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For the Sake of All Living Things

For the Sake of All Living Things
  • Author(s): John M del Vecchio
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s

This book covers Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, as well as delving into Cambodian culture.

Forever a Stranger and Other Stories

Forever a Stranger and Other Stories
  • Author(s): Hella S Haasse
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): First half 20th century

Dealing with the themes of alienation and estrangement, this collection of stories reflects the impressions the author absorbed during her childhood and youth in the Indies. Describing the Indonesian landscape, the stories evoke images of the country and its...

Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton

Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton
  • Author(s): Sandra Gregory
  • Location(s): Bangkok, England
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Sandra Gregory was living a life in Bangkok that many only dream of – until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare. Desperate to get home, she agreed to smuggle an addict’s personal supply of heroin....

Fragrant Heart

Fragrant Heart
  • Author(s): Miranda Emmerson
  • Location(s): China, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

We buy food we can point to. We stalk the streets until rush hour and wait for the little hatches to open in the sides of restaurants. From the steamy openings, cooks in overalls sell jiaozi (dumplings) and bowls...

Francesca

Francesca
  • Author(s): Donald Finnaeus Mayo
  • Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste), Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

It’s December 1975 and seventeen-year-old Francesca is about to find out if that which does not kill her will make her strong. Caught in the crossfire of the Indonesian army’s brutal invasion of East Timor, she escapes with her...

Gagamba: The Spider Man

Gagamba: The Spider Man
  • Author(s): F Sionil José
  • Location(s): Manila
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

The novel pinpoints many insights that illuminate the subtle interplay of people in Manila in the 1990’s. Simple and direct… the pages turn at the speed of light.

Gambling on Magic

Gambling on Magic
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s and flashbacks to first half 20th Century

Gambling on Magic is set in Bangkok where life is more than good for Joey Balfour, ex-patriot gambling king, former TV personality, and the current owner of the mysterious and exotic Feng Shui Flower Shop in downtown Bangkok. Then...

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Central Asia, Eastern Europe, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey – The Great Railway Bazaar – was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel...

God King of Angkor

God King of Angkor
  • Author(s): Gregory A Walden
  • Location(s): Angkor (Siem Reap)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1220 AD

Angkor. 1220AD. The most powerful empire in the history of Southeast Asia is at the height of its glory. In the distant province of Champa Angkor’s greatest general, Davendra, has crushed a rebellion. Ignoring his son’s advice, Davendra commits...

Golden Earth

Golden Earth
  • Author(s): Norman Lewis
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Post 1940

“a simple blueprint for Utopia” – the best travel book on Burma since World War II – despite travelling at a time of massive internal insecurity, Norman Lewis still found the eternal Burma, where pagodas are the only punctuation...

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