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Catfish and Mandala

Catfish and Mandala
  • Author(s): Andrew X Pham
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

‘Jack Kerouac meets “Wild Swans”.’ The Times. A voyage through Vietnam’s ghost-ridden landscape, at once a moving memoir, travelogue and compelling search for identity. Vietnamese-born Andrew Pham finally returns to Saigon, not as a success showering money and gifts...

Caught in Traffick

Caught in Traffick
  • Author(s): Freya Barrington
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

In her previous book, Known to Social Services Freya Barrington gave us a frighteningly realistic insight into the harrowing world of the child protection social worker. Based on her own experiences, the book was a revelation and occupied the...

Change of Lifestyle

Change of Lifestyle
  • Author(s): Anthony Addis
  • Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leaving behind the woman he loved and his teaching job in London, Gabe Shaw flies to Indonesia. And with good reason. Focused and alone – except for Marshall Law, an Indonesian cat with attitude – he finds the perfect...

Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet 2)

Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet 2)
  • Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

In Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist – and full of heartbreak, suspense, love, and fury. Pramoedya immerses the reader in a world that is astonishing...

Child of Dust

Child of Dust
  • Author(s): Yigal Zur
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Dotan Naor Thriller 3 In a gripping thriller that exposes the dark underbelly of paradise, Israeli investigator Dotan Naor is thrust into a treacherous web of deceit when he takes on the case of Eden, a wealthy young...

City of Small Blessings

City of Small Blessings
  • Author(s): Simon Tay
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

City of Small Blessings won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2010. A film project based on the novel has been chosen to be part of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation Atelier.A Singaporean retires, migrates and then returns. But,...

Close Encounters of the Traveling Kind

Close Encounters of the Traveling Kind
  • Author(s): Amanda Jayne
  • Location(s): South America, Japan, Nepal, South Africa, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

This collection of near-death (and a few almost-near-death) stories take you on adventures in Africa, South America, Nepal, Japan and Thailand. Close Encounters with an angry snake, the edge of an abyss, an unfriendly African tribe, a shady guide...

Crescent Moon Over Laos

Crescent Moon Over Laos
  • Author(s): Mark Boyter
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1990s

Travel writer Mark Boyter’s solo journey through Laos, shortly after it’s re-opening to Western travel and tourism in the early 1990s. Beautifully written in a self-reflective style that looks both at a country and a traveller.

Cry of the Flying Rhino

Cry of the Flying Rhino
  • Author(s): Ivy Ngeow
  • Location(s): Johor, Borneo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): 1995 - 2006

CRY OF THE FLYING RHINO is set in 1996 Malaysia and Borneo, told from multiple viewpoints and in multiple voices. Malaysian Chinese family doctor Benjie Lee has had a careless one night stand with his new employee – mysterious,...

Curse of the Pogo Stick

Curse of the Pogo Stick
  • Author(s): Colin Cotterill
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following a rash moment of insolence, Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos’ reluctant national coroner, confused shaman and disheartened communist, is forced to go on a road trip with Judge Haeng and the Justice Department. While newly pregnant Nurse Dtui and...

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