The adventure starts here. Meet Miss Cassidy as she enters 1890s Singapore – the sounds, the people, the places… and the monsters.
Our adventure starts in Bendemeer House, with a mysterious malevolent entity floating through the banana trees… but Miss Cassidy is more than meets the eye. When she ends up as English tutoress in a wealthy Chinese home however, she might have just met her match in its owner, the Chinese merchant (and widower) Mr Kay Wing Tong.
Co-winner of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2021, and published by Epigram Books in 2021. It also won Best Literary Work at the Singapore Book Awards and has been republished in the UK, U.S, Italy and Albania so far.
In 2024, Pushkin ONE brought Miss Cassidy to her very own British shores! The beautiful banner images you see on this page are from Pushkin’s hardcover edition, which has also been adapted by Harper Perennial for the U.S edition, published September 2025!
The Pushkin ONE paperback edition (seen here) is also available in Australia / Asia Pacific with Allen & Unwin.
Mary Poppins Meets Malayan Momok, now in your neighbourhood…
THE ENIGMATIC MADAM INGRAM
Continuing the tale, in the Enigmatic Madam Ingram you’ll meet Miss Cassidy’s terrifying nemesis – the cursed bomoh of the Malay Archipelago, Bungadarah.
How did Miss Cassidy end up in Singapore? How is she connected to the mysterious and terrifying Rose Ingram, hailing from an unnamed island on the Malay Archipelago, who offers… special services… to ladies in tricky circumstances?
And why does her daughter Letty never age?
The Enigmatic Madam Ingram was shortlisted for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize in 2023, nominated for the Dublin Literary Award 2025, for Best Literary Work in the Singapore Book Awards, and the Popular Reader’s Choice Award
The Enigmatic Madam Ingram arrives on UK shores in 18th June 2026, with a fabulous cover reimagined by Pushkin Press! Followed by the US/Canada Harper Perennial edition on 8th Sept 2026.
The wayang kulit dancers are gloriously enigmatic…
How did Miss Cassidy end up in Singapore? How is she connected to the mysterious and terrifying Rose Ingram, hailing from an unnamed island on the Malay Archipelago, who offers… special services… to ladies in tricky circumstances?
And why does her daughter Letty never age?
THE MYSTICAL MISTER KAY
The cycle comes to completion in The Mystical Mister Kay. Two books ago, Miss Cassidy arrived in Singapore; and now, Mister Kay crosses the world to Great Britain to look for his missing friend.
Mr Kay has… personality. When he decides he will cross from the north of Scotland to the south of England in disguise, he chooses the best? worst? disguise possible – he pretends to be a white man, disguised as an ‘Oriental Mystic’. Hijinks ensue.
But Miss Cassidy – hidden and in hiding – has other problems. A Princess has been found dead in a bathtub. The extremely good-looking (and exceptionally sinister) Mr Ruby, who runs the hottest fashion house in the city of Tolwich, House of Ruby, is involved… somehow. And, for reasons unknown to anyone, Miss Cassidy has ended up in the debt of the Chinese goddess of…. toilets?
The Mystical Mister Kay is the winner of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2025, and was awarded Best Literary Work at the Singapore Book Awards in 2026!
Best Literary Work, Singapore Book Awards 2026. *Photo: Adan Jimenez
The Italian version of the Formidable Miss Cassidy is out now with Bompiani Books! La Formidabile indeed
PUSHKIN PRESS ONE hardcover edition now out at all good UK Bookstores!
Also available on Kindle: my 2019 slightly mad space opera novella, the Messiah Virus! It went out of print with the closure of Math Paper Press, but with the efforts of Sing Lit Station, I was able to repurchase the rights, and it’s now out as a Kindle publication. Feel free to check it out!
About the Author:
Hi! I’m Meihan, a Singaporean writer of (probably? mostly?) Chinese ethnicity. I was born in the 70s and raised in a Singapore that was rather less shiny and more colourful than it is now. (I’m not complaining, since our homes stay upright, our trains work on time, and we all flush the toilet and don’t stick gum on things, but there it is).
The Miss Cassidy series started as a COVID project, and its original premise was to introduce to…well, the rest of the world… all the fascinatingly mixed-up superstitions, occult practices, and folk religions of our corner of the world. They are UNIQUE, in a word.
In particular, the entire Southeast Asian region has especially horrifying monsters – the pontianak, the penanggalan, the pelesit, the krasue, the toyol, the orang minyak, and so many more. They run rings around Dracula. They pish-posh at Frankenstein’s monster. They make Krampus run screaming.
So what if a creature of European magic, came to Singapore at its most cultural-pot-boiling-over moment in time, and found herself facing a momok?
That’s where it started. I hope you enjoy the adventure!
Meihan Boey