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Thai Girl

Thai Girl
  • Author(s): Andrew Hicks
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Koh Chang, Koh Samet
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When travellers Ben and Emma come to blows on the idyllic Thai island of Koh Samet, it s not long before Ben falls for Fon, a flirtatious but enigmatic beach masseuse, and is forced to come to terms with...

The Separation

The Separation
  • Author(s): Dinah Jefferies
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A country at war with itself, a family divided and betrayed, a bond that can never be broken… Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where...

Ghostwritten

Ghostwritten
  • Author(s): Isabel Wolff
  • Location(s): Java, St Mawes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Jenni is a ghost writer. It’s a job that suits her well. Still haunted by a childhood tragedy, she finds it easier to take refuge in the memories of others than to dwell on her own. Klara was a...

A Harvest of Thorns

A Harvest of Thorns
  • Author(s): Corban Addison
  • Location(s): Bangladesh, Dhaka, Malaysia (Malaya), Virginia, Washington DC
  • Era(s): Modern

A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of...

A Short Ride in the Jungle

A Short Ride in the Jungle
  • Author(s): Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

‘For the first time in my life I felt that death was a possibility; a stupid, pointless, lonely death on the aptly named Mondulkiri Death Highway.’ The Ho Chi Minh Trail is one of the greatest feats of military...

Bamboo Heart

Bamboo Heart
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): London, Penang, Singapore, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s and 1980s

The First in the Bamboo Trilogy. Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures endless days of clearing jungle, breaking stone and...

Bangkok Babylon

Bangkok Babylon
  • Author(s): Jerry Hopkins
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction

Among these 25 profiles of amazing members of Bangkoks expatriate community who transformed themselves after leaving home are an advertising executive who photographs Bangkoks most beautiful bargirls, an insurance agent who became a modern bounty hunter, a Catholic priest...

Bangkok Days

Bangkok Days
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Travelogue

An interesting reflection on the city, Osborne takes the reader to hidden corners of the city, introduces locals and foreigners, and generally writes a cohesive and well observed and well written, a must to have another dimension to understand...

Black Water

Black Water
  • Author(s): Louise Doughty
  • Location(s): California, Indonesia, Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to...

Chickenhawk

Chickenhawk
  • Author(s): Robert Mason
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

Most of us have experienced the Vietnam War through TV – fires, bombings, B-52s. This book vividly takes you to the Vietnamese villages of Vietnam. He describes the people involved in the conflict, mostly North & South Vietnamese and...

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