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The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Lost meets The Hunger Games in the thrilling new young adult novel from C.L. Taylor, the Sunday Times and million-copy bestselling author. *** Welcome to The Island. Where your worst fears are about to come true… It was supposed...

The Nineteen

The Nineteen
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

In January 2000, nearly a dozen of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted lieutenants gathered secretly in Malaysia at, of all places, a luxurious condominium overlooking a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course. The purpose of this summit meeting of terrorists was...

The Trip

The Trip
  • Author(s): Phoebe Morgan
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Ko Samet
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How well do you know your friends? Four friends on the holiday of a lifetime. Until a vicious murder shatters their paradise. Four friends who’d do anything for each other, until now. Only one of them committed a crime....

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • Author(s): Milan Kundera
  • Location(s): Prague, Geneva, Thailand, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In this novel – a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities – Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century ‘Being’ In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world...

Pure

Pure
  • Author(s): Timothy Mo
  • Location(s): Thailand, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Timothy Mo’s first novel in a decade is set within the battle for secession in the Muslim regions of southern Thailand.It’s narrated for the most part by Snooky, a Thai Ladyboy. Pure covers epic expanses of time and is...

The Atlas of Us

The Atlas of Us
  • Author(s): Tracey Buchanan
  • Location(s): Exmoor, Finland, Koh Phi Phi, Krabi, Serbia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1900s through 2004 to 2014

How far would you go for the one you love the most? A stormy love affair. A secret. A discovery that changes everything … Louise Fenton flies to a devastated Thailand to search for her mother, missing following the...

A Killing Smile

A Killing Smile
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 1990s

A Killing Smile is a simple but deep story about the aftermath of events following the death of a successful Los Angeles attorney’s wife. Lost, confused, and angry, Lawrence Baring, Esq. goes to Bangkok and confronts Tuttle–the man his...

A Nail Through the Heart

A Nail Through the Heart
  • Author(s): Timothy Hallinan
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Travel writer Poke Rafferty was good at looking for trouble – so good that he made a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. But that was before Bangkok stole his heart....

A Walk in the Thai Sun

A Walk in the Thai Sun
  • Author(s): G J C McKitrick
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Retired Vancouver Police officer Sam Watson has little use for religion. When his only son, Jeff, commits to missionary service in Thailand, Sam is understandably upset. An uneasy long distance relationship continues until the unthinkable happens, Jeff is murdered....

A World of Trouble

A World of Trouble
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Dubai, Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Jack Shepherd is sick of Washington politics, sick of corporate law, and even a little sick of himself. So he hits the road looking for a new start, makes a couple of wrong turns, and winds up in Hong...

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