London. 4th Estate. 2020. Reprint. 326pp, 19.7 x 12.8cm. A very good paperback copy. "A murderer's confession - devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable - which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny. Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and..... More
Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press. 1993. xviii + 225pp, paperback. "One of the most able and distinguished administrators ever to come to Malaya, Hugh Clifford was also a gifted writer. he was at the susceptible age of seventeen when he first arrived in the country and both his early sympathies..... More
Melbourne. Scribe. 2016. Map, 447pp, 19.7 x 13cm. A very good paperback copy. "Penang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip shows his new friend around..... More
