking with violent street fights, cheap sex and aggressive
crime. Bali Raw is a must-read for anyone who has visited, or is thinking of travelling to,
Indonesia’s Island of the Gods.
Singapore’s hottest nonfiction series with over
35,000 copies sold, Invisible Trade explores the
city-state’s burgeoning sex industry, from high-class
escorts to legal brothel workers and illegal freelance
sex workers.
Malcolm Scott
Genre: ISBNs: Gerrie Lim
Nonfiction
9789814358712 (pb) / 9789814358729 (e)
Volume 1
Genre:
ISBNs
Volume 2
Genre:
ISBNs:
Nonfiction
9789814423571 (pb)
9789814358101 (e)
Nonfiction
9789814423588 (pb)
9789814358033 (e)
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Tales from a Broad:
An Unreliable Memoir of an
Expat Wife in Singapore
Fran Lebowitz
Late Blossom:
A true story of life, loss and
love in war-torn Viet Nam
Laura Lâm
When a frazzled New Yorker who is
mad, bad and dangerous lands in Asia,
life is never quite the same again – for
anyone. Fran Lebowitz cheerfully
admits that she is intergalactically
self-absorbed, a little crazy and
really, really hard to please – just ask
her eternally patient and bemused
husband, Frank. But when her life in
the fast land falls apart – again – it’s time for a miracle. Reeling from
the worst week of her life, topped off by her most important client
stabbing her in the back, Fran realises that she’s almost forgotten
what her family looks like. She wants out of the rat race and her
hectic life as a literary agent – and time to be herself, a real wife and
mother to her two small children.
Late Blossom is a moving true story
set during the Viet Nam War about
how ordinary people cope with
extraordinary circumstances, and how
a few, in spite of unimaginable horror
and constant fear, somehow manage
to reach deep within themselves and
survive the despair and dark of night
to embrace the hope and light of day.
In these pages we are taken into a world where personal insecurity,
sudden ruin and the real possibility of torture and violent death
are as perfunctorily taken for granted as tomorrow’s sunrise. We
are introduced to a cast of real-life characters caught up in and
struggling against the sweeping tides of history.
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789814358453
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789814358675
My Thai Girl & I:
How I found a new life
in Thailand
Andrew Hicks
This is about how Andrew Hicks
met Cat, a ‘Thai girl’ half his age and
how they set up home together in her
village out in the rice fields of North
Eastern Thailand. He’ll tell you of
toads in the toilet, of ants’ eggs for
breakfast, how they took up frog
farming and how he got married without really meaning to. It’s also
a book about the countryside, of the old Thailand where the rhythm
of the seasons and belief in the spirits and Buddhism remain strong.
Though how could Andrew, a greying English lawyer, ever fit into
the lives of a Thai rice farming family? Can Cat and Andrew with
their many differences really be compatible?
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789814358651
Confessions of a Hostie
Danielle Hugh
If you have ever wondered what it
would be like to be a jet-setting hostie,
or international flight attendant, then
spending a little time in Danielle’s life
is a captivating journey. You might
be surprised and shocked to discover
many of the truths behind the lifestyle
as well as the incidences and behaviour
of passengers at 30,000 feet. Danielle
writes candidly, humorously and from
the heart about life, love and her
exploits around the world. From the
slums of Mumbai to the glitz of New York there are as many highs
and lows as take-offs and landings.
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789814358637
Jasmine Fever:
Confessions of a jaded
expat in Thailand
Frank Visakay
When New York chef Frank Visakay
traded in the sweaty heat of the
restaurant kitchen for the glorious
tropical heat of Thailand, he thought
he had found paradise. Not only
was the lifestyle laid back, the food
delicious and the beers chilled but
he was even attracting the attention
of beautiful Thai women. Or so he
thought. With Jasmine Fever, Visakay offers a series of revelations
about his and his fellow expatriates’ relationships with Thai bargirls.
And, as we learn from one of the eponymously named stories,
perhaps he is ‘looking for love in all the wrong places’.
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789814358170
More Confessions
of a Hostie
Danielle Hugh
It is common knowledge among flight
crew that good gossip travels faster
than airplanes and in this sequel to
bestselling Confessions of a Hostie,
international flight attendant Danielle
Hugh entertains and shocks in equal
measure with more turbulent tales
of life in the sky. Intense shopping,
jetlag, poltergeist passengers, milehigh-club contenders and sick bags
all put in an appearance, as do
Danielle’s ‘earthling’ boyfriend, Dean, her best friend, Helen, and
her promiscuous fellow hostie, Mary-go-round.
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789814423700
I Will Survive:
Personal gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender
stories in Singapore
Leow Yangfa
I Will Survive brings together real-life
experiences of love, grace, faith, dignity
and courage from 21 ordinary people
who have survived extraordinary
circumstances.
Prefacing
these
stories are contributions from 5
local commentators who share their
personal reflections on the gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender communities in Singapore. They are: Mrs
Juliana Toh, Executive Director of Counselling and Care Centre;
Reverend Yap Kim Hao, former Methodist Bishop of Singapore;
transgender activist Ms Leona Lo; and former Nominated Members
of Parliament Ms Braema Mathi and Mr Siew Kum Hong.
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789814358224
In Lust We Trust
Gerrie Lim
Intrepid journalist and bestselling
author Gerrie Lim invites you to
join him on an unusual road trip,
through his adoptive home town
of Los Angeles, California, and its
deceptively suburban San Fernando
Valley—the ground-zero of the everbooming, US$12-billion American
porn industry. His chronicle spans
a ten-year cycle, during which he
interviewed adult-film superstars
like Jenna Jameson, Jill Kelly and
Silvia Saint, shared with Asia Carrera and Annabel Chong mutual
thoughts on being Asian in a largely non-Asian field, and filed
reportage from film shoots as the “Cinema Blue” columnist for
Penthouse Variations.
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789814358125
In the Land of Living
Dangerously:
Bali, Borneo & Beyond
Jay Cowan
In this adventure travelogue, author
Jay Cowan explores myriad issues
experienced during his travels in
the Indonesian archipelago from
culture and history to politics and
anthropology, from exotic endemic
wildlife and huge environmental
challenges to one-on-one encounters
with volcanic eruptions, earthquakes
and tsunamis, the natural disasters that keep the region in the news.
Genre: Travelogue
ISBN: 9789814358767
Buffalo & Breadfruit:
Tales of an unwary expat
in Malaysia
Martin Bradley
As the author unwittingly discovers,
there is nothing quite like uprooting
yourself from your home of 54 years
in suburban, temperate England
and transplanting yourself into
rural, equatorial Malaysia. Bradley
attempts to make a new life for
himself in provincial Malaysia, living
with poisonous snakes, chickenkilling civet cats, and water buffalo intent on chomping the delicate
mango shoots and saplings he has nurtured for many weeks. The
idyll he hopes to find is far from idyllic, his stoicism far from stoic
and his temper far from temperate. Follow the hapless author as he
undertakes a personal seven-year journey into a new religion that he
is not suited to, a love affair which should never have been and a
culture that requires the patience of the saint he is not.
Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 9789814358750
Gone Troppo
Stu Lloyd
Tropical = Paradise, right? Wrong!
Travel writer Stu Lloyd simply wanted
to enjoy seamless sunshine, frolic in
azure waters with dusky maidens,
and drink chilled beers in exotic
climes—all at the publisher’s expense.
Too much to ask? Apparently so
… In this riotous romp through
The Tropics, Stu often finds more
Purgatory than Paradise, more Hell
than Heaven. He is pick-pocketed in
India, gets becalmed in the pirateinfested waters of Malaysia, bribes an over-zealous policeman in
the Philippines and is hospitalised with dengue fever in Singapore.
He swims with sharks off Costa Rica, and discovers a new breed
in Thailand: ‘Koh Samui is home to three types of sharks: blacktip reef sharks, leopard sharks and German property developers.’
Genre: Travelogue
ISBN: 9789814358347
So long! I’ll be back
in 30 years
Margo McCutcheon
Author Margo McCutcheon takes
readers on a 30-year journey
through Asia and an array of bizarre
characters, adventures, disasters and
life-changing encounters. Open the
book randomly and step into the life
of a Filipino girl living and thriving in
a city dump, an Aussie retiree dwelling
in a Sinai desert cave, a 50-something
married American woman living in
Malaysia who discovers she’s gay, and
a unique assortment of locals and expatriates calling Asia home.
Genre: Travelogue
ISBN: 9789814358965
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Increase F&B Sales:
Secrets to Boost Profits
Staff Selection:
Secrets to Employ the Best
People
Eric Alagan
Increase F&B Sales is a book for
managers and owners of F&B outlets.
Escalating costs cut into profits. This
leads some F&B operators to raise
prices, reduce portions, drop quality
or resort to a combination of all three.
A more effective and sustainable
strategy to drive bottom line is to
exploit the sometimes overlooked
potential within their organisations –
the waitstaff. The waitstaff spends the most time with diners and
is in a position to build rapport with customers and many do. This
bond is a powerful tool enticing and encouraging customers to
return and motivates your staff to do better and stay with you. It
grows sales. This strength is something your competitor will find
hard to surmount and a true win-win-win situation for you (the
business operator), your staff and your customers. The danger is
when that waitstaff leaves and the familiar face gone. There is a
probability the customer might also be lost but there are ways to
circumvent this risk.
Genre: ISBN: Business
9789814358613
Property Valuation:
Secrets of the Roman
Decision Model
Eric Alagan
Ignore “affordability” and focus on
“fair value” – why pay a $1 million just
because one can “afford” it when the
property is worth only $750,000.00?
This guide helps you value property
consistently and objectively using five
critical parameters:
1. Return on Investment – how much
money you ought to receive for the
money you pump in as deposits and top-up – factors in mortgage
rate changes.
2. Value your property based on market size – how many buyers/
sellers are competing with you – translated into rental returns –
including periodic rental increases.
3. Calculate the full income/benefits of your property based on
tenure – the longer the tenure, the more overall income – but how
long a tenure (hint – not the 99 years).
4. Factor in your risk appetite – which changes with time – from
marriage, with children, empty nest/retirement.
5. Finally, don’t forget the time value of money – a dollar today is
worth less in 10 or even 5 years hence – determine this now, today
before you sign on the dotted line.
The handbook also helps you to empirically factor in and trade off
subjective elements such as (for example): home near office vs near
shopping, transport and other amenities; proximity to schools vs
grandparents; good facing/feng shui vs price; and other attributes
that you prefer. A must-read book before committing to buy/sell/
hold property worth hundreds of thousands and even millions of
dollars.
9789814358088
Eric Alagan
Employee Capability Factor – Do
you know what that means? How do
you identify an employee’s Capability
Factor, How do you determine your
team’s Capability Factor, How do you
maintain or better still improve your
team’s Capability Factor?
These are some of the questions that
Staff Selection addresses. The book
assumes no prior knowledge or training in Human Resource and
takes you by the hand to develop your very own Human Resource
Manual in the process of Staff Recruitment, Selection, Interview
Techniques and Probation. The ebook is filled with dozens of
worked examples, sample forms and letters that – all you have to do
is to simply insert your company letterhead and use.
9789814358095
About Monsoon Books
Monsoon Books is a Singapore-registered independent publisher of award-winning English-language books and ebooks on
Asia, with its editorial office at Burrough on the Hill in the UK. Monsoon publishes fiction (literary and commercial) and nonfiction (biography and autobiography, true crime, food and drink, cookery, travelogues and current affairs) with Asian themes.
It publishes quality books from outstanding writers the world over and has several regional bestsellers to its name.
Monsoon’s titles have been translated into various languages and have been adapted for TV.
Monsoon’s publisher divides his time between Singapore and the UK, and Monsoon exhibits at major international book fairs.
Monsoon Books offers an exciting, innovative and distinctive alternative to commercial publishing; its mission is to be unique—
to find new talent and put publishing in Asia at the heart of the literary world.
Get published
Monsoon is looking for quality manuscripts across all genres — with content set in Asia — for publication in print and/or digital form. Unsolicited manuscripts with Asian themes are welcomed from agents as well as published and unpublished authors.
Submissions guidelines
Please see the Submissions page on Monsoon’s website (www.monsoonbooks.com.sg/submissions). Monsoon only accepts
manuscripts submitted online via the Submissions page.
Agents
Monsoon Books regularly works with literary agents and is keen to hear from agents with manuscripts set in Asia as well as
manuscripts written by authors from Asia.
Manuscript Appraisal
Monsoon Books does not offer manuscript appraisal services. Due to the large number of submissions received, it is unable to
offer a critique of rejected submissions. There are many specialist manuscript appraisal agencies available, most of which have
an online presence and can be found using regular internet searches.
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Twitter
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Website
Visit the Monsoon website for free ebooks, notices of competitions
and for new calls for submission: www.monsoonbooks.com.sg.
Editorial / Sales:
No.1 Duke of Windsor Suite, Burrough Court,
Burrough on the Hill, Leics. LE14 2QS, UK
Registered Office:
150 Orchard Road #07-02
Singapore 238841
Sales and Distribution
Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei
Pansing Distribution Pte Ltd
Tel: +65 6319 9939 (Singapore)
Tel: +603 5631 0794 (Malaysia)
Email: [email protected] (Singapore)
Email: [email protected] (Malaysia)
www.pansing.com
Australia & NZ
Macmillan
Tel: (+61) 3 9825 1000
Email: [email protected]
www.panmacmillan.com.au
Indonesia
Periplus
Tel: (+65) 6280 1330
www.periplus.com
UK & Europe (sales)
DJ Segrue Ltd
Tel: +44 20 8420 6548
www.djsegrue.co.uk
Thailand & Philippines
Monsoon Books
UK & Europe (distribution)
Orca Book Services
Tel: +44 1202 665432
www.orcabookservices.co.uk
USA & Canada
National Book Network (NBN)
Tel: (+1) 800 462 6420
www.nbnbooks.com
Professional membership
• Singapore Book Publishers Association
• The Copyright Licensing and
Administration Society of Singapore
Monsoon Books Pte Ltd
[email protected]
Editorial / Sales:
No.1 Duke of Windsor Suite, Burrough Court,
Burrough on the Hill, Leics. LE14 2QS, UK
Registered Office:
150 Orchard Road #07-02
Singapore 238841

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