Presented in alphabetical order of author. Cut-off date is 1963
a) How many have you read?
b) How many sound like something you'd like to read?
c) Any mistakes/omissions?
This is for an upcoming book I am planning ;-)
Herman C AHRENS:
Give and Take, 1956
Archibald ALLISON
The Real Pirates of Borneo, 1898
William ALLISTER
A Handful of Rice, 1961
Eric AMBLER
Nightcomers, 1956
Passage of Arms, 1959
Liz ANAUGHTA
Blondes Prefer Tuans, 1934
Patrick ANDERSON
Snake Wine, a Singapore Episode, 1955
Sonia ANDERSON
Affair in Malaya, 1958
Malayan Interlude, 1961
O. ASHWELL
John Martin: Miner, 1914
H.C. ASTERLEY
Jungle Leech, 1935
Land of Short Shadows, 1932
K.E. Savage BAILEY
Squ-ee-umph, 1934
Hunter S. BANNER
The Clean Wind, 1931
Flamboyante, 1932
Hell's Harvest, 1934
The Mountain of Terror, 1928
Red Cobra, 1929
Terror Wave, 1935
Thus My Orient, 1947
C. BEATON-JONES
The Adventures of So Hi, 1950
David BINGLEY
Malayan Adventure, 1962
Gavin BLACK (pseudonym for Oswald Wynd)
Moon of the Tiger, 1958
The Gentle Pirate, 1951
Red Sun South, 1948
Suddenly at Singapore, 1961
A Walk in the Long Dark Night, 1962
Peter BLUNDELL (pseudonym for FN Butterworth)
The Banja Pirates, 1924
The Confessions of a Seaman, 1924
The Finger of Mr. Blee, 1913
The Little Brown Baby, 1925
Love Birds in the Coconuts, 1915
Princess of the Yellow Moon, 1922
The Sin of Godfrey Neil, 1920
Wanted: A Tortoise Shell, 1920
Pierre BOULLE
The Other Side of the Coin, 1958
Sacrilege in Malaya, 1959
The Test, 1957 (also published as White Man's Test)
FS BRERETON
With the Dyaks of Borneo, 1905
Lady Margaret BROOKE
Cauldron, 1926
Lost Property, 1930
Toys, 1923
Anthony BURGESS
The Malayan Trilogy (1964, but published individually from 1956-59).
Ellen BURGESS
Miss Hawkins: the Ocean Boarder, 1933
Alan CAILLOU (pseud. for Alan Lyle-Smythe)
Rampage, 1961
Sacha CARNEGIE
Sunset in the East, 1955
A. CATHERALL
Jackals of the Sea, 1955
D.B. CHIDSEY
Singapore Passage, 1957
CHIN Kee Oon
The Grand Illusion, 1961
Ma-Rai-Ee (later titled The Silent Enemy), 1952
James CLAVELL
King Rat, 1961
Valentine CLEMOW
My Candle Burns at Both Ends, 1947
Hugh CLIFFORD
A Freelance of Today, 1903
Saleh: A Prince of Malaya, 1926
Saleh: a Sequel, 1908 (I am not sure why this sequel appears several years before)
Since the Beginning: A Tale of an Eastern Land, 1898
R. COLLIER
The Lovely & The Damned, 1944
Norman COLLINS
Penang Appointment, 1934
(Mrs.) R.M. CONNOLLY
Bermadu: a Tale of Modern Malaya, 1911
Joan CONQUEST (Mrs Leonard Cook)
The Sale, 1930
Joseph CONRAD
Almayer's Folly, 1895
Lord Jim, 1900
An Outcast of the Islands, 1896
The Rescue, 1920
Arthur Owens COOKE
The Rajah's Ruby, 1929
Chester CORNISH (pseudonym for Alleyne Ireland)
Beating 'em to It; or. The Sultan and the Sausages, 1917
Mark CORRIGAN (pseud. for Norman Lee)
Singapore Downbeat, 1959
F. CRISP
The Chandu Men, 1955
F. de CROISSET
Lady in Malacca. 1936 (translated from La Dame De Malacca)
Clive DALTON (pseud. for F.S. Clark)
Always Afternoon, 1933
Island Spell, 1934
The Jesting Fates, 1938
Malay Boy, 1961
Malay Cause, 1962
Malay Island, 1962
Once to Every Man, 1935
The Spacious Days, 1939
Valiant Journey, 1935
White Pagan, 1932
Jessie A DAVIDSON
Dawn: a Romance of Malaya, 1926
Echo of a Bomb, 1957
Eyes of the Moon, 1927
The Fetters of Love, 1928
The Return of Gloria, 1926
Mark DERBY (pseud. for Harry Wilcox)
The Big Water, 1953
Echo of a Bomb, 1957
Five Nights in Singapore, 1961
Malayan Rose, 1951
Out of Asia Alive, 1954
Sun in the Hunter's Eyes, 1955
The Sunlit Ambush, 1955
The Tigress, 1959
Trail of Treasure, 1953
G.W. DE SILVA
Lupa, 1939
Only a Taxi Driver: a Romance of Singapore, 1939
The Princess of Malacca, 1938
Sulaiman goes to London: A Romance of the East, 1938
Michael EAST (pseud. for Morris L. West)
McCreary Moves in London, 1958
(Mrs) Egerton EASTWICK
The Governor's Wife, 1900
The Resident Councillor, 1898
Nina EPTON
The Golden Sword, 1957
Henri FAUCONNIER
The Soul of Malaya, 1931 (translated from Malaisie, 1930)
G. Manville FENN
Rajah of Dah, 1891
Middy and Ensign: or, a Tale of the Malay Peninsula, 1917
Trapped by Malays: a Tale of Bayonet and Kris, 1907 (PDF)
A.S. FLEISCHMAN
Malay Woman, 1954
W. Roberts FORAN
The Land of Fear, 1938
Gilbert FRANKAU
"Tid Apa" What Does it Matter?, 1915
William GARDINER
The Story of Pigou, a Malay Boy, 1922
SC GEORGE
The Bamboo Rod, 1951
Bright Moon in the Forest, 1946
Planter's Wife, 1946
The Wiles of Lim Quong, 1943
John GILBERT (pseud. for JB Harrison)
The Buff Envelope, 1958
(Major) Charles GILSON
The Cunning of Quang, 1935
G.M. GLASKIN
The Beach of Passionate Love, 1961
D. GODFREY
A Tale that is Told: a Romance, 1949
Louis GOLDING
No News from Helen, 1943
Leslie GREENER
No Time to Look Back, 1950
Ian GRIEG
The Tragedy of the Chinese Mine, 1930
Olive J. GROOM
Jungle Escape, 1957
Pelham GROOM (pseud.)
Latiff Investigates, 1960
HAN Su Yin
And the Rain My Drink..., 1956
Nourma HANFORD
Blood on the Leaves, 1953
HARUN Aminurrashid
A Malay Among the Portuguese, 1961 (translated from Panglima Awang, 1958)
The Kedayan Blood: A Borneo Story, 1960 (translated from Darah Kedayan, 1947)
Harry HARVEST
The Gay Sarong, 1926
Simon HARVESTER (pseud. for Henry Gibs)
The Golden Fear, 1957
An Hour Before Zero, 1959
The Yesterday Walkers, 1958
Michael HASTINGS
Coast of No Return, 1953
Death in Deep Green, 1952
The Man Who Came Back, 1957
Eric HAZELTON
Cocktail Alley, 1933
Exit Mrs Banks, 1935
Runaway Rascal, 1938
A Touch of the Sun, 1933
G.A. HENTY
Among Malay Pirates, 1899
In the Hands of the Malays, 1906
Hugh HICKLING
Festival of the Hungry Ghosts, 1957
A. HILLMAN & WW. Skeat
Salam the Mouse-Deer, 1938
David HORSLEY
The Time of the Locust, 1960
Mary HOWARD
The Men from Singapore: A Romance, 1946
Mingmeo HSU
Five Years in Love, 1959
Stanley Portal HYATT
The Black Pearl of Pieloo, a Tale of the Malay Seas, 1914
Nancy Ford INMAN
To the Ends of the Earth, 1952
Guy IRWIN
The Magician's Daughter, 1922
Edgar JEDSON
The Knight Errant, 1936
W.E. JOHNS
Biggles Delivers the Goods, 1946
Ray F KAUFFMAN
Coconut Wireless, 1948
Tom KAYE (pseud. for Barrington Kaye)
David, From Where He was Lying, 1962
Agnes Newton KEITH
Land Below the Wind, 1939
Three Come Home, 1948
White Man Returns, 1947
Mack KENTON
Ordeal of the Damned, 1951
Michael KEON
The Durian Tree, 1960
Frances Parkinson KEYES
Fielding's Folly, 1940
Guat-Hoom KHAN
The Jade is Green, 1960
James KINROSS
Eastern Gate, 1952
Eric LAMBERT
The Dark Backward, 1958
Rosalind LE FLEMING
Tomorrow to Fresh Woods, 1936
Peter LECKIE (pseud. for Peter Martin)
Eastern Slave, 1927
Malayan Nights, 1927
Norah LOFTS
Silver Nutmeg, 1947
Laurie E. LONG
Ernest Abaft Admidships, 1949
James MACDONALD
My Two Jungles, 1957
Alastair MACLEAN
South by Java Head, 1958
Mary MCMINNIES
The Flying Fox, 1956
F. Van Wyck MASON
Singapore Exile Murders, 1939
Joseph W.T. MASON
War Without Mercy
W.Somerset MAUGHAM
The Narrow Corner, 1932
Dorothy MEADE
Fatal Shadows, 1933
Violet Mary METHLEY
Spectre Jungle, 1961
Nicholas MONSARRAT
The White Rajah, 1961
Donald MOORE
The Sumatra, 1959
Isabel MOUNTAIN
A Maiden in Malaya, 1919
D. NABARRO
North from Singapore, 1956
M.P. O'CONNOR
Vile Repose, 1950
Jiro OSARAGI
Homecoming, 1955 (translated from Japanese)
Dorothy OSBORNE
Kanoka of the Pirates, 1958
Marion OSMOND
The Chinese Bungalow, 1923
Jungle Wallah, 1931
The Owl and the Moon, 1922
The Planter's Wife, 1927
Pierre Steplon Robert PAYNE
David and Anna, 1947
Singapore River, 1942
M. PEREIRA
River Grown Deep, 1959
W.D. PEREIRA
Serene Retreat, 1957
J.S. PHILLIPS
Malay Adventure, 1937
J. PLAYFAIR
The Nettlebed, 1952
Hal PORTER
A Handful of Pennies, 1958
C.C. REID
The Greatest Game, 1930
Eileen Arnott ROBERTSON
Four Frightened People, 1931
Three Came Unarmed, 1929
Own RUTTER
Chandu, 1913
The Pirate Wind, 1920
Sepia, 1926 (reprinted as Passion Fruit, 1934)
Denis & Claude SANTRY
Salubrious Singapore, 1920
Paul SCOTT
The Chinese Love Pavilion, 1960
Pabitra K. SEN-GUPTA
Rainbow Over Malaya, 1945
George SHEEN
Malayan Story, 1957
John SHERWOOD
Two Died in Singapore, 1954
Nevil SHUTE
Round the Bend, 1951
A Town Like Alice, 1950 (also published as The Legacy)
Alan SILLITOE
Key to the Door, 1961
Katherine SIM
Black Rice, 1959
The Jungle Ends Here, 1961
Malacca Boy, 1957
The Moon at My Feet, 1959
John SLIMMING
In Fear of Silence, 1959
Homer W. SMITH
End of an Illusion, 1935
Anna SOFTLY
The White Garland, 1958
Robert STANDISH (pseud. for D.G. Gerahty)
Follow the Seventh Man, 1950
Storm Centre, 1951
Clarence STRATTON
In Singapore. The Story of a Strange Search, 1932
John SYKES
The Colonial, 1962
Malcom TANNACK
Uneasy Money, 1957
Alan THOMAS
The Death of Lawrence Viving, 1929
E.P. THORNE
Red Bamboo, 1954
H.M. TOMLINSON
Galleon's Reach, 1927
Elleston TREVOR (pseud. for Trevor Dudley-Smith)
The Burning Shore, 1961
James R. ULLMAN
Windom's Way, 1952
E.C. VIVIAN
The Tale of Fleur, 1930
W. Melville WACE
Yolande of Johore, 1929
H. WEALE
Winter is Past, 1955 (Mills & Boon!!)
C. WHITE
Seven Tickets to Singapore, 1941
R. WILDMAN
The Panglima Muda, a Romance of Malaya, 1894
G.P. WILLIS and M.P. O'connor
It Began in Singapore, 1958
Escape at Dawn, 1961
Roswell WILLIAMS (pseud. for Frank Owen)
Loves of Loh Fah, 1936
Dale WILMER (pseud.)
Jungle Heat, 1954
D.C. WILSON
Blue Jungle, 1928
Hector WINTLE
The Final Victory, `1935
John Vectic Carew WYLLIE
Goodly Seed, 1953
Susan YORKE
Agency House, 1962
Captain China, 1961 (this is the British title; listed in the US as Capitan China)
Norma YOUNGBERG
Tiger of Bitter Valley, 1957
List edited from a much longer piece by William R. Roff in JMBRAS Vol. 55. Special thanks to Guat!!
11 comments:
Amazing list! How abt Isabella bird's The Golden Chersonese?
She travelled Through Malaya and Singapore in the 1800s
That is non-fiction. This list is only for novels ;-)
I am happy to announce that I have collected 17 of the books so far :-)
Great list, and lots of food for thought there. A couple more for you: Dreamer Awake by Michael P O'Connor (1946, set in Ireland and Borneo), and loads more by Owen Rutter (Golden Rain comes to mind: see his Wikipedia page for other titles). Are you restricting yourself just to novels, or are you dealing with short stories as well? I know of collections by Maxwell Hall and Michael P. O'Connor, on top of the many written by W. Somerset Maugham.
Further to my last comment: how about Biggles in Borneo by W E Johns (1943)? The three Agnes Newton Keith books you list are not novels - they are all memoirs based on her time in North Borneo (now Sabah). The only novel she wrote was Beloved Exiles, which was published in 1972 so misses your cut-off point. It's set in North Borneo and is clearly autobiographical to some extent (Author comes to North Borneo, marries an Englishman who has a local mistress and child; she and her husband are interned by the Japanese etc). There's also a novel by Oscar Cook The Second Wave, 1930 or earlier, which was also published in Dutch (Gij zult niet); he also published lots of short stories (with a supernatural bent) set in North Borneo.
Me again. I'm researching various aspects of North Borneo history and came across a 1935 newspaper a/c of a travel book that deals with Malaysia (Junglemania by Dr Arthur Torrance) being withdrawn from sale in the UK because of plagiarism of the novel Sepia (later published as Passion Fruit) by Owen Rutter. The ref is The Straits Times 9 Aug 1935 page 18.
My Grandfather was Peter Martin Leckie author of Malayan Nights and Eastern Slave. Does anyone know where to find a copy or copies of these books?
Elizabeth
hey Amir,
which ones have you got already?
awesome list boss!
cheers,
ilann
The ones I have are in bold. 22 so far. Yes, have been buying alphabetically!
great!
love obsessive compulsive peoples.
ilann
Hi Amir Wow, you've been busy-I have read only a few, not as many as you for sure!! The three Agnes Newton Keith's you mention are not novels-great reads though, very gripping autobiographical accounts of her life in Sabah. Cheers Ibrahim
Oh there are, of course, masses more, Amir. I am not sitting by my fiction bookshelf at the moment, but ones I can think of offhand are Anthony Crockett's The Perminter Fence, which I'm reading at the moment and will publish a review shortly on The Penang Bookshelf Blog. There's also Vicki Baum's The Weeping Wood that I'm told is the definitive novel on the rubber industry. WE Bailey's Island of Love and Death is an unusual story about a British down and out in Singapore. That's enough for tonight! William
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