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Inspector Singh investigates Inspector Singh investigates Shamini Flint,Shamini Flint "Inspector Singh is in a bad mood. He's been sent from his home in Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to solve a murder that has him stumped. Chelsea Liew - the famous Singaporean model - is on death row for … OL11804402W
Malayan trilogy Malayan trilogy Anthony Burgess Three novels originally published by William Heinemann Ltd. in 1956, 1958, and 1959 respectively. Originally published together by Penguin Books in 1972 at Harmondsworth. OL1386692W
Time for a Tiger Time for a Tiger Anthony Burgess Burgess’s debut novel, this is also the first book in his acclaimed Malayan Trilogy. Drawing on his experiences in Malaya as a teacher in the British Colonial Service the author gives a sense of real… OL1386711W
The Garden of Evening Mists The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng "On a mountain above the clouds, in the central highlands of Malaya lived the man who had been the gardener of the Emperor of Japan.” Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard a… OL17375351W
Evening is the whole day Evening is the whole day Preeta Samarasan When Chellam, the family's rubber-plantation-bred servant girl, is dismissed for unnamed crimes, her banishment is the latest in a series of recent, precipitous losses that have shaken six-year-old A… OL17726979W
Kalimantaan Kalimantaan Godshalk C. S. It is 1850, and a young Englishman, Gideon Barr, arrives in Borneo. Within ten years he has conquered an area the size of England and Wales, ruling through armies of tribal headhunters. But the perso… OL17998716W
The ghost bride The ghost bride Yangsze Choo 1893, Malaysia. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. But fate intervenes when she receives an unusual proposal from the wealthy and powerful Lim family. They want… OL18181855W
Ten Ten Shamini Flint In 1986 Malaysia, as she worries about her parents' constant fighting, ardent soccer fan Maya, age eleven, trains herself and pulls together a team at her girls' school, despite soccer being a "boys'… OL20055889W
The Weight of Our Sky The Weight of Our Sky Hanna Alkaf Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threate… OL20150704W
Gift of Rain Gift of Rain Tan Twan Eng "Penang, 1939, sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese di… OL25649815W
Joss and gold Joss and gold Shirley Lim "Shirley Lim's first novel traces the unconventional development of an extended and unlikely family, moving from the newly born state of Malaysia to the heart of middle-class America to the capitalis… OL2938842W
Victory Victory Joseph Conrad Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the… OL38763W