Kapitan's Daughters

Sarah Roddan

Kapitan's Daughters, Book One

Interest and Principle

Cover of Interest and Principle by Sarah Roddan
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Published 15 November 2026

Penang, 1860. On the fifteenth night of the new year the unmarried daughters of George Town throw oranges into the sea, and the eldest daughter of Kapitan Gan throws hers at precisely the man she has already decided on.

The Series

Five books, four weddings, one rivalry, one riot.

The five spines of the Kapitan's Daughters series

Kapitan's Daughters follows one family through the Straits between 1860 and 1867. Interest and Principle is the first. The others are being written.

  1. Book OneInterest and Principle
  2. Book TwoAccord and Account
  3. Book ThreeTrust and Estate
  4. Book FourBond and Freedom
  5. Book FiveDebt and Discharge

Every historical note here has been researched as carefully as we know how — but Sarah is a novelist, not a historian, and history keeps more detail than any one reader can catch. If you know something that would make this richer or more exact, tell us, and we will keep improving it for whoever comes next.