South East Asia

The story of a northern village during the American War in Vietnam, where all the young men have left to fight, and the loved ones left behind labor through grief...

A chance meeting with a witchdoctor changes a woman's fate leading to a miraculous pregnancy, but her unborn child is targeted by enemy shamansIn late-19th century Tana Toraja, Indonesia, Minah,...

Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2018Shortlisted for the NUS Singapore History Prize 2021Shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title Siew Li leaves her husband and young...

A gripping debut gothic horror novel set in 1980s Philippines, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic 'One of the best horror books of the year.' Darcy Coates 'A stunning gothic...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION‘A mighty achievement’ OCEAN VUONG‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR‘Powerful’ SUNDAY TIMESAn extraordinary story of the journey of one young...

A young journalist, reeling from loss, investigates a mysterious cult in the California redwoods, only to be drawn in by its charismatic leader in this addictive novel that asks why...

For readers of Small Island by Andrea Levy and Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, Bethnal Green vividly brings to life the experiences of women who came from across the world to...

One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die. Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men...

Based on the true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, The Sorrow of War is revered as the 'All Quiet on the Western Front for our era'.Kien's job is...

Co-Winner of the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeWinner of the 2022 Singapore Book Award for Best Literary Work Miss Cassidy is no ordinary governess.She can tutor the most wayward child,...

 A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEEThe international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his generation' Financial...

A young woman, torn between two cultures, belonging to neither. A family, torn apart by a war they had no choice about. Kieu calls herself Kim because it's easier for...

They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk among us... In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a...

Moving between cities and generations, Amma follows three women on very different paths, against a backdrop of shifting cultures. As circumstance and misunderstanding force them apart, it will take the most profound love...

*Shortlisted for the Small Press Network 2021 Book of the Year Award* The Tiniest House of Time is more than a family saga, ranging across continents and decades seamlessly, from...

Alan Noland discovers his father's memoirs about the atrocities he committed in the Dutch East Indies during the war with Japan – and Alan begins to understand how war transformed...

An NPR Best Book of the YearA CrimeReads Historical Fiction Best Book of the Year At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures...

Haunted by a childhood tragedy, a man looks back on his past and rediscovers a new meaning to his life. In The Dogs, Guan, a middle-aged man, decides to move...

Translated by Muhammad Haji A history of the Malay Peninsula and the islands of the Archipelago The Genealogy of Kings (Malay — Sulalat al-Salatin or Sejarah Melayu, is a literary...

In writing her sister Annie's eulogy, Kathy reflects on the complexities that shaped their family and their identities. It’s winter in Logan, south-east Queensland, and still warm enough to sleep...

He gave up happiness for duty but destiny will not let him go. After twenty years of searching, King Waluyo finally gets his son back. He cannot understand why his...

Translated by Tulachandra The story of a young modern Siamese girl and her quest for true love, Prisna Volume 1 and Volume 2 take place in 1938 in Phra Nakhon,...

Translated by Tulachandra The story of a young modern Siamese girl and her quest for true love, Prisna Volume 1and Volume 2 take place in 1938 in Phra Nakhon, Thailand,...

An unforgettable novel about sisterhood, familial duties and love.The Betrayed tells the story of two sisters who love the same man. As dictatorship and political upheaval ravage the Philippines, the...

A tale of love and loss, scarring and healing, set against the 2002 Bali bombing in the present, Singapore's largest fire in the past, and a buried secret between.Lee Yang...

A supernatural expose of a past system that still has a tight grip on contemporary Singapore and Malaysia.It's August of 1931 in Singapore, sixteen-year-old Lim Mei Mei (Ah Mei) arrives...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey...

The first novel from the internationally bestselling, Booker-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Penang, 1939. Being half Chinese and half English, Philip Hutton...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION‘A mighty achievement’ OCEAN VUONG‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR‘Powerful’ SUNDAY TIMESAn extraordinary story of the journey of one young...

This “novel of extraordinary humanity” (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing) from New York Times bestselling author Vaddey Ratner reveals “the endless ways that families can...

A New York Times Editor's Choice An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family's battle to survive. Set against the backdrop of the Viet Nam War,...

A spellbinding literary debut set in Malaysia exploring family relationships, love and warMary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. Sharp-tongued and ferocious, Durga hopes simply to endure her...

A Sumatran Odyssey Translated by Jennifer LindsayRejection is an epic family drama by Ashadi Siregar set against the turbulent years following Indonesia's independence.The story follows Tondi who as a young...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZETeoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about...

'A beautiful exploration of family, love and loss across the generations. Fresh, fun... I didn't want it to end.' Gemma ChanHow far would you travel to find a love lost...

The third novel from the Booker-shortlisted author exploring love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn...

A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this...

A “gripping historical adventure” of ancient Vietnam based on the true story of two warrior sisters who raised an army of women to overthrow the Han Chinese and rule as...

The heart-rending story of survival and endurance in Japanese-occupied Singapore Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only three survivors, one...

FOR FANS OF CELESTE NG and MIN JIN LEE. 'A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle 'Spellbinding and intricately layered' E.M. Tran 'A gripping tale about motherhood' Heat 'This novel has everything you want' Meng...

Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought...

Translated by Dias Novita WuriA dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman — whoever you are, wherever you are,...

Translated by YZ Chin By one of Southeast Asia’s most exciting writers, The Age of Goodbyes is a wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace...

Feverishly energetic and playfully creepy, an unforgettable debut that hurtles through the ghostly secrets of Vietnamese history Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are...

1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way. Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party...

A disillusioned revolutionist grappling with who he was and who he has become in disguise, set in one of the most turbulent times in modern Thailand history A story told...

An evocative novel set in 1930s Indochine about an American who journeys there in the name of family fortune, the glamorous world she finds herself in — and the truth...

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos — and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz...

A chronicle of the decline and fall of a powerful family that's ruled by greed and destiny Set in a fictional province in the Philippines, the novel tells the story...

WINNER OF THE 2024 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE A playful, ambitious...