Welcome to Jacaranda Agency

Jacaranda is a boutique literary agency working out of Singapore, India, and the UK. We represent a diverse list of fiction and non-fiction from across Asia, and in particular a growing list of fiction from South East Asia. Our list includes authors from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. We also represent many authors from further afield, including from the US, UK, Kenya, and Australia, making us a truly international agency. More recently we have begun building a small , curated list of fiction in translation from South East Asia. We also represent a small number of translators.

Rivers Remember is a three-year investigative project that doesn’t just document the how and why of the flood
that wrecked the city. It places the 2015 flood and floods bygone against the physical and cultural landscape of
Chennai and desperately worries about its future. It looks at the city of Chennai and those who make this pattinam
their home with affection, wit and exasperation.

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Rivers Remember
Krupa Ge
Synopsis
“It was always the same dream, a dream that began with darkness and blood.”
When Assistant Commissioner of Police Aditi Kashyap is called upon to solve a gruesome triple-homicide in
a Mumbai suburb, she is dragged into terrifying world of the Saimhas – werelions - who have lived alongside
humans, hiding amongst them since ancient times.

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Beast
Krishna Udayasankar

All rights except Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia
Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as close as sisters can be. Growing up in a wealthy, powerful and
sometimes treacherous family, they've relied on each other for support and confidence. Now, though,
Gwendolyn is lying in a coma, the sole survivor
of Estella's poisoning of their whole family. What in their dark and complicated past has brought them to this point?

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Under Your WIngs
Tiffany Tsao
This is the story of Lisa Ray.
Accidental actor. Poet. Writer. Activist. Seeker.
The book is a first person account of a rich and varied life experience, honest and deeply moving. Funny and
charming. And always real. In your face, gut- wrenchingly real.

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Close to the Bone
Lisa Ray
The famous dancer Madhavi is at the court of the Chera King for a grand performance. The King’s first son
Shenguttuvan, the crown prince of the Cheras, is getting ready for his engagement to a Velir princess. There is celebration in the air.

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The Prince
Samhita Arni
A Brief History of Humankind is an insight into the ancient history of mankind. According to the author, human
history has been shaped by three major revolutions namely, ‘The Cognitive Revolution’, ‘ The Agricultural Revolution’
and ‘The Scientific Revolution’. He feels that mankind has been empowered to create and connect around ideas
that do not have a physical existence.

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Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari