Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton
- Location(s): Bangkok, England
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Sandra Gregory was living a life in Bangkok that many only dream of – until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare. Desperate to get home, she agreed to smuggle an addict’s personal supply of heroin....
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Restless and driven, journalist Nadine Morgan is always on the move, chasing the next big story, following risky leads and running from anything that might weigh her down. Ten years after an assignment in South Africa ended in tragedy,...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
If you’ve dealt with the loss of a parent or a close family member, “Forgotten Country” is a book that will hit home with you. In beautiful, descriptive, and sparse prose, we watch Janie deal with both her father’s...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1900s Great Depression onwards
Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed… The story begins in Italy, 1900. After years of torment and neglect, Victoria and her four small children immigrate to Hell’s Kitchen, New York, to escape...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome… ‘Four Seasons in Rome’ charts the repercussions of that day,...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 1800s
Daiyu is the orphaned daughter of a once influential, now missing, family. Alone and on the streets, she must rely on her wits to discover what happened to her family. But when Daiyu is kidnapped and smuggled from China...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
America Town in post-war Korea is a bad place to end up in: for Sookie and her half sister, Hyun Jin, it’s an even worse place to start out from. Kelller unflinchingly records the sex and war just after...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
In Fragrant Harbour much of the story is told in the words of Tom Stewart, a young Englishman who sails to Hong Kong in the 1930s and ends up spending the rest of his long life there. The voice...
- Location(s): China, South East Asia
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
- Era(s): Late 2000s
We buy food we can point to. We stalk the streets until rush hour and wait for the little hatches to open in the sides of restaurants. From the steamy openings, cooks in overalls sell jiaozi (dumplings) and bowls...
- Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste), Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
It’s December 1975 and seventeen-year-old Francesca is about to find out if that which does not kill her will make her strong. Caught in the crossfire of the Indonesian army’s brutal invasion of East Timor, she escapes with her...
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