Books by Chan Ling Yap

Born in Kuala Lumpur, Chan Ling Yap was educated in Malaysia and subsequently in England where she obtained a PhD in Economics. She lectured at the University of Malaya before joining the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, where she worked for nearly two decades. She now lives in the UK with her husband and two grown-up children. A widely published author of various textbooks and technical papers, her foray into fiction, Sweet Offerings, was highly praised for its beautiful evocation of Asia. Bitter-Sweet Harvest, her second novel, was nominated for "Popular-The Star Readers' Choice Awards" 2012 in Malaysia and reviewed as "One of Four Books You Won't Want to Put Down" by Cosmopolitan Singapore, 2012. New Beginnings, a historical fiction set in the mid-1800s in China and Malaya, is her third novel. It won first prize in the "Popular-The Star Readers' Choice Awards" in 2014. Her latest novel, Where the Sunrise is Red, is set during the Emergency period in 1950s Malaya. It is also the winner of the "Popular-The Star Readers' Choice Awards" in 2019.