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  • Sugar

    An Ethnographic Novel

    by Edward Narain, Tarryn Phillips ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    In Suva, the bustling capital of Fiji, a tropical cyclone is looming. In this city of dazzling contradictions, three strangers are living worlds apart. Hannah is a young Australian expat who volunteers at a local health organization while leading a heady life of house parties and weekend getaways. Isikeli is a teenager from the informal settlement who has given up on his childhood dream of playing ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • The Godfather of Kathmandu

    A Royal Thai Detective Novel (4)

    by John Burdett ...
    Series Book 4 - Royal Thai Detective Novels
    Sonchai Jitpleecheep—John Burdett’s inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul—is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru.There are, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Vulture Peak

    A Royal Thai Detective Novel (5)

    by John Burdett ...
    Series Book 5 - Royal Thai Detective Novels
    Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact—more or less—despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok. But for his newest assignment, everything he knows about his city—and himself—will be a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Batshit Seven

    by Sheung-King ...
    ***WINNER OF THE 2024 WRITERS' TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON FICTION PRIZE*From Governor General's Award-nominated author Sheung-King comes a novel about a millennial living through the Hong Kong protests, as he struggles to make sense of modern life and the parts of himself that just won’t gel.**Glen Wu (aka Glue) couldn’t care less about his job. He’s returned to Hong Kong, the city he grew up in, and he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nine Yard Sarees: a short story cycle

    by Prasanthi Ram ...
    Nine Yard Sarees is a multigenerational portrait of a fictional Tamil Brahmin family. Comprising eleven interlinked stories, this short story cycle traces the lives of nine women from 1950 all the way to 2019, shedding light on the community and its evolution through the decades. As the stories take us from India to Singapore, Australia and even America, we follow the experiences of the women in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Ageing Disgracefully

    by Colin Cotterill ...
    Ageing Disgracefully is a delightful collection of short stories that takes a humorous and life-affirming look at lives of people who, though considerably advanced in years, are still behaving very, very naughtily. With a keen eye for human foibles and a wicked sense of humor, Colin Cotterill has collected and illustrated—with words and drawings—the colorful lives of disreputable elders found ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Saint Richard Parker

    His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia

    by Merlin Franco ...
    Racism, prejudice, commodified spirituality—in this absurdist satire, Merlin Franco takes potshots at the maladies plaguing South and Southeast Asia"…a Hunter S Thompson for the 21st Century. Perfect for people who hated Eat Pray Love."—Hannah Hill, Goodreads"Think Travels with Charley, minus dog."—IndieReader"A sharp and clever satire."—Bookbub"This novel shines in a first-person pe... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How We Live Now: Stories of Daily Living

    Edited by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow ...
    How We Live Now offers a multi-faceted, multi-voiced view of contemporary life in Singapore: its comforts and conflicts, personal tragedies and social tensions, and also opportunities for joy, hope and empathy.Featuring an exciting ensemble of both established and new writers, the stories invite readers to think seriously about the world around them, with urgent contemporary challenges such as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Black Marks on the White Page

    by Witi Ihimaera, Tina Makereti ...
    A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak or we find ourselves in a not-too-distant future. Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st century stories of Maori and Pasifika writers from all over the world. Vibrant, provocative and ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories (Volume Five)

    by Balli Kaur Jaswal, Jason Erik Lundberg ...
    Series Book 5 - Best New Singaporean Short Stories
    The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2019 and 2020, selected by guest editor Balli Kaur Jaswal from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Growing Up Indian in Australia

    Edited by Aarti Betigeri ...
    Vibrant, moving and diverse stories of shape-shifting between cultures.'To be Indian growing up in Australia is to tread the narrow line between here and there, to constantly code-switch and navigate between filling the needs and aspirations of your family, your community – and yourself.''Indian-Australian' is not a one-size-fits-all descriptor. Given the depth and richness of diversity of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories (Volume Two)

    by Jason Erik Lundberg ...
    Series Book 2 - Best New Singaporean Short Stories
    The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two gathers twenty-four of the finest stories from Singaporean writers published in 2013 and 2014, selected from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections. These pieces examine life in Singapore, as well as beyond its borders to Toronto, California, Shanghai, Andhra Pradesh, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD