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- Location(s): Penang
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1788
1788, Penang, Malaya: A young man desperate to prove himself becomes enmeshed in the web of deceit woven by an ambitious adventurer whose double-dealing imperils the island’s inhabitants. Malaya, 1788: Aspiring journalist Jim Lloyd jeopardises his future in ways...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
Jim is young, ambitious and idealistic, keen to make his name in the world. But fate has other plans. Jim has been made First Mate on board the Patna, but when the she starts to flood in the middle...
- Location(s): Bali
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Set against the backdrop of the Dutch invasion of Bali just over a century ago, and the resulting “mass suicides” of the Balinese royalty, “Love and Death in Bali” uses the tales of ordinary people to tell the bloody...
- Location(s): Indonesia, Jakarta (Batavia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning ‘The Harmony Silk Factory’ comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
After being discharged from the Marines, John Buchanan takes a position as overseer for plantation owner Ignacio Saenz. The work is good, but the real draw for John is Mount Mayon, the active volcano looming on the island’s horizon. Finally...
- Location(s): Rosales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Sionsil Jose is seen as one of the Philippine’s greatest novelists. The Rosales Novels are a series of five novels about the life of a small Illocano town in Central Luzon (Rosalles) after which the Novels are named. I am...
Rituals of the Dead: An Artifact Mystery
- Location(s): Netherlands, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 1962, 2017
Art, religion, and anthropology collide in Alderson’s latest art mystery thriller, Rituals of the Dead, Book three of the Adventures of Zelda Richardson series. Art history student Zelda Richardson is working at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam on an exhibition...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Malaysia (Malaya), Montreal
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1970s onwards
Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby: in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
A sensational and utterly engaging novel—Breakfast at Tiffany’s set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a...
Siam: Or the Woman Who Shot a Man
- Location(s): Bangkok, Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Set in 1967, ”Siam” follows the fortunes of Claire, a 25-year-old bride from Boston. Blond-haired, blue-eyed, the daughter of a Harvard classics professor, Claire barely knows where Thailand is when she meets James, her husband-to-be. (”It’s pronounced tie not...
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