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The Sea Sisters

The Sea Sisters
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Bali, California, Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Two sisters, one life-changing journey… There are some currents in the relationship between sisters that run so dark and so deep, it’s better for the people swimming on the surface never to know what’s beneath . . . Katie’s...

The Secret War of Julia Child

The Secret War of Julia Child
  • Author(s): Diana R Chambers
  • Location(s): Asia, Burma (Myanmar), China, India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

Before she was Julia Child, the famed “French Chef” who stole hearts, she was Julia McWilliams. Thirty years old and directionless, Julia took a job working for America’s first espionage agency, years before cooking or Paris entered the picture....

The Seed and the Sower

The Seed and the Sower
  • Author(s): Laurens Van Der Post
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

What follows is the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break. Yet out of all the violence and misery strange bonds are forged between prisoners – and their gaolers. In a battle for survival...

The Storm We Made

The Storm We Made
  • Author(s): Vanessa Chan
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Japanese-occupied Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s children are in terrible danger. Her eldest child Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Jasmin, the youngest, lives confined in a basement for...

The Tea Lords

The Tea Lords
  • Author(s): Hella S Haasse
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

This Java-set saga of Dutch colonists in the late 1800s is a compelling piece of innovative historical fiction. At its heart is Rudolf Kerkhoven, who finds himself master of a plantation in Java’s Preanger region. Haasse effortlessly combines an...

The Ten Thousand Things (Indonesia)

The Ten Thousand Things (Indonesia)
  • Author(s): Maria Dermout
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

The Ten Thousand Things is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny...

The Tesseract

The Tesseract
  • Author(s): Alex Garland
  • Location(s): Manila
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

The Tesseract is a 1998 English-language novel by Alex Garland. The story intertwines the lives of Manila gangsters, mothers and street children. The novel chronicles numerous characters in non-linear storylines and explores themes of love, adultery, fate, violence, power,...

The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried
  • Author(s): Tim O'Brien
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

A sequence of stories about the Vietnam War, this book also has the unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. It aims to summarize America’s involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to...

The Trouser People

The Trouser People
  • Author(s): Andrew Marshall
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Late 19 Century onwards

Inspired by the diaries of a forgotten Victorian adventurer called Sir George Scott, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrew Marshall set out to discover the real Burma – an impoverished nation ruled by a repressive regime. Scott was a die-hard imperialist...

The White Pearl

The White Pearl
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Malaya, 1941. As the glamorous wife of a plantation owner, Connie Hadley appears to lead a pampered and comfortable life. But she is hiding devastating secrets that could destroy her marriage. Life is changed for ever on the day...

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