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The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison

The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison
  • Author(s): Warren Fellows
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s/1980s

In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Damage Done is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious...

The Hottest Place

The Hottest Place
  • Author(s): Tabitha Flyte
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Abigail is having a great time relaxing on a hot and steamy tropical island in Thailand. She tries to stay faithful to her boyfriend back in England, but it isn’t easy when a variety of attractive, fun-loving young people...

The Map of Lost Memories

The Map of Lost Memories
  • Author(s): Kim Fay
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s

Shanghai, 1925. Irene, a museum curator (and, unofficially, a treasure hunter) is searching for a set of legendary copper scrolls which describe the forgotten history of Cambodia’s ancient Khmer civilisation. Her mentor has sent her to China to enlist...

The Ming Inheritance

The Ming Inheritance
  • Author(s): T Hunt Locke
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Historical and Modern

A six hundred year old legend brought to life~a heart stopping race against history…Phitsanulok, October 1465 AD. The long lost Ming Emperor Jianwen is secretly and finally laid to rest in the northern reaches of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. An...

The Naked Tourist

The Naked Tourist
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Dubai, India, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Osborne travels from Dubai, to Calcutta, on to the Andamans, Bangkok, Bali and finally Papua New Guineau. An opinionated and insightful view of these wonderful places with a bit of history thrown in.

The Payback

The Payback
  • Author(s): Simon Kernick
  • Location(s): Manila
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Dennis Milne is a former cop and part-time assassin. He kills the bad guys – people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. Now he’s in Manila, waiting for his next target: a young woman who’s made some deadly...

The Physics of Climate Change

The Physics of Climate Change
  • Author(s): Lawrence M Krauss
  • Location(s): Mekong Delta
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency’ Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world’s...

The Piano Tuner

The Piano Tuner
  • Author(s): Daniel Mason
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune...

The Scent of Frangipani

The Scent of Frangipani
  • Author(s): Anjana Rai Chaudhuri
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s

Colonial Singapore. A love triangle. Will one woman’s jealousy destroy everyone? It is 1931 in colonial Singapore. A Chinese bondmaid of fifteen stands trial for her aunt’s murder. Mei Mei, born on the inauspicious double seventh day, feels her...

The Speed of Light

The Speed of Light
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Illinois, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

There are two main settings for this book, Barcelona and Illinois – and deals with experiences from the Vietnam War. An anonymous narrator guides us along, with Rodney Falk, a Vietnam War Veteran. They meet in the late 80s...

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