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Derailed in Uncle Ho’s Victory Garden: Travels in Cambodia and Vietnam

Derailed in Uncle Ho’s Victory Garden: Travels in Cambodia and Vietnam
  • Author(s): Tim Page
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1960s/70s

A colourful time of Page’s time in Vietnam and Cambodia, peppered with the parlance of the day, and insightfully written.

Dog Soldiers

Dog Soldiers
  • Author(s): Robert Stone
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, New Mexico, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action – and profit – by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go...

Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton

Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton
  • Author(s): David McMillan
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Reality of life in a Thai prison

Ghost Money

Ghost Money
  • Author(s): Andrew Nette
  • Location(s): Phnom Penh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Max Quinlan is an Australian ex-cop turned PI whose latest case is to find missing business Charles Avery. The trail leads to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Along the way Max will team up with an Australian journalist...

It’s Just Love

It’s Just Love
  • Author(s): Jessica E Larsen
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Serene Ramos is a self-confessed, “straight-laced” Filipina teenager who loves rules and order, but puts on a bad-girl act at school to satisfy her more extroverted identical twin, Trinity. The two of them start playing a dating game where...

Latitudes of Longing

Latitudes of Longing
  • Author(s): Shubhangi Swarup
  • Location(s): Central Asia, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

In the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young botanist tends to a fragile rose he has imported to welcome his bride. Hoping their marriage will bloom in this strange life, hundreds of miles from the east coast...

Manila Boy

Manila Boy
  • Author(s): Patrick Everard
  • Location(s): Manila
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Twenty-something and gay, Blue has sold up his London flat and gone to live in Manila, vibrant capital of the Philippines – home to hustlers, ladyboys, and a notorious criminal underworld. Blue desires sex and adventure, and very quickly...

Pohon Setan

Pohon Setan
  • Author(s): Ben Brown
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

We were so pleased to add this book to our database, as it ticks so many of the boxes for us at TripFiction. A good storyline that would be even better read in location, in Vietnam: evocative of location...

The Risk of Infidelity Index

The Risk of Infidelity Index
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

In the Land of Smiles, things are rarely as they seem. Calvino, an outsider, is fighting hypocrisy, prejudice and corruption

The Symphony Of Souls (A Novella)

The Symphony Of Souls (A Novella)
  • Author(s): Geraldine Solon
  • Location(s): Seattle, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After losing his three-year-old son, Gabriel, Jake Palmer’s life crumbles as his wife, Veronica, abandons him, leaving him to navigate the depths of grief alone. Struggling to find comfort, Jake’s best friend Luke extends a lifeline in the form...

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