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Have You Eaten Rice Today?

Have You Eaten Rice Today?
  • Author(s): Apple Gidley
  • Location(s): Australia, England, Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Dual time 1950s and 2010s

The Emergency rubles through the jungles, the kampongs, and towns as the communist uprising in 1950s Malaya adds poignancy to the salutation, ‘have you eaten rice today?’ when hunger drives some terrorists to surrender. Simon Frampton returns to Malaya...

Hearts of Paradise

Hearts of Paradise
  • Author(s): Jason Seear
  • Location(s): Patong Beach
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

This account is based on true events set in Patong Beach, Thailand from 2012. Thailand is a paradise until darkness falls on your dreams. Fellow Australians, Jason follows his old friend Pete for a new lease on life in...

Hey, Joe

Hey, Joe
  • Author(s): Ted Lerner
  • Location(s): Manila
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

An American in Manila – highlights in the city, the jeepneys, the locals, the contrast of rich and poor. A memoir of Manila that truly sets the scene.

Highways and Thai Ways

Highways and Thai Ways
  • Author(s): Carol Nash
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2002

Stealing six weeks away from the family business, a middle-aged couple takes a well-deserved, and long overdue, holiday. With return tickets to Bangkok, a craving for an adventure, a change of clothing, and accommodation booked for the first night...

Holiday in Cambodia

Holiday in Cambodia
  • Author(s): Laura Jean McKay
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Kep, Phnom Penh
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1960s-modern

A collection of short stories, set in Cambodia between the 1960s and the present day, some told from the point of view of Cambodians, others from the point of view of foreign travellers, backpackers and expatriates.

Home

Home
  • Author(s): Leila S Chodori
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1965 - 1998

“An epic saga of families and friends entangled in the cruel snare of history” (Time Magazine) Home examines the tragedy of political exiles during Suharto’s regime (1965-1998) forced out of Indonesia after the 1965 massacre of presumed leftists and...

Hostage to Freedom: The Search for the Siren

Hostage to Freedom: The Search for the Siren
  • Author(s): Richard Sorapure
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): 2002

On a balmy day near noon on Tuesday, February 14, 1764 the East Indiaman ‘The Siren’ came to grief on Brutus Reef in the Sulu Sea. Onboard a rich cargo of 250,000 cases of Ming Dynasty porcelain lay buried...

House of Monstrous Women

House of Monstrous Women
  • Author(s): Daphne Fama
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumoured witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines. Carigara, 1986. Josephine del Rosario is the town...

House of Sticks

House of Sticks
  • Author(s): Ly Tran
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Queens
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century, 21st century

An intimate, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir recounting a young girl’ s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she...

How to Pronounce Knife

How to Pronounce Knife
  • Author(s): Souvankham Thammavongsa
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa’s debut collection, a young girl brings a book home from school and asks her father to help her pronounce a tricky word, a simple exchange with unforgettable consequences. Thammavongsa is a master...

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