Monkey Magic by Grant S. Clark
What on earth is causing the orangutans of Mukada Nature Reserve to fall sick and head to the coast? Romy Alexander—on a visit to Borneo with her scientist father—isn’t convinced by the park warden’s explanation that overcrowding is the cause of the problem. In a captivating and moving adventure, Romy comes to realise that she alone can help break a curse that has brought suffering to generations of orangutans.

  The Shallow Seas by Dawn Farnham
In this sequel to The Red Thread, Charlotte Macleod is nineteen, pregnant, and alone in 1842. She is fleeing a scandalous liaison with her married Chinese lover, a liaison which would bring ruin on him, herself, and her brother, Robert, the police chief of Singapore. When Tigran Manouk, forty, and the richest merchant in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, asks for her hand in marriage, the choice is no choice.


Nightmare in Bangkok
by Andy Botts

Andy Botts began his criminal activities as a young “car banger” in Hawaii before graduating to drug-dealing and trafficking. After a number of successful and highly lucrative drug runs to Asia, Botts was betrayed by a close associate. Arrested in Bangkok with 114 grams of heroin in his possession, he narrowly escaped execution by firing squad.

 
Thai Private Eye by Warren Olson
For over a decade, the intrepid Warren Olson trawled the mean streets of Bangkok and the lesser-known corners of the Land of Smiles. His brief? To uncover unsavoury truths about Thai bargirl lovers, philandering spouses, insurance fraud and scam artists of various stripes. He was a private eye prying into nooks and crannies few dared to explore and, along the way, he uncovered fascinating secrets of Thais and foreigners engaged in no good.


Pairing Wine with Asian Food
by Edwin Soon

Explore the most important theories of matching wine and Asian cuisine. Discover hundreds of inspired food and wine marriages from Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as from Burgher, Eurasian, and Nyonya cuisines.

 
Singapore Sling Shot by Andrew Grant
Former British agent Daniel Swann receives a call for help from his old friend Thai drug lord Sami Somsak. Sami’s stepbrother and his family have been murdered, and Sami’s brainchild, the $6-billion Intella Island project, Singapore’s largest offshore construction, is in jeopardy. When Swann attempts to retrieve vital evidence hidden in Fort Siloso, a bloody gun battle erupts on Sentosa island, and staid, quiet Singapore becomes a raging battlefield.

 

 

  29 Sept 2008 | "The Lies that Build a Marriage" shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2008
Suchen Christine Lim's The Lies that Build a Marriage is shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2008.
 
  4 October 2008 | Terry Tan signing books
Author Terry Tan will be signing copies of Stir-fried and not Shaken at Borders, Wheelock Place, at 3pm on Saturday 2008. See events page for more details.