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- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Until the French government declassified documents concerning their ignominious defeat at Dien Bien Phu, Madam Daeng’s past had been a well-kept secret. Now Dr Siri’s wife is vulnerable and being stalked by a killer. But when Dr Siri whisks...
The Year of Living Dangerously
- Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Jakarta: 1965. Smelling of petrol, frangipani, kretek cigarettes, hatred and fear, the city waits as racial tension mounts. It is The Year of Living Dangerously. As each day passes, East and West alike wait for the explosions to begin...
- Location(s): Bali, Canggu
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer . . . Nate and Layla, Jude and Sophie. They’ve been a four for as long as they can remember: fancy dinners, dancing ’til dawn . . . Even living and...
This Earth of Mankind (Buru Quartet 1)
- Location(s): Java
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
This is the story of a native Indonesian schoolboy, Minke, who is among the first Indonesians to attend a Dutch school. There are many storylines in this novel: Minke has to struggle for acceptance as a native Indonesian; then there...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it. Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael’s world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls...
- Location(s): South East Asia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Four very different women from one family, united by a loss of self, embark on a quest for happiness that takes them to Singapore, Thailand and beyond. Join Maggie, Beth, Dara and Biggles as they cry, laugh and curse...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Half a century ago when Mochtar Lubis’s Twilight in Jakarta was secreted out of Indonesia and published in London, it was the first Indonesian novel ever to be published in English translation. The novel, a depiction of social and...
- Location(s): Indochina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940 looking back
In this lush, lyrical, and marvelously evocative novel, Catherine Texier takes a mystery from her family’s past and draws from it a portrait of a remarkable woman—her great-grandmother Victorine. A young schoolteacher in a quiet province in France, Victorine...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and...
- Location(s): Java, Netherlands
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 / post WW2
For readers of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization Released from Nazi forced labor as World...
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