Yangsze Choo writes historical fantasy shaped by Chinese and Southeast Asian folklore, spirit worlds and women navigating restrictive social systems. The Ghost Bride is set in colonial Malacca and follows Li Lan after a wealthy family asks her to become the ghost bride of their dead son, drawing her into the Chinese afterlife and a mystery surrounding his death. The Night Tiger moves to 1930s Malaya, where a houseboy and an apprentice dressmaker become connected through a severed finger, local superstition and rumours of a weretiger. The Fox Wife turns to fox spirits, revenge and investigation across early twentieth-century China and Japan. Choo's novels fit historical fantasy, Asian folklore and supernatural mystery. Read more Less