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- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): 2013
In the aftermath of the fiercest typhoon on record to hit land, banners bearing the words Tindog Tacloban started to appear all over the city. Meaning Rise Up Tacloban, they were a testament to the determination and resilience of...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s
For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. Soon...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
In 1980s Burma, the British ambassador’s son goes missing. Discovered in the north of the country, Michael Atwood is in imminent danger, trapped between sides fighting a bitter civil war and with no way of getting back to Rangoon....
- Location(s): Bangkok, Koh Chang, Koh Samet
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When travellers Ben and Emma come to blows on the idyllic Thai island of Koh Samet, it s not long before Ben falls for Fon, a flirtatious but enigmatic beach masseuse, and is forced to come to terms with...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A country at war with itself, a family divided and betrayed, a bond that can never be broken… Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where...
- Location(s): Java, St Mawes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Jenni is a ghost writer. It’s a job that suits her well. Still haunted by a childhood tragedy, she finds it easier to take refuge in the memories of others than to dwell on her own. Klara was a...
- Location(s): London, Penang, Singapore, Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s/40s and 1980s
The First in the Bamboo Trilogy. Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures endless days of clearing jungle, breaking stone and...
- Location(s): California, Indonesia, Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present looking back
John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
Most of us have experienced the Vietnam War through TV – fires, bombings, B-52s. This book vividly takes you to the Vietnamese villages of Vietnam. He describes the people involved in the conflict, mostly North & South Vietnamese and...
- Location(s): Koh Phi Phi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
A Thai family, Lek, Sarai, and their three children are making a living on the island of Ko Phi Phi running tourist accommodation. They have taken in a young American, Patch, who is avoiding the law after getting bound...
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