The Wireless War

The Wireless War: Singapore · station 13 of 13

Singapore

Mei Ling, 11 · a shophouse in Singapore · 1939–45

A shophouse girl in a fortress that falls.

  • Keepsake: a carved wooden top
  • Stands alone
  • Coming soon

The books

A trilogy and a companion novella

Book One

The Impregnable Place

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Book Two

What Keeps Standing

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Book Three

The Thing She Kept True

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Prequel novella

The Fortress Year

Coming soon

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Tune the wireless to Singapore

Inside the story

The people and places

The people and places of Singapore open here when its first book does.

For parents, teachers and librarians

What is in the books, who they are for, and a copy of the England companion novella to read together.

Read the note for grown-ups