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Samarang Hotel by John Webb

SAMARANG HOTEL by John Webb

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Operation Four Rings by JP Cross

OPERATION FOUR RINGS by JP Cross

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RAINY DAY RAMEN and the COSMIC PACHINKO by Gordon Vanstone

RAINY DAY RAMEN AND THE COSMIC PACHINKO by Gordon Vanstone

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Love on the Rocks by Simon Los and David Gallagher

LOVE ON THE ROCKS by Simon Los and David Gallagher

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Saigon Undercover Includes Phuket and Kuala Lumpur by Ewe Paik Leong

SAIGON UNDERCOVER by Ewe Paik Leong

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At Sea with a Song by Catherine Monnet

AT SEA WITH A SONG by Catherine Monnet

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Hungry Ghosts (Singapore Saga, Vol.3) by John D. Greenwood

HUNGRY GHOSTS (SINGAPORE SAGA, VOL.3) by John D. Greenwood

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Death of a Coast Watcher by Anthony English

DEATH OF A COAST WATCHER by Anthony English

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Free UK delivery and only £7 per book postage to the rest of the world. 🌏 and 20% off when you buy 3 books or more. Monsoon publishes fiction and narrative nonfiction set in Southeast Asia with books translated into numerous languages and adapted for TV and stage.
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“Brimming with memorable characters, this colour

“Brimming with memorable characters, this colourful reimagining of the early history of Singapore restores William Farquhar – long eclipsed by Raffles – to his rightful position at the forefront of the founding of the colonial settlement, and brings the intrigues, personality clashes and violence of the era vividly to life.” Tim Hannigan, author of Raffles and the British Invasion of Java

Set against the expansion of Singapore in the years 1834-1854, Chasing the Dragon (Singapore Saga, Vol. 2) continues to vividly portray the lives of the early pioneers of the expanding port city, including Joseph Balestier, Seah Eu Chin, Captain Henry Keppel, Tan Tock Seng, Munshi Abdullah, Governor Butterworth and Whampoa as well as fictional characters who bring nineteenth-century Singapore to life.
Duncan Simpson comes to manhood when he joins James Brooke, the White Rajah of Sarawak, on his expeditions against the piratical Borneo Dayaks; an Indian cattleman turns to tiger hunting when his herd is decimated by disease; a Malay magician conjures up magic spells to capture the love of a woman and destroy her husband; a Chinese mother is haunted by the ghostly cries of her abandoned child; a mesmerist performs a dangerous surgery; and Chinese secret society gangs murder Christian farmers in the interior of the island.

As the troop ships of the British Expeditionary Force assemble in Singapore in preparation for the First Opium War, Hong Xiuquan has a dream that will launch the Taiping Rebellion in China, taking the lives of twenty million and powerfully impacting the fortunes of the new citizens of Singapore.

Chasing the Dragon is volume two in the Singapore Saga, a series of historical fiction that spans the first 100 years of Singapore, and follows Forbidden Hill.

Vol.1: Forbidden Hill
Vol.2: Chasing the Dragon
Vol.3: Hungry Ghosts

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“100 years of early Singapore in new fiction ser

“100 years of early Singapore in new fiction series.” Straits Times, Singapore

On 6 February 1819, Stamford Raffles, William Farquhar, Temenggong Abdul Rahman and Sultan Hussein signed a treaty that granted the British East India Company the right to establish a trading settlement on the sparsely populated island of Singapore.

Forbidden Hill (Singapore Saga, Vol. 1) is a meticulously researched and vividly imagined historical narrative that brings to life the stories of the early European, Malay, Chinese and Indian pioneers – the administrators, merchants, policemen, boatmen, coolies, concubines, slaves and secret society soldiers – whose vision and intrigues drive the rapid expansion of the port city in the early decades of the nineteenth century. While Raffles and Farquhar clash over the administration of the settlement, theScottish merchant adventurer Ronnie Simpson and Englishwoman Sarah Hemmings find love and redemption as they battle an American duelist and Illanun pirates. As the ghosts of the rajahs of the ancient city of Singapura fade into the shadows of Forbidden Hill, the new settlers forge their linked destinies in the ‘emporium of the Eastern seas’.

Vol.1: Forbidden Hill
Vol.2: Chasing the Dragon
Vol.3: Hungry Ghosts

Paperback and ebook available from leading bookstores in Singapore, SE Asia, UK, Australia and North America.

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‘Tough issues explored with pinpoint accuracy ..

‘Tough issues explored with pinpoint accuracy ... erudite in its exploration of unusually difficult issues and ideas,’ writes journalist Robert Forster of ‘Death of a Coast Watcher’ by Anthony English in ‘PNG Attitude’. ‘[The author’s] greatest achievement is to have sat convincingly inside the heads of his principal characters, including the Tolai women, and relayed their most sensitive innermost feeling and thoughts ... Later this year I intend to read his book a second time and digest its many messages at a slower pace. “Death of a Coast Watcher” deserves it.’

Read the full review in ‘PNG Attitude’.

‘Death of a Coast Watcher’ by Anthony English (Monsoon Books, 2020)

Synopsis:
In 1943 on Bougainville Island, New Guinea, a Japanese officer beheads Hugh Rand, an Australian spy — a coast watcher. The spectators include villagers he terrorised as his mind frayed under the stress of pursuit by soldiers and their hounds.

Rand’s influence transcends his death. For decades he plagues characters who strive to cope with him and one another in New Guinea, the Gilbert Islands, Australia and Japan. Who misperceives? Lies? Self-destructs? Suffers? Loves? The layers unfold as the author entices us through cultural, historical and intellectual curtains, deep into minds and relationships disturbed by the Pacific war and Rand’s legacy.

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