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Cross Currents

Cross Currents
  • Author(s): John Shors
  • Location(s): Koh Phi Phi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A Thai family, Lek, Sarai, and their three children are making a living on the island of Ko Phi Phi running tourist accommodation. They have taken in a young American, Patch, who is avoiding the law after getting bound...

Death in the Rainy Season

Death in the Rainy Season
  • Author(s): Anna Jaquiery
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Phnom Penh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the rainy season. When a French man, Hugo Quercy, is found brutally murdered, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday drawn to an abrupt halt. Quercy – dynamic, well-connected – was the magnetic head of a humanitarian...

Dragon House

Dragon House
  • Author(s): John Shors
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This book focuses on Qui and Tam, the granddaughter, who is dying of leukemia, and the story of Mai and Minh, two children under the dubious “protection” of an opium-fiend named Loc. Iris picks up where her father left...

Elephant Moon

Elephant Moon
  • Author(s): John Sweeney
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

As the Second World War rages, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and the British rulers prepare to flee. But the human legacy of the British Empire will be left behind in the shape of sixty-two Anglo-Burmese children, born...

Footsteps (Buru Quartet 3)

Footsteps (Buru Quartet 3)
  • Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Betawi. With his enrollment in medical school and the opportunity to meet new people, there...

Forgotten

Forgotten
  • Author(s): Heleyne Hammersley
  • Location(s): Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if you woke up in a strange place and didn’t know who you were? A woman reins consciousness in a Thai hospital unaware of how she got there or who she is. The doctor names her Kai, the...

Fragile Monsters

Fragile Monsters
  • Author(s): Catherine Menon
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920 to present

Mary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She is sharp-tongued and ferocious, with more demons than there are lines on her palms. When Durga visits her in rural Malaysia, she only wants to endure Mary, and the...

From The Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

From The Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
  • Author(s): Pascal Khoo Thwe
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Era(s): 1940s and 1950s

The book traces the author’s life from his Eden-like upbringing, his time at the University in Mandalay when the government started clamping down, and finally his time at Cambridge University. A fascinating and gripping of life in Burma, and...

Her Last Summer

Her Last Summer
  • Author(s): Emily Freud
  • Location(s): Thailand, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No body. No crime? Twenty years ago, Mari vanished while backpacking through Thailand with her boyfriend, Luke. He was accused of murder, but has always insisted he’s innocent. Besides, her body was never found. Now, he’s finally ready to...

House of Glass (Buru Quartet 4)

House of Glass (Buru Quartet 4)
  • Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

With House Of Glass comes the final chapter of Pramoedya’s epic quartet, set in the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the century. A novel of heroism, passion, and betrayal, it provides a spectacular conclusion to a series...

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