SINGAPORE – A cup of brewed coffee in hand, a purring cat in the lap and a burnt-out protagonist behind the counter of a cosy bookstore. These are the magic ingredients for an instant bestseller nowadays.
Singaporeans are buying into this exploding genre variously called “cosy fiction”, “healing fiction” or “comfort reads”. Singaporean life lacks romance, so readers turn to the genre to romanticise their own life.
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