South East Asia

Translated by Mui Poopoksakul 'Evocative, erudite, and often very funny stories of Bangkok life.'— The Guardian A 'Book to Look Out For' by The Guardian and BuzzFeed, The Sad Part...

A heart-warming collection of stories featuring Merdeka Generation Seniors who had lived through the challenging development of pre-independent Singapore to its present day; and yet are now facing new challengesThis...

WELCOME TO VIRTUAL CENTRE, WHERE THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE CONVERGE. A collection of science fiction that borders on science possible, Virtual Centre and Other Science Fiction Stories brings to...

A Collection of Short Stories The silent interplay between beauty and darkness, pain and healing. In this collection of short stories, Singapore Literature Prize-winner Danielle Lim probes the unseen changes...

20 shadowy tales from Asia's Stephen King Unconfined to a single theme, this new collection of twenty short stories by Halim offers five distinct worlds. The paranormal mysteries from 'the...

Translated by Tiffany TsaoHappy Stories, Mostly is a playful, charged and tender collection of twelve stories – a blend of speculative fiction and dark absurdism, often drawing on Norman Erikson...

Lake Malibu and other stories is a collection of short stories about various people from a small Malaysian town connected by a theme of escapism. Through the interlinked stories, we...

Journey through enchanted realms inhabited by dragons, vampires and incorrigible grandmothers, drawn from East Asian and Malaysian myth and folklore, in Zen Cho's magical Spirits Abroad . . . ‘A joy to...

A collection of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, epics, legends, wonder and magic tales from all around Southeast AsiaNusantara: A Sea of Tales is the most comprehensive collection of folk...

Short stories set in contemporary Malaysia and Singapore, depicting the lives of the lonely, desperate and heartbroken in their morally-subjective worlds.Two figures sit in a car, waiting to commit a...

WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 'Breathtaking' — Elle'Powerhouses of feeling and depth' — Mary Gaitskill'Sharp and vital' — Daisy Johnson'Excellent' — Margaret Atwood An ex-boxer turned nail salon worker...

‘Fortunes rise and fall. One day you have a lucky ticket and get a dinner so good and you eat so much that you think you’ll never need to eat...

In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound...

Award-winning stories and tales about the rites of passage in our lives-love and loss, gladness and grief, departure and return-written in the realistic and fabulist modes A young boy and...

Finely textured, humane and deeply relevant, these stories of love, loss, and the politics of identity, race, and belonging, challenge comfortable conventions about ourselves. In turn wry and humorous, poignant...

An anthology of novella and short stories with supernatural elements based on Malaysia's multi-culture beliefs and myths The Muse and Other Stories is a collection of dark stories from the...

Stories about women of Singapore, exiles and dreamers, lovers and seekers of the path Chickpeas to Cook is the story of the woman of the tribe, women from some of...

Fifteen nightmarish tales from the award-winning Prince of Darkness Skeletons Await ... Bones jangling as they grinningly emerge. Meet a hungry old woman who roasts her victims; a grieving man...

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the...