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Dream Jungle

Dream Jungle
  • Author(s): Jessica Hagedorn
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

From Publisher’s Weekly: Barbed and alluring, this third novel by Hagedorn (Dogeaters: The Gangster of Love) revolves around the purported discovery of a Stone Age “lost tribe” in the Philippines, and deftly explores late 20th-century Filipino cultural identity. Led...

Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies
  • Author(s): Hwee Hwee Tan
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Trouble often comes with a late-night phone call. So it comes to Mei, a twenty-something Singaporean lawyer about to face the greatest trial of her life. Her English boyfriend Andy, working in Singapore as a teacher, has been arrested,...

Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail

Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail
  • Author(s): Kathryn Bonella
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

From the Back Cover: Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the tongue-in-cheek nickname for Kerobokan Jail, Bali’s most notorious prison. It is a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor. Hotel K has...

Saman

Saman
  • Author(s): Ayu Utami
  • Location(s): Sumatra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Saman is a story filtered through the lives of its feisty female protagonists and the enigmatic “hero” Saman. It is at once an exposé of the oppression of plantation workers in South Sumatra, a lyrical quest to understand the...

The Feng Shui Detective goes West

The Feng Shui Detective goes West
  • Author(s): Nury Vittachi
  • Location(s): London, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

C.F. Wong, the Feng Shui practiioner meets a client onboard a cruise ship. Murder, Chinese Mafia and a commission to check out the balance of a plane owned by the British Government lead him to come into contact with...

The Sorrow of War

The Sorrow of War
  • Author(s): Bao Ninh
  • Location(s): Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

10 years in the war and Kien suffers a breakdown – he has seen too much, experienced the horrors of this particular war. In Hanoi he tries to re-establish a relationship former girlfriend. A truly heart rending story of...

Shouting From The Summits

Shouting From The Summits
  • Author(s): Kala Ramachandran
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s to present

‘Living proof that a stammer need not hold you back’. Leys Geddes Kala Ramachandran struggled with a stammer and it became so debilitating, she thought it would be with her her whole life. But then she embraced mountaineering. And...

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
  • Author(s): Mirinae Lee
  • Location(s): East Asia, North East Asia, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER. At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her...

A Daughter’s Promise

A Daughter’s Promise
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Wartime, 1940s and present day

From award-winning author, Ann Bennett comes a captivating story of love and loss during WW2. A daughter’s promise to her dying father uncovers wartime secrets that cast dark shadows over three generations… In 2015, 90-year old Grace Summers receives...

A Different Sky

A Different Sky
  • Author(s): Meira Chand
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1927

Singapore – a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this inbetween island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese...

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