Monsoon Books (publishing under the monsoon imprint) is an independent

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established in Singapore in 2002 and incorporated in the United Kingdom in 2016. Monsoon Books is based in Burrough Court in

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, UK. Established by

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Philip Tatham, Monsoon Books publishes English-language

fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditi ...

(general and literary) and narrative

nonfiction Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with be ...

(

biography A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or ...

and

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memoir A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobi ...

true crime True crime is a nonfiction literary, podcast, and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people associated with and affected by criminal events. The crimes most commonly include murder; about 40 per ...

travelog The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern perio ...

and

literary journalism Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction or literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contra ...

), with Asian, particularly Southeast Asian, themes. It publishes works set in ingapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, India, China, Japan, Brunei, Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar. Authors published by Monsoon Books include Nigel Barley (anthropologist), Nigel Barley, Stephen Leather, Warren Olson, Su-Chen Christine Lim, David McMillan (smuggler), Jack Reynolds, Pieter Wilhelm,

Robert Yeo Robert Yeo (born Robert Yeo Cheng Chuan; 1940) is a Singaporean poet, playwright and novelist. Career Yeo is a retired lecturer of the National Institute of Education and Nanyang Technological University. In 2011, he is a teacher of creative wri ...

Cyril Wong Cyril Wong (; born 27 June 1977) is a poet, fiction author and literary critic. Biography Born in 1977, Cyril Wong attended Saint Patrick's School, Singapore, and Temasek Junior College, before completing a doctoral degree in English literature ...

Felix Cheong Felix Cheong is a Singaporean author and poet. Cheong has written two young adult fiction books used as part of a national education campaign – ''The Call From Crying House'' () and its sequel, ''The Woman In The Last Carriage'' (). Cheong ...

and Kirpal Singh. Monsoon Books is a member of the

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UK.

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External links

Monsoon Books website
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