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Diwata

Diwata
  • Author(s): Barbara Jane Reyes
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tagalog is a language spoken by twenty-two million people in the Philippines. Diwata is a Tagalog term meaning “muse.” Diwata is also a term for a mythical being who resides in nature, and who human communities must acknowledge, respect,...

Dogboy v Catfish

Dogboy v Catfish
  • Author(s): Luke Gracias
  • Location(s): Australia, Portugal, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1999 / 2015

On the day of her second wedding, Katherine Fisher, aka ‘Catfish,’ set the date for her divorce. In precisely 18 months, she would be entitled to half of their combined assets and receive maintenance payments until her five-year-old daughter,...

Doing Life Differently in Thailand

Doing Life Differently in Thailand
  • Author(s): Mel Pike
  • Location(s): Phuket
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2023

Realising in her early fifties that she needed to do life differently for a while, Mel seizes the opportunity of a few months with no responsibilities in her happy place, Thailand. Among the sun-soaked streets of Phuket’s Kata Beach,...

Don’t Get Caught

Don’t Get Caught
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Jack Shepherd is the kind of lawyer people call a troubleshooter. At least that’s what they call him when they’re being polite. Shepherd is the guy people go to when they have a problem too ugly to tell anyone...

Dreaming Of… Bali

Dreaming Of… Bali
  • Author(s): Tara Pammi, Fiona McArthur, Leah Ashton
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hot-Blooded brothers For Rafaele Falcone emotions play no part in his decisions so he asks Samantha Rourke to join his company, even though he walked away from her years before. That sexy Italian accent still sends shivers down her...

Drugs To Forget

Drugs To Forget
  • Author(s): Martin Granger
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), Indonesia, United Kingdom, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Filmmaker Nathalie Thompson’s programme on bioterror takes her from the desolate interior of Zimbabwe to the Indonesian jungle. Posing as a Western activist she attempts to expose a terrorist group and their involvement in an unusual outbreak of Ebola…...

Dumb Luck

Dumb Luck
  • Author(s): Vu Trong Phong
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
  • Era(s): 1930s

Banned in Vietnam until 1986, Dumb Luck–by the controversial and influential Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung–is a bitter satire of the rage for modernization in Vietnam during the late colonial era. First published in Hanoi during 1936, it follows...

Durga/Umayi

Durga/Umayi
  • Author(s): Y B Magunwijaya
  • Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

This scathingly satirical and hilarious novel, first published in Indonesia in 1991, affords both a blithely irreverent overview of Indonesian history in the Sukarno and Suharto eras and brilliant insights into the postcolonial condition. The story begins in the...

Dust Child

Dust Child
  • Author(s): Que Mai Phan Nguyen
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s to present day

Four lives, entwined forever by decisions made in a time of conflict. But what happens decades later when they unexpectedly converge once more?  Trang and Quynh: sisters who leave their rural village for the bustling city of Saigon, desperate to find...

Earth Dance

Earth Dance
  • Author(s): Oka Rusmini
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Earth Dance, the story of four generations of Balinese women, centers on conflicts that arise between the demands of caste and personal desires. Narrated by Ida Ayu Telaga, a Balinese woman in her thirties, the novel shows Balinese women-as...

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