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Sightseeing

Sightseeing
  • Author(s): Rattawut Lapcharoensap
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Subtle and profound comment on the nature of East meets West.

The Singapore Grip

The Singapore Grip
  • Author(s): J G Farrell
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1939

Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn’t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the...

Bangkok Eight

Bangkok Eight
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When a US Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal Thai Police Force whose idea of justice excludes the habitual bribe-taking practised by...

Bangkok Noir

Bangkok Noir
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore (editor)
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Bangkok is one of the great cities in the world, but unlike other great metropolises it has no noir tales to its name. Bangkok Noir puts that to right. In this first ever noir anthology of Bangkok, twelve seasoned...

Bangkok Rules

Bangkok Rules
  • Author(s): Harlan Wolff
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Thailand is terrified. A sadistic serial killer has been abducting young innocents for his ritual horror and the authorities are clueless. Carl Engel is an enigma. The blunt Londoner has forged a thirty-year career as a private investigator amid...

Bangkok Tattoo

Bangkok Tattoo
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The second in the series of Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep . This takes the reader not only through Bangkok but to the area further south where there is a lot of unrest.

Catching the Sun

Catching the Sun
  • Author(s): Tony Parsons
  • Location(s): Phuket
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand....

Constance

Constance
  • Author(s): Rosie Thomas
  • Location(s): Bali, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Connie Thorne was a foundling, a child left by her mother for strangers to find. Forty years on, without ever being able to discover her true identity, she has put all her energy into creating a flawless shell for...

Dead Girl Beach

Dead Girl Beach
  • Author(s): Mike Sullivan
  • Location(s): Koh Phangan
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Book 1 of the Sam Seabury Series. At least every five months the body of a young girl turns up dead in a remote tropical lagoon on Thailand’s Koh Phangan Island. The local village pipeline carry stories of the...

East of India

East of India
  • Author(s): Erica Brown
  • Location(s): Sumatra
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940-45

India, 1940. When Nadine learns that the Indian woman she thought her nanny is, in fact, her mother, she rebels against her English father and he arranges for her to be wed to an Australian merchant many years older....

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