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- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lorraine Anderson was meant to be making a Sunday roast, not swanning off to Thailand, backpack in hand! But when she finds her husband and her best friend in bed together there’s only one thing to do – grab...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The Betrayed tells the story of two sisters who love the same man. As dictatorship and political upheaval ravage the Philippines, the sister’s conflicting passions threaten to lead them to betray not only each other, but all that their...
- Location(s): Banda Aceh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
One year after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Angela finds herself flying into the devastated region of Banda Aceh as a researcher for the UN. Enthusiastic and committed, the young American woman arrives at a place swarming with young aid...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, she rents an apartment at the Kingdom, a glittering high-end complex slowly sinking into its own twilight...
- Location(s): Bay of Islands, Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s and modern
rich, multi-generational saga, set in Singapore and New Zealand. The mysterious disappearance of a young child sets in motion a series of events that will haunt future generations of the family. Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Rangoon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Belle Hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home: a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in 1930s Burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirers. But Belle is haunted by a mystery from...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family’s battle to survive With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Turn 21st Century
In January 2000, nearly a dozen of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted lieutenants gathered secretly in Malaysia at, of all places, a luxurious condominium overlooking a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course. The purpose of this summit meeting of terrorists was...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Hampshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1896 and contemporary
Nancy Roach has fled her dissertation advisor for Paris, where her PhD research is proving fruitless. When her curiosity is piqued by an illustration of “The Parasol Flower” in a 19th century treatise, she is drawn into the life...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): 1990s
First in a quartet. When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched...
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