Max Havelaar – a Dutch civil servant in Java – burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is...

It was meant to be a two-week holiday to celebrate her sister’s birthday, but for Schapelle Corby it ended up a waking nightmare. Arrested at Denpasar airport after marijuana was found in her luggage, she became the victim of...

Art, religion, and anthropology collide in Alderson’s latest art mystery thriller, Rituals of the Dead, Book three of the Adventures of Zelda Richardson series. Art history student Zelda Richardson is working at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam on an exhibition...

The Plot to Assassinate the Israeli Prime Minister At an ancient café in Cairo, two veteran spies plot a covert mission to resolve — once and for all — the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. The pledge: Israel will make...

A withering indictment of Dutch colonialism, Louis Couperus’s The Hidden Force is a vivid portrait of fin-de-siècle moral and social decay. A mystical Javan prince and a promiscuous wife are twin challenges to Dutch Commissioner Van Oudijck’s seemingly impregnable...

Alan Nolan discovers his father’s memoirs and learns the truth about the violent man he despised. In this unsparing family history, Alan distils his father’s life in the Dutch East Indies into one furious utterance. He reads about his...

You are introduced to the pupils at the village school one by one, drawn into each of their stories and struggles, and then you find you are really hooked in to this wonderful story. Set on the island of...

Two sisters, one life-changing journey… There are some currents in the relationship between sisters that run so dark and so deep, it’s better for the people swimming on the surface never to know what’s beneath . . . Katie’s...

What follows is the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break. Yet out of all the violence and misery strange bonds are forged between prisoners – and their gaolers. In a battle for survival...

This Java-set saga of Dutch colonists in the late 1800s is a compelling piece of innovative historical fiction. At its heart is Rudolf Kerkhoven, who finds himself master of a plantation in Java’s Preanger region. Haasse effortlessly combines an...