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- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Vietnam War
“When a woman comes to Vietnam to cover the war, she’s called a ‘girl reporter.’ When a man comes here, he’s just called a reporter.” Present-day: Who was Hazel Cerny? That’s the question her daughter Bee asks herself after...
- Location(s): Vietnam, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): 1965-1973
In Rolling Thunder, the time is late 1965 and 1966 in war zone places such as Saigon, Hanoi, Bien Hoa, Da Nang, and Tahkli. Back in Washington, LBJ sits over lunch and personally picks bombing targets in an attempt...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as, “one of those rare novels that stays with us to...
- Location(s): Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Good and bad. Life and death. Some choices aren’t black and white A grief-stricken young mother switches her dead child for a Vietnamese street kid, then spends the next decade living a lie. She remarries and starts to feel...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Location(s): Cambodia, England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970 - present day
This thrilling unpredictable, yet sometimes hilarious quest will have you mesmerised. Ben Bakewell, the master pâtissier at one of London’s leading restaurants, befriends Ravuth, a refugee from the killing fields of Cambodia who fled to England as the Khmer...
Survival in the Killing Fields
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
Haing Ngor survived the labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. This is his life under the Khmer Rouge, an evocative and heart rending book about the descent of his country into hell. War slaves, execution squads, brutality beyond measure, squalor,...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1970s
The Dr Siri Paiboun series by Brit ex-pat Colin Cotterill has been joyously received, both for its humour, and its intriguing historical setting, in newly communist 1970s Laos. The books start when 72-year-old Siri is forced to become the...
- Location(s): Vietnam, Mui
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately she tries to complain,...
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