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Jasmine Fever: Confessions of a Jaded Expat in Thailand

Jasmine Fever: Confessions of a Jaded Expat in Thailand
  • Author(s): Frank Visakay
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

When New York chef Frank Visakay traded in the sweaty heat of the restaurant kitchen for the glorious tropical heat of Thailand, he thought he had found paradise. Not only was the lifestyle laid back, the food delicious and...

Jazz, Perfume & the Incident

Jazz, Perfume & the Incident
  • Author(s): Seno Gumira Ajidarma
  • Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste), Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In Jakarta’s gleaming center a man and a woman watch each other from adjoining skyscrapers. The man, a journalist, has on his desk reports he doesn’t dare publish of a massacre in East Timor. He contemplates the demands of...

Jim Thompson: The Unsolved Mystery

Jim Thompson: The Unsolved Mystery
  • Author(s): William Warren
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Biography, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1967

On Easter Day, 1967, American businessmen and founder of the modern Thai silk industry James H. W. Thompson disappeared while supposedly on a stroll in the jungle-clad Cameron Highlands in Central Malaysia. Neither Jim Thompson nor his remains has...

John Dollar

John Dollar
  • Author(s): Marianne Wiggins
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1917

Charlotte Lewes, a young Briton newly widowed by the Great War, departs for colonial Burma in 1917 to escape the ruins of her life. As a schoolteacher in Rangoon she is rejuvenated by the sensuous Oriental climate, and she...

Joss and Gold

Joss and Gold
  • Author(s): Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1969

At the center of this engaging “un-love” story is Li An, a smart and strong-willed Malaysian woman of Chinese descent. The conflicts that surround Li An in the politically charged atmosphere of Kuala Lumpur in 1969 intersect with her...

Journeys with the caterpillar: Travelling through the islands of Flores and Sumba, Indonesia

Journeys with the caterpillar: Travelling through the islands of Flores and Sumba, Indonesia
  • Author(s): Shivaji Das
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“The crowd lined up along the street, shoulder to shoulder, back to front. Fathers held up their boys over their shoulders. The older children climbed up the trees to have a better view. The pressure of the crowd was...

Kaya’s Heart Song

Kaya’s Heart Song
  • Author(s): Diwa Tharan Sanders, Nerina Canzi (illustrator)
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Age range 3 to 9 Let me tell you a secret – if you have a heart song, anything is possible. Even magic! Kaya is looking for her heart song – the song that happy hearts sing. Her search...

Kebaya Tales

Kebaya Tales
  • Author(s): Lee Su Kim
  • Location(s): Penang
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kebaya Tales is a delightful collection of short stories, teeming with fascinating and interesting characters, unexpected twists and turns, cultural rituals, beliefs and superstitions and poignant events in the life stories of the Peranakans. Lee Su Kim’s book brings...

Kick

Kick
  • Author(s): Mitch Johnson
  • Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Children

Winner of the Branford Boase Award. Budi’s plan is simple. He’s going to be a star. Budi’s going to play for the greatest team on earth, instead of sweating over each stitch he sews, each football boot he makes....

Kiss of the Tsunami

Kiss of the Tsunami
  • Author(s): Rachel Rivers Porter
  • Location(s): Phuket
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Boxing Day tsunami 2004

A gripping story of survival in the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. ‘Kiss of the Tsunami’ is a journey through dark to light, love and loss. In the midst of death and destruction, two people from very different cultures are...

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