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Ermita: A Filipino Novel

Ermita: A Filipino Novel
  • Author(s): F Sionil José
  • Location(s): Manila
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set mainly during the pre-martial law era of the 1950s, the story takes its reader back to the arrogant world of Ermita, the former “rich district” of the Philippine Republic.

Everything is Broken

Everything is Broken
  • Author(s): Emma Larkin
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

On 2 May 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, blocked international aid from entering the country, and provided little relief themselves....

Farewell Dinner for a Spy

Farewell Dinner for a Spy
  • Author(s): Edward Wilson
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), Laos, London
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Fiction
  • Era(s): Post WW2

1949: William Catesby returns to London in disgrace, accused of murdering a ‘double-dipper’ the Americans believed to be one of their own. His left-wing sympathies have him singled out as a traitor. Henry Bone throws him a lifeline, sending...

Fields of Fire

Fields of Fire
  • Author(s): James Webb
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1960s

They each had their reasons for being a soldier. They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo – Death Before Dishonor – before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts...

Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines

Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines
  • Author(s): John Stuart Thomson
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Fil and Filippa – Story of Child Life in the Philippines at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by John Stuart Thomson is in...

Finding George Orwell in Burma

Finding George Orwell in Burma
  • Author(s): Emma Larkin
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Era(s): Modern

In one of the most brilliant and intrepid memoirs in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent travelling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma’s underground...

Finding Maria

Finding Maria
  • Author(s): Dawn Farnham
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Era(s): 1950s

In December 1950, the worst riots Singapore has ever seen shut down the town for days, killing 18 people and wounding 173. Racial and religious tension had been simmering for months over the custody battle for wartime waif Maria...

Fires on the Plain

Fires on the Plain
  • Author(s): Shohei Ooka
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1940's

In 1941, the Japanese army invaded and occupied the Philippines and subjected its people to rape, enslavement and murder with an estimated 1 million Filipinos killed during the conflict. In December of 1944, the USA took the islands back...

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
  • Author(s): Loung Ung
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

As a small child Loung Ung enjoyed a carefree childhood in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. But as the Khmer Rouge took over the city in the mid 70s her family fled their...

Fishing for Tigers

Fishing for Tigers
  • Author(s): Emily Maguire
  • Location(s): Hanoi
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal freedom. Thirty-five and...

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