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They are Trying to Break Your Heart

They are Trying to Break Your Heart
  • Author(s): David Savill
  • Location(s): Balkans, Khao Lak
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s / 2004

DISASTER WILL BRING THEIR LIVES TOGETHER In 1994, Marko Novak’s world is torn apart by the death of his best friend, a young soldier in the Bosnian war. In 2004, human rights researcher Anya Teal is following a tenuous...

Tua and the Elephant

Tua and the Elephant
  • Author(s): Randal Harris
  • Location(s): Chiang Mai
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Ten-year-old Tua—Thai for “peanut”—has everything she needs at home in Chiang Mai, Thailand, except for one thing she’s always wanted: a sister. In the market one day, Tua makes an accidental acquaintance—one with wise, loving eyes, remarkable strength, and...

Under Water

Under Water
  • Author(s): Tara Menon
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Environmental
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

A stunning and deeply moving literary debut of grief, loss and female friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic natural events. When five-year-old Marissa loses her mother, she is taken by her father to live on a small Thai island in the Andaman...

Venom

Venom
  • Author(s): Saneh Sangsuk, Mui Poopoksakul (translator)
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The village of Praeknamdang, nestled in the Thai jungle, has fallen under the spell of Song Waad, the self-proclaimed medium of The Sacred Mother. Living in fear of his connection to the Patron goddess, the villagers offer up land...

Welcome Me to the Kingdom

Welcome Me to the Kingdom
  • Author(s): Mai Nardone
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Bangkok, 1980. As the decades pass, figures fall in and out of the relentless city: Pea and Nam, who arrive in search of a better life; a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, Pinky; Benz, Tintin and Big,...

What We Become

What We Become
  • Author(s): Reece Willis
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

She was everything he could have wanted. From the moment she came into his life, she captured his heart and turned his world upside down. Now that she’s gone, he can’t live without her. Desperate for resolution, Ben follows...

You Don’t Know Me

You Don’t Know Me
  • Author(s): Sara Foster
  • Location(s): Bangkok, England, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lizzie Burdett was eighteen when she vanished. Noah Carruso has never forgotten her: she was his first crush; his unrequited love. She was also his brother’s girlfriend. Tom Carruso hasn’t been home in over a decade. He left soon...

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