Friday, 13 September, 2019 - A farmhouse just outside Cuspide, Benevento...Recently graduated, heartbroken, and desperate for La Dolce Vita, Sophie moves to the South of Italy in search of a new life. But when she meets the unhappily-married Federica and her androgynous cousin Volta, all are forced to confront questions of identity and belonging in the 'City of Ghosts' — where eyes are everywhere, and desire can be dangerous.More than a love story, This...

The Viridians have won the war and Octavia keeps her promise to Abriana and returns to Singapore. This time she’s accompanied by a trusted General who’s tasked to ensure that Octavia—the future ruler of Viridis—is safe. When the two BFFs are together, things don’t stay calm for long. In the sequel, a chance encounter with a wild boar is captured on video by a mysterious stranger and the footage ends up on the internet... and goes viral! Who is responsible and can the BFFs get the video dow...

Mikaela Kong is running out of time to save the world.Training has sharpened Mikaela's skills, but every hour spent wielding her iron cudgel pulls her further away from her K-pop dream. As pressure mounts and Mikaela struggles with her commitments, Yan Wang, the King of the Underworld, offers her a deal—an alliance that could save the Realms and help her reclaim her shot at stardom. Now, Mikaela must choose: join forces with a power that could tip the balance, or risk everything, i...

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Fiction with a Sense of Place Award.**Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize.'Remarkable . . .** her characters glow with life and humour' Ian McEwanSingapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actress and now a hack medium performing séances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets the priv...

Meet Abriana Yeo, 13, awkward and friendless. Meet Octavia Wu, a graceful teenage alien with superpowers. Forced to flee her home planet Viridis after an invasion by "The Others", another alien species, Octavia and her parents crash-land in the Singapore heartland.Pretending to be a foreign student, Octavia enters secondary one and befriends Abriana, who then helps her in her quest to find the Anteris, a missing element the alien family needs if they want to return to Viridis to he...

Secondary Three is turning out to be a great year for Abriana and Octavia. Abri’s standing at BTSGS receives a boost after she wins a major writing competition, and Octavia’s a rising star in the school’s tennis team. But when the BFFs encounter a strange waterspout—part of a barrage of severe weather events happening around the world—the girls suspect The Others are responsible. But their investigation is hampered by an accident that reignites a feud with the mean girls, while a schoolgir...

Primed to become Viridis’s future leader, the young Octavia Wuen must prove she is up to the task by winning the planet’s biggest event—the Quaturs Games. She aligns with others like herself, who have the gift of superpowers, but these new alliances are tested when the Games take a bad turn and the arrival of hostile beings threatens the planet’s survival.

Between family troubles and faltering dreams, Mikaela Kong rises with the help of dragons.When the prophecy signs appear sooner than expected, Mikaela Kong and her mentor Bai Yulong enlist the help of the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas to uncover the source of these disasters and delay the fateful battle. But with her K-pop dreams hanging by a thread, powerful villains closing in and a family crisis on the horizon, Mikaela must find the strength to face it all—before the final showd...

Weather events cause widespread destruction across Singapore. Everyone thinks it's because of climate change, but Abriana and Octavia know better: The Others are behind it. It’s up to the BFFs to stop them before more people get hurt. But when these powerful beings can morph into anyone—their classmates, their parents, their closest friends—the girls don’t know who to trust.

The Monkey King as you've never seen before.Mikaela Kong is a K-pop star in the making. One day, she will perform on the world stage—or so she hopes. But the arrival of Bai Yulong, a boy proclaiming to be from the Celestial Realm, throws her plan into a spin. As she joins forces with Yulong and secondary school wushu champion Wong Feixue, Mikaela must learn to wield her iron cudgel and save the world before she can get back on track to K-pop stardom.From bestselling author ...

Welcome, dear reader, to a book that starts with a confession: I don't like whiskey. Or at least, I thought I didn't. For years, I turned down glasses of whiskey, convinced that this famed spirit was simply not for me. The smell was too strong, the taste too harsh, and the burn too intense. Whiskey was, in my mind, an acquired taste that I had no desire to acquire.What to Expect in This BookIn the pages that follow, we'll delve into the fascinating world of whiskey. We'll s...

This study of Hong Kong cult director Wong Kar-wai provides an overview of his career and in-depth analysis of his seven feature films to date. Teo probes Wong's cinematic and literary influences - from Martin Scorsese to Haruki Murakami - yet shows how Wong transcends them all.