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Nowhere to Goa

Nowhere to Goa
  • Author(s): Doug E Jones
  • Location(s): India, Nepal, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nowhere To Goa is a travel adventure novel set in Nepal, India, and Thailand that takes off when Scott, a studious sophomore at Northwestern University, flies halfway around the world to bring home his troublesome twin brother who has...

Phnom Penh Express

Phnom Penh Express
  • Author(s): Johan Smits
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Belgium, Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A young Cambodian returns home. A diamond shipment goes missing. A foreign assassin arrives in Phnom Penh. And then there s chocolate lots of it. Phirun is determined to make it as Cambodia s first chocolate chef. But things...

Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare

Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare
  • Author(s): Philip Short
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

THe Khmer Rough came into being in the 1950s, becoming infamous for ruthlessness and guerrilla tactics. During the height of power they are thought to have murder 2 millioin people in the late 1970s. 1979 they were forced out...

River of Time

River of Time
  • Author(s): Jon Swain
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1970s

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam’s film, “The Killing Fields”, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. These years in Camodia influenced how Swain re-evaluated life and death in this country,...

Slash and Burn

Slash and Burn
  • Author(s): Colin Cotterill
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1970s

Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he’s tired of being Laos’s national coroner, a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he’s pushing eighty, and wants to...

Sustenance

Sustenance
  • Author(s): Simone Lazaroo
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Elsewhere Hotel in Bali has the ‘Bali’ lifestyle – exotic, pool, palms, views,everything a holiday dream should be. And the tourist who congregate are all looking to ‘Find Yourself’ the strapline of the hotel., Perpetua de Mello extolls...

Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters

Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters
  • Author(s): Philip Eade
  • Location(s): Sarawak
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): First hal 20th Century

Sylvia Brooke was the consort of His Highness Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, the last in a bizarre dynasty of English despots who ruled their jungle kingdom on Borneo until 1946. The White Rajahs were long held up...

The Blue Door

The Blue Door
  • Author(s): Lise Kristensen
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 1940s

‘1942: It was towards the middle of the year when my friends started disappearing…’ On the island of Java, the stirrings of the Second World War in Europe and the angry-looking man called Hitler seem a million miles away...

The Book of Salt

The Book of Salt
  • Author(s): Monique Truong
  • Location(s): Belley, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1930s

Saigon in the 20s, Paris in the 30s, this is the story of loss and exile. Paris in the household of Gertrude Stein, and Saigon the homeland. A touchingly evocative novel.

The Corruptionist

The Corruptionist
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set during the recent turbulent times in Thailand, the 11th novel in the Calvino series centers around the street demonstrations and occupation of Government House in Bangkok. Hired by an American businessman, Calvino finds himself caught in the middle...

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