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A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute
Originally published as: The LegacyTells of a young woman who survived a Japanese death march in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her - even at the cost of his life....
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The Harmony Silk Factory
by Tash Aw
A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman -- a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer -- whose shop house, The... (more)
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The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his... (more)
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Out in the Midday Sun: The British in Malaya 1880-1960
by Margaret Shennan
The story of British Malaya, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain's colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two World Wars, economic depression and diaspora, revealing the attitudes of the diverse quixotic characters of this now quite vanished world. The British came as... (more)
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And the Rain My Drink
by Han Suyin
It is 1948 and the British in Malaya are struggling to put down a Communist uprising and deal with rising nationalism in the colony. Chinese girl Suyin falls in love with a British police officer and is able to see both sides of the war but she sympathizes more with the Communist guerrillas and is critical of the British colonials. A much-loved classic and an important work in the canon of Singapore literature.
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The Long Day Wanes
A Malayan Trilogy
by Anthony Burgess
A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism. Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and... (more)
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Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman
by Bryan Moynahan
Brought up in a rural vicarage surrounded by fells, falcons and ferrets, Freddy Spencer Chapman acquired a deep love of nature and became fascinated by danger' during childhood. Thirty years later, as an SOE-trained guerrilla soldier of exceptional ability and courage, the orphan boy would prove to be one of the British army's deadliest agents. In 1941 Chapman was dispatched to Singapore to train British... (more)
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Murder on the Verandah
by Eric Lawlor
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The Jungle is Neutral
A Soldier's Two-Year Escape from the Japanese Army
by F. Spencer Chapman
THE JUNGLE IS NEUTRAL makes The Bridge Over the River Kwai look like a tussle in a schoolyard. F. SPENCER CHAPMAN, the book's unflappable author, narrates with typical British aplomb an amazing tale of four years spent as a guerrilla in the jungle, haranguing the Japanese in occupied Malaysia. Traveling sometimes by bicycle and motorcycle, rarely by truck, and mainly in dugouts, on foot, and often on his... (more)
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The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (Volume I & Volume II)
by W. Somerset Maugham
Two volume set of The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham including: Volume 1; East and West, 955 pages, 30 stories. Volume 2; The World Over, 681 pages, 61 stories.
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The Great Exotic Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham
by W. Somerset Maugham
A generous anthology of fiction by the enduringly popular master Somerset Maugham, featuring in full and for the first time in one volume The Moon and the Sixpence Painted Veil, and The Magician, plus five major stories. From the caf society of Paris to the British colony of Hong Kong to the lush tropical island of Tahiti, you can travel half the world in this first-time-ever collection of three of the novels that... (more)
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Kalimantaan
by C. S. Godshalk
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A Writer's Notebook (Vintage International)
by W. Somerset Maugham
Filled with keen observations, autobiographical notes, and the seeds of many of Maugham's greatest works, A Writer's Notebook is a unique and exhilarating look into a great writer's mind at work. From nearly five decades, Somerset Maugham recorded an intimate journal. In it we see the budding of his incomparable vision and his remarkable career as a writer. Covering the years from his time as a youthful... (more)
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The letter and other stories. -- II
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Tanamera
by Noel Barber
The story of two lovers and two great dynasties - one British, the other Chinese - of the society that separated them and the passion that bound them.
The Golden Khersonese: Studies in the Historical Geography of the Malay Peninsula before A.D. 1500Paul Wheatley
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The Golden Khersonese: Studies in the Historical Geography of the Malay Peninsula before A.D. 1500
by Paul Wheatley
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Guests of the Emperor
by Janice Young Brooks
Author Janice Young Brooks has published several historical novels, including Seventrees, Glory, and Guests of the Emperor, which was made into a television movie of the week entitled Silent Cries.Guests of the EmperorPrivileged and innocent, they thought they were protected from the ravages of the Second World War. But when Singapore fell early to the Japanese, there was no escape and hundreds of... (more)
Malayan geographies for todayG. E. D Lewis
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Malayan geographies for today
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The long, long war;: The emergency in Malaya, 1948-1960
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The long, long war;: The emergency in Malaya, 1948-1960
In pursuit of mountain rats: The Communist insurrection in MalayaAnthony Short
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In pursuit of mountain rats: The Communist insurrection in Malaya
by Anthony Short