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Farang: Thailand Through the Eyes of an Ex-pat

Farang: Thailand Through the Eyes of an Ex-pat
  • Author(s): Iain Corness
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Does what it says on the cover! A look at Thailand through the eyes of a non-Thai. Amusing, entertaining and perceptive.

Fishing For Stars

Fishing For Stars
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): Sydney, Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Nicholas Duncan is a semi-retired shipping magnate who resides in idyllic Beautiful Bay in Indonesia, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his beautiful Eurasian wife, Anna, and is...

Float the Boat

Float the Boat
  • Author(s): Mark S Ehrlich
  • Location(s): Washington DC, Indonesia, Lake Winnipesaukee
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1984~1985 (told through flashbacks) and December 2017

It’s December 2017 and consultant Nick Harmon is screwed. When he finds his ex-flame murdered the night before a reunion, police suspect he’s the long-hibernating Surf Club Killer. Nick has his own theory too: that Adnan Sulaiman, the event’s...

Flying Through Midnight

Flying Through Midnight
  • Author(s): John T Halliday
  • Location(s): Laos, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

A former 606 Special Operations Squadron member recounts his 1970 top-secret combat mission over the Laotian Ho Chi Minh Trail, during which fellow pilots and he struggled for survival by utilizing daredevil piloting tactics to outmaneuver thousands of anti-aircraft...

Following the Wrong God Home

Following the Wrong God Home
  • Author(s): Catherine Lim
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In modern-day Singapore, a successful society upheld by stern government and a respectful population, a young woman is about to break all the rules. Yin Ling, enigmatic, beautiful, and engaged to the wealthy, politically ambitious Vincent Chee, falls in...

Four Fires

Four Fires
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): Australia, Borneo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Four fires: passion, religion, warfare and fire itself. Along with love – perhaps the brightest flame of all – these four fires drive the human spirit. In a small town much like any other around Australia live the Maloneys....

Four Reigns

Four Reigns
  • Author(s): Kukrit Pramoj
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s to WW2

This English version of the Thai novel Si Phaendin tells the rich and entertaining story of one woman’s life both inside and outside the royal palace in Bangkok. Spanning a period of four reigns, from King Chulalongkorn to the...

FUNU : The Unfinished Saga Of East Timor

FUNU : The Unfinished Saga Of East Timor
  • Author(s): Jose Ramos-Horta
  • Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1986

A personal story by the Nobel Peace Prize Winner on the shocking genocide of the Timorese people at the hands of the Indonesian occupants.

Going After Cacciato

Going After Cacciato
  • Author(s): Tim O'Brien
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Vietnam War and aftermath

Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciatocaptures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars. In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier...

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • Location(s): Japan, Australia, Bali, China, Fiji, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of short fiction fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and peopled with wily, quick-witted, dim-witted, hapless, helpless, strong and gentle characters. These are tales about people with...

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