Check out Singapore Grip, it's not exactly gg but it's a similarly British (or maybe irish) take on that colonised thing, with a more ironic distance at times.
Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss: This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides.
Not only the Blacketts, their friends and enemies, but many individuals are caught up in the events. Singapore at this historical watershed has never been so faithfully and passionately recreated.
What that doesn't mention is the way you feel the dirty oppressive heat, the sweat, the whisky sweats, the grime, the humidity, the heat and fevers. Book captured that well enough to make me need a shower
