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Fieldwork

Fieldwork
  • Author(s): Mischa Berlinski
  • Location(s): Northern Thailand
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A deep and rich novel set among the hill tribes of Northern Thailand. A suspense story blending anthropology and Christian missionaries, it almost feels autobiographical. The thread that keeps the book together is the main character’s, almost obsessive, attempt...

Forbidden Hill (Singapore Saga, Vol.1)

Forbidden Hill (Singapore Saga, Vol.1)
  • Author(s): John D Greenwood
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1820s

On 6 February 1819, Stamford Raffles, William Farquhar, Temenggong Abdul Rahman and Sultan Hussein signed a treaty that granted the British East India Company the right to establish a trading settlement on the sparsely populated island of Singapore. “Forbidden...

Hungry Ghosts (Singapore Saga, Vol.3)

Hungry Ghosts (Singapore Saga, Vol.3)
  • Author(s): John D Greenwood
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850s

Set against the development of Singapore in the years 1852-1869, “Hungry Ghosts” (Singapore Saga, Vol. 3) continues the vivid portrayal of the lives of the early pioneers, including Tan Kim Ching, W. H. Read, Habib Noh, Tan Kim Seng,...

If I Had Two Lives

If I Had Two Lives
  • Author(s): Abbigail N Rosewood
  • Location(s): New England, New York City (NYC), Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000's

This luminous debut novel follows a young woman from her childhood in Vietnam to her life as an immigrant in the United States – and her necessary return to her homeland. As a child, isolated from the world in...

Love in the strangest of places

Love in the strangest of places
  • Author(s): M Alexander
  • Location(s): Bangkok, London, Moscow

Dan changes his mind on holiday to Bangkok. He sees the girls and the drinks and forgets about work with the rest but something is not right. He returns to London and takes the chance of redundancy when it...

My Other Heart

My Other Heart
  • Author(s): Emma Nanami Strenner
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Philadelphia, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before they would land back home on Vietnamese soil. While they prepare to board, the...

PACIFIC DASH – From Asia Vagabond to Casino King

PACIFIC DASH – From Asia Vagabond to Casino King
  • Author(s): Chet Nairene
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1969 to mid-1990s

Young American Dashiell Bonaventure wanders Southeast Asia for two decades, falling in love and lust, saving a life and having his own saved. He meanders the vice dens, beaches and back alleys of Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and...

PACIFIC ODYSSEY – The Curious Journey of Lew 2.0

PACIFIC ODYSSEY – The Curious Journey of Lew 2.0
  • Author(s): Chet Nairene
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New Jersey, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current Day

Brilliant but shallow New York businessman Lew Clarke gets in over his head after partnering with a quirky SE Asian company located beyond the Golden Triangle. in this harrowing but delightful fantasy, calamities begin to strike his American customers,...

The Bamboo Stalk

The Bamboo Stalk
  • Author(s): Saud Alsanousi
  • Location(s): Kuwait, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Josephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son with literary aspirations. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true...

The Beach

The Beach
  • Author(s): Alex Garland
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Ko Samui, Koh Phi Phi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land–forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation...

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