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Killing Plato

Killing Plato
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Phuket
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Welcome to Phuket. It s a paradise, for the rich, the beautiful and the heavily armed. When Jack Shepherd runs into international racketeer and fugitive Plato Karsarkis in a Phuket beach bar one night, little can he imagine the...

Laundry Man

Laundry Man
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Welcome to Bangkok. Bribery, corruption, money laundering and murder. They re not out to get you it s just how they do business. Once a high-flying international lawyer and renowned expert on global money laundering, the urbane and straight-shooting...

Let Not the Waves of the Sea

Let Not the Waves of the Sea
  • Author(s): Simon Stephenson
  • Location(s): Koh Phi Phi
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

A very moving account of one family’s huge loss in the Boxing Day Tsunami.Dominic, his brother and Eileen were two of the thousands who died in 2004. Stephenson recalls memories of their time together, as he and his family...

Lies That Blind

Lies That Blind
  • Author(s): E S Alexander
  • Location(s): Penang
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1788

1788, Penang, Malaya: A young man desperate to prove himself becomes enmeshed in the web of deceit woven by an ambitious adventurer whose double-dealing imperils the island’s inhabitants. Malaya, 1788: Aspiring journalist Jim Lloyd jeopardises his future in ways...

Lord Jim

Lord Jim
  • Author(s): Joseph Conrad
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Jim is young, ambitious and idealistic, keen to make his name in the world. But fate has other plans. Jim has been made First Mate on board the Patna, but when the she starts to flood in the middle...

Lost in Shangri_La

Lost in Shangri_La
  • Author(s): Mitchell Zuckoff
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1940s

Three months before the end of World War II, a U.S. Army plane flying over New Guinea crashed in uncharted mountains inhabited by a Stone Age tribe. Nineteen passengers and crew were killed and two were mortally wounded. But...

Love and Death in Bali

Love and Death in Bali
  • Author(s): Vicky Baum
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Set against the backdrop of the Dutch invasion of Bali just over a century ago, and the resulting “mass suicides” of the Balinese royalty, “Love and Death in Bali” uses the tales of ordinary people to tell the bloody...

Malayan Spymaster

Malayan Spymaster
  • Author(s): Boris Hembry
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

A true story of 1930s Malaysia, of jungle operations, submarines and spies in WWII, and of the postwar Malayan Emergency, as experienced by an extraordinary man. Rubber planter Boris Hembry was a part of Freddy Spencer Chapman’s covert Stay...

Map of the Invisible World

Map of the Invisible World
  • Author(s): Tash Aw
  • Location(s): Indonesia, Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning ‘The Harmony Silk Factory’ comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his...

Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company

Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

Max Havelaar – a Dutch civil servant in Java – burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is...

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