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A Woman of Angkor

A Woman of Angkor
  • Author(s): John Burgess
  • Location(s): Angkor (Siem Reap), Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th Century

Pure and beautiful, she glows like the moon behind clouds.” The time is the 12th Century, the place Cambodia, birthplace of the lost Angkor civilisation. In a village behind a towering stone temple lives a young woman named Sray,...

A World of Trouble

A World of Trouble
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Dubai, Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Jack Shepherd is sick of Washington politics, sick of corporate law, and even a little sick of himself. So he hits the road looking for a new start, makes a couple of wrong turns, and winds up in Hong...

A Yellow House

A Yellow House
  • Author(s): Karien Van Ditzhuijzen
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ten-year-old Singaporean Maya is lonely: her grandmother is dead, her mother is focused on her career and her best friend has become a bully. When Aunty M, a domestic worker from Indonesia, joins the family to take care of...

Almayer’s Folly: a story of an Eastern River

Almayer’s Folly: a story of an Eastern River
  • Author(s): Joseph Conrad
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

This is Joseph Conrad’s first novel and it sets the style that he adopts throughout his literary life. He describes the unravelling of flawed characters against a backdrop of dramatic proportions.  Conrad’s powers of description are remarkable with the crisis in...

America’s Boy: the Marcoses and the Philippines

America’s Boy: the Marcoses and the Philippines
  • Author(s): James Hamilton-Paterson
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

A re-examination of the rule of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in the Philippines and the conditions that gave rise to their leadership. The author argues that they were merely the latest in a long line of corrupt Filipino leaders...

An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines

An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines
  • Author(s): Alfred W McCoy
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Current

Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of Filipino family-based oligarchies both derives from and contributes to a weak, corrupt state. From provincial warlords to modern managers, prominent Philippine leaders have fused...

An Outcast of the Islands

An Outcast of the Islands
  • Author(s): Joseph Conrad
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Conrad used his experience within the British empire to write novels and stories that often used the sea and navy as a setting, juxtaposing the individual human spirit with the collective duty and honor of the British navy.

Artemis (2)

Artemis (2)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): India, South East Asia, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1794

In the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting. Now a true Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero’s...

Baby Jesus Pawn Shop

Baby Jesus Pawn Shop
  • Author(s): Lucia Orth
  • Location(s): Manila
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Caldwell household, set against the dying regime of the Marcos family with its horror and abuse of its people.

Backpackers

Backpackers
  • Author(s): Graeme Maughan
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s/Modern

It’s 2003, and Cath Pearson is on the run through south east Asia. But from what? It’s 2013, and rock star Jack Wolf has just tried to commit suicide. He begins a search for the one girl he loved...

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