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- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW"
Once in a great while comes a storyteller who can illuminate worlds large and small, magical and true to life. When the Elephants Dance introduces us to the incandescent voice of Tess Uriza Holthe, who sets her remarkable first...
When the Future Comes Too Soon
- Location(s): Ipoh
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Following the death of their matriarch, the lives of Chye Hoon’s family are turned upside down. Now that the British have fled and the Japanese have conquered, their once-benign world changes overnight. Amid the turmoil, Chye Hoon’s daughter-in-law, Mei...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Crazy: When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn’t know is that...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1939
Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn’t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the...
- Location(s): Phuket
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand....
- Location(s): Bali, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Connie Thorne was a foundling, a child left by her mother for strangers to find. Forty years on, without ever being able to discover her true identity, she has put all her energy into creating a flawless shell for...
- Location(s): Sumatra
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940-45
India, 1940. When Nadine learns that the Indian woman she thought her nanny is, in fact, her mother, she rebels against her English father and he arranges for her to be wed to an Australian merchant many years older....
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Taken prisoner by a ruthless group of anarchists deep in the Cambodian jungle, anthropologist Jocelyn Hewitt is isolated in a dark prison cell. Without chance of rescue. Or hope. Until the man in the next cell reaches out to...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1960s
This is the story of a 12-year-old Thai boy called Mr Little Frog. The year is 1963 and he lives on the family estate in Bangkok. He refuses to accept that he is Thai, eats English food, speaks only...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons...
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