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Daddy’s Hobby

Daddy’s Hobby
  • Author(s): Owen Ceri Jones
  • Location(s): Pattaya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand. Typically that...

Dancing with Panthers

Dancing with Panthers
  • Author(s): Patrick C Notchtree
  • Location(s): Northern England, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Adventure
  • Era(s): 1961-1965

When you’re queer, what’s the point in having dreams? When tall, fair, good looking but lonely Mark Martin living in northern England is offered a lot of money in 1961, aged just fourteen, it sets him off in a...

Darkness Falls In Jakarta

Darkness Falls In Jakarta
  • Author(s): Louise Soraya Black
  • Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The death of Claire s parents triggers troubled memories of her past life in Jakarta, a time that Claire has been running away from her whole life. Haunted by guilt and the terrible misunderstandings and accusations that forced her...

Dead Centre

Dead Centre
  • Author(s): Andy McNab
  • Location(s): Somalia, Banda Aceh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

January 2005: Nick Stone is in tsunami hit Banda Aceh on a job to retrieve incriminating evidence of an oil deal. When looters arrive a fight breaks out and a man, Mong, is killed. Nick makes a promise to...

Death in the Kingdom

Death in the Kingdom
  • Author(s): Andrew Grant
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

British agent Daniel Swann fled Thailand after murdering the son of the Kingdom s top underworld boss. Now he is back, ordered by his government to recover a small black box from the bottom of the Andaman Sea. Business...

Decker’s Dilemma

Decker’s Dilemma
  • Author(s): Jack Ambraw
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s/ 1960s

Subic Bay, Philippines. The navy’s Cold War outpost in the western Pacific. The USS Harvey. A bastion of American sea power in the Far East. But Elliott Decker doesn’t give a hoot about all that. He’s been on board...

Deep Blue Sea

Deep Blue Sea
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): London, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Beneath the shimmering surface lies a dark secret… Diana and Julian Denver have the world at their feet. With a blissful marriage, a darling son and beautiful homes in London and the country, Diana’s life, to the outside world,...

Dilemma: Steve Regan Undercover Cop Book 2

Dilemma: Steve Regan Undercover Cop Book 2
  • Author(s): Stephen Bentley
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

When you are undercover, many want to kill you. Sicilian Mafia, Thai Mafia, even the CIA, they all want you dead. Join undercover cop Regan in this emotion-packed roller coaster of a thriller. Steve Regan is back and this...

Dispatches

Dispatches
  • Author(s): Michael Herr
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 1970s

Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching...

Distant Voices

Distant Voices
  • Author(s): John Pilger
  • Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

The centrepiece of this new, expanded edition of his bestselling Distant Voices is Pilger’s reporting from East Timor, which he entered secretly in 1993 and where a third of the population has died as a result of Indonesia’s genocidal...

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