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How to Find Your (First) Husband

How to Find Your (First) Husband
  • Author(s): Rosie Blake
  • Location(s): Tioman Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Isobel Graves moved to LA determined to be the Next Big Thing. Instead, she is dressed as a giant prawn handing out fliers promoting a fish market. Rather than attending glamorous parties and dating exciting men, her evenings consist...

How to Kill Your Best Friend

How to Kill Your Best Friend
  • Author(s): Lexie Elliott
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The perfect getaway – to get away with murder… Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been best friends since they met on their college swimming team. Now Lissa is dead – drowned off the coast of the remote island where...

Illustrado

Illustrado
  • Author(s): Miguel Syjuco
  • Location(s): Manila
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

It begins with a body. One anonymous winter day, the corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River. Gone is the controversial giant of Asian literature. And missing is the only manuscript of his final book, an...

In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines

In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines
  • Author(s): Stanley Karnow
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 19th and 20th Centuries

Corazon Aquino’s dramatic emergence in the Philippines in 1986 captured the imagination of the world and focused attention on what was for decades America’s only major colonial possession. This book portrays America’s 19th- and 20th-century empire builders and examines...

Indonesia etc

Indonesia etc
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Pisani
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Author Elizabeth Pisani spent more than a year travelling around the Indonesian archipelago. She took her time to talk to a huge variety of people –  from the many ethnic groups, and religious groups dotted all over the 1000s...

Into the Heart of Borneo

Into the Heart of Borneo
  • Author(s): Redmond O'Hanlon
  • Location(s): Borneo
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

‘We’ve left a lot of men in Borneo – know what I mean?’ With their SAS trainer’s warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O’Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of...

Jaipong Dancer

Jaipong Dancer
  • Author(s): Patrick Sweeting
  • Location(s): Sumatra
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in Sumatra in the 1950s, Jaipong Dancer is a story of lost innocence and complex moral dilemmas. It follows the journey of Yahyu, a young Javanese dancer, who runs away from a forced marriage and becomes unwittingly involved...

Journey to the End of the Whale

Journey to the End of the Whale
  • Author(s): John David Morley
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A wonderful hypnotic novel about a man obsessed by the sea and with Indonesian myths about the creatures of the deep

Kalimantaan

Kalimantaan
  • Author(s): C S Godshalk
  • Location(s): Borneo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

In 1838, Gideon Barr sets sails for Borneo, the land he intends to rule. We first see this empire-builder through relatives’ letters, and he emerges as highly unbalanced yet singularly driven. He is also, it appears, almost infallible, applying...

Kilingiri

Kilingiri
  • Author(s): Janna Gray
  • Location(s): Europe, Singapore, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Romantic novel Kilingiri’ is neither literary nor intellectual, it is not chick-lit, Mummy Porn (I hate that term!) or a nail-biting whodunit. It is, quite simply, a fabulous curl up and read saga which will appeal to readers who...

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