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  • The Teardrop Story Woman

    by Catherine Lim ...
    A story set in 50's Malaya at the height of the communist guerilla activity. This is a backdrop for a story of love, passion, desire and duty as a beautiful married chinese women, Mei Kwei, falls in love with a priest who saves the woman caught with Mei's husband from public embarrassment. ... Read more

    Was $3.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • The Song of Silver Frond

    by Catherine Lim ...
    An exotic, beguiling love story set in 1950s Singapore.'It was a special protection from the gods that Silver Frond's beauty manifested itself only after the barbarians had left? A beautiful child-woman, in that intriguing in-between stage when people could not tell where innocence ended and seductiveness began, and were charmed by both.'One morning in Singapore more than fifty years ago, The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Following The Wrong God Home

    by Catherine Lim ...
    A wonderful new novel from Catherine Lim - a modern love story of east meets west set in the author's native Singapore.Never before has Yin Ling appeared in such splendour. Perched in the bridal car with her mother-in-law to be, in layers of unaccustomed make-up, bedecked with the jewels of her fiance's family, she is about to marry into one of the richest and most influential clans in Singapore. ... Read more

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  • The Bondmaid

    by Catherine Lim ...
    A little girl - Han - is sold, aged four, as a bondmaid or slave into the House of Wu, where she grows up and falls in love with the young heir. But the idyll of childhood attachment turns into a nightmare as Han, beautiful, proud and uncompromisingly loyal, struggles against the forces of tradition and tyranny in a large household where patriarchs and matriarchs wield inexorable power, lustful ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    A Leap of Love

    by Catherine Lim ...
    Narrated by Millicent Wong ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 32 min

    There is a wonderful ancient Western tradition that allows a woman to propose to a man – but only on 29 February. Only once every four years, in a leap year. On such a momentous day, late one morning in modern day Singapore, young and beautiful Li-ann catches sight of Jeremy for the first time in a busy part of town. She realises with a start that he is her dream man and makes the move allowed by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    They Do Return ... But Gently Lead Them Back

    by Catherine Lim ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Lim ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Marshall Cavendish Classics

    Unabridged

    2 hours 54 min

    A boy is given a girl's name so that he can escape the attention of malignant ghouls. A devout Catholic priest is suspected of hanky-panky with a submissive Chinese wife when she gives birth to an albino child. A young girl student dies before her English examinations, but still manages to write an out-of-point essay for the Cambridge Syndicate. From societal superstitions and the imagination come ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Fallen into the Pit

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Series Book 1 - The Felse Investigations
    In this "hypnotically good" debut, a Nazi murdered in an English village sets Sergeant Felse and his son on an investigation few want solved ( Boston Sunday Globe ).Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorIt is 1952, and the shadow of World War II still lies over the green fields of the small village of Comerford on the Welsh borders. When ex-prisoner of war Helmut Schauffler is ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Dark Entries

    by Robert Aickman ...
    For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen**Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream.Dark Entries** was first published in 1964 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

    by Lu Xun ...
    Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun. Lu Xun (1881–1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.The Complete Short Stories of Lu Xun where included in ... Read more

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  • Murder on Paradise Island

    A Golden Age Mystery

    by Robin Forsythe ...
    “Take my advice; from to-day keep your own counsel. Listen to everything, disclose nothing. Avoid being alone. Come to me if you’re in doubt about anything or feel you scent danger. I can assure you we both live in danger.”Geoffrey Mayne is in need of some serious r’n’r after studying intensively for his bar exams in London. A luxurious Pacific island cruise seems just the ticket, especially when ... Read more

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  • Fear

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Finding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother predictable after eight years of marriage, Irene Wagner brings a little excitement into it by starting an affair with a rising young pianist. Her lover’s former mistress begins blackmailing her, threatening to give her secret away to her husband. Irene is soon in the grip of agonizing fear.Written in the spring of 1913, and first ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Maiden Voyage

    by Denton Wlech ...
    Maiden Voyage is Denton Welch's debut novel, a frankly autobiographical account of a short period in his life when - at the age of 16 - he ran away from his English boarding school, before being sent back to Shanghai to live with his businessman father. "Trembling with sex", is how Alan Bennett wonderfully describes Maiden Voyage; and as well as portraying so acutely the passions and nameless ... Read more

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