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Border Run

Border Run
  • Author(s): Simon Lewis
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), China
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

LOOKING FOR A NEW EXPERIENCE? TRY MURDER … Bored of the ‘mango smoothie’ trail and keen to spice up their Facebook albums, and maybe their sex lives, Jake and Will take a tour into China’s jungle borderland with Burma....

Burma Chronicles

Burma Chronicles
  • Author(s): Guy Delisle
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Guy Delisle’s newest travelogue revolves around a year spent in Burma (also known as Myanmar) with his wife and son. Burma is notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control: where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers,...

Burma Sahib

Burma Sahib
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

There is a short period in everyone’s life when his character is fixed forever . . . ‘ George Orwell Eric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma. Nineteen years old, unusually tall, a diffident...

Cebu

Cebu
  • Author(s): Wayne A Freeman
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Take a middle-aged white man and send him on holiday to the Philippines with some friends and then be prepared for some surprises, but not the ones you might expect…. Okay, he is no saint, but nor is he...

Coconuts and Wonderbras

Coconuts and Wonderbras
  • Author(s): Lynda Renham
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Literary agent Libby Holmes is desperate for her boyfriend, Toby, to propose to her and will do anything for him and if that means dieting for England then she’ll have a go. However, when Libby’s boss introduces her to...

Dark Horizons

Dark Horizons
  • Author(s): Dan Smith
  • Location(s): Sumatra
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

After caring for his mother in her last days, Alex has gone off round the world – with no plan other than to travel and maybe recapture some of his lost youth. Beginning his travels in Indonesia, the idea...

Disco for the Departed

Disco for the Departed
  • Author(s): Colin Cotterill
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1970s

Set in the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos in 1977, Cotterill’s engrossing third mystery (after 2005’s Thirty-three Teeth) takes series hero Dr. Siri Paiboun, the 73-year-old national coroner who has recently discovered his shaman ancestry, and Nurse Dtui, his...

Dusk

Dusk
  • Author(s): F Sionil José
  • Location(s): Rosales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th / Early 20th century

With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called the first great Filipino novels written in English. Set in the 1880s, Dusk records...

Earth and Water

Earth and Water
  • Author(s): Kevin Bowen
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Born in the early 1960s and having no direct experience of the Viet Nam War, Edith Shillue arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in September 1993 from her native Massachusetts to begin work as a university lecturer in...

Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Location(s): Bali, India, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Liz’s memoir who- after her marriage breakdown – takes off for a year and goes to mull over her life in three destinations: Italy, India and Indonesia (Bali). Italy is about the pleasure of eating, India is about finding...

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