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Neil Humphreys

    Neil Humphreys è un umorista britannico i cui scritti offrono osservazioni acute, spesso autoironiche, sulla vita a Singapore. Eccelle nel catturare le sfumature della cultura di Singapore dalla prospettiva di un espatriato che ha profondamente abbracciato la vita e le usanze locali. Il suo lavoro contrasta frequentemente le abitudini degli espatriati occidentali con la sua immersione nelle esperienze quotidiane della nazione insulare. Humphreys fornisce una lente arguta e relazionabile attraverso cui i lettori possono esplorare il singolare panorama sociale di Singapore.

    Bloody Foreigners
    Marina Bay Sins
    Rich Kill Poor Kill
    • London is angry, divided, and obsessed with foreigners. A murdered Asian and some racist graffiti in Chinatown threaten to trigger a race war that the white supremacists of Make England Great Again have been hoping for. They just need a tipping point.

      Bloody Foreigners2021
      3,8
    • When a foreign worker is found dead in a Singapore back street, few people care. Even the police dismiss the killing as another underclass slaying. Then more victims turn up, all killed with the same weapon and Singapore must come to grips with its first serial killer in decades. The murderer must be stopped.

      Rich Kill Poor Kill2016
      4,7
    • Detective Inspector Stanley Low is having a bad day. His bipolar disorder is ruining another session with his psychiatrist, and when a murdered prostitute and a dead expatriate are discovered at Singapore's most prestigious hotel in the glamorous Marina Sins Bay, he is plunged back into the sordid underworld he was desperate to leave behind.

      Marina Bay Sins2015
      3,8