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The Moon in the Mango Tree

The Moon in the Mango Tree
  • Author(s): Pamela Binnings Ewen
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Based on the story of the author’s Grandmother, Barbara Perkins, a gifted singer, agrees to follow her husband, from Chicago over to “Siam” where he is to take up the position of a missionary doctor. Stationed in the middle...

The Moonlight Palace

The Moonlight Palace
  • Author(s): Liz Rosenberg
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in...

The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead
  • Author(s): Norman Mailer
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Based on Mailer’s own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, ‘The Naked and the Dead’ is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  • Author(s): Richard Flanagan
  • Location(s): Australia, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from...

The Orientalist and The Ghost

The Orientalist and The Ghost
  • Author(s): Susan Barker
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s to modern

Malaya 1951, Christopher Milnar falls passionately in love with Chinese nurse Evangeline in a jungle resettlement camp – an affair that ends in tragedy when, under attack from Communist guerrillas, Christopher is betrayed, beaten and left for dead. Half...

The Queen of Patpong

The Queen of Patpong
  • Author(s): Timothy Hallinan
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Poke and his family seem at last to have found stability. Poke and Rose are married, and Miaow, now a complicated and sometimes difficult sixth-grader in one of Bangkok’s international schools, is playing the spirit Ariel in a production...

The Rainbow Troops

The Rainbow Troops
  • Author(s): Andrea Hirata
  • Location(s): Belitung
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

You are introduced to the pupils at the village school one by one, drawn into each of their stories and struggles, and then you find you are really hooked in to this wonderful story. Set on the island of...

The Redundancy of Courage

The Redundancy of Courage
  • Author(s): Timothy Mo
  • Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975

Winner of the E.M. Forster Award and shortlistedfor the Booker Prize, this brutal and beautifulnarration of the guerrilla war against theIndonesians in Timor, praised by Fretilin ForeignMinister and Nobel prize-winner Jose Ramos-Hortafor its ‘perfect authenticity’.

The Rent Collector

The Rent Collector
  • Author(s): Camron Wright
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Phnom Penh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the story of people who pick over the rubbish in a waste dump, Stung Meanchey, just outside Phnom Penh – they make their homes from rubbish, they pick up their cooking implements and pots from the dump,...

The Resort

The Resort
  • Author(s): Sara Ochs
  • Location(s): Koh Tao, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THIS THRILLER WAS FIRST LAUNCHED AS ‘THE DIVE’. THIS IS A REBRANDING OF THIS NOVEL Escape to paradise. Scuba diving instructor Cass leads her students out for their first dive off the beautiful coast of Koh Sang, Thailand’s world-famous...

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