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Lost in Laos

Lost in Laos
  • Author(s): Lydia Laube
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Global traveller Lydia Laube had out her map again. Where could she go next? Her eye fell on one place she hadn’t visited – Laos, the Land of a Million Elephants. After enduring a close call with Thai immigration...

Love Songs from a Shallow Grave

Love Songs from a Shallow Grave
  • Author(s): Colin Cotterill
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1970s

Septuagenarian Siri Paibun is, the only coroner in Laos and is investigating the death of three Laotian women, who have duelling wounds.

Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic

Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic
  • Author(s): Lauren Ho
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucie Yi has tried love – it didn’t work. She’s decided that finding Mr Right is a myth, and that finding Mr Right-enough-to-have-children-with is the next best option. So when she meets easy-going Collin Read on a platonic co-parenting...

Lucky Child

Lucky Child
  • Author(s): Loung Ung
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Vermont
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography
  • Era(s): Late 1970s onwards

A sequel to the best-selling memoir First They Killed My Father, written by a spokesperson for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, describes her family’s experiences of relocation from war-torn Cambodia and assimilation in Vermont, a transition marked by...

Lydia’s Song

Lydia’s Song
  • Author(s): Katherine Blessan
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lydia’s quiet expat life in Cambodia is dramatically turned upside down by the sudden arrival of Song, a young & vulnerable Vietnamese girl, and the flattering romantic attentions of a handsome, dashing local man. Just as she settles into...

Malee: A Tear in the Ocean

Malee: A Tear in the Ocean
  • Author(s): William McAllister
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Koh Samui, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A novel of international romance. Michael could not have known when he flew into Bangkok to launch a new company that his life would change so dramatically. Working on million dollar negotiations during the day and spending tropical nights...

Mango and Sticky Rice

Mango and Sticky Rice
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A photographer hired to witness a murder, a colour-blind sperm donor, a ghost who misses his friends, a Canadian who pretends he’s from Latvia, and a woman sure her children’s will be the last human generation—these are just some...

Manila Harbour

Manila Harbour
  • Author(s): Martin Granger
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A documentary film crew try to get to get to the root of the thefts of ships the size of skyscrapers. Their investigation leads them to the Far East where they discover corruption, mayhem and murder. Based on a...

Many Lives

Many Lives
  • Author(s): Kukrit Pramoj
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

“That night, the rain poured and wind howled, raindrops crashing like solid objects onto the ground and water. A passenger boat from Ban Phaen to Bangkok, packed with people, pressed on through the current amidst the rising clamor of...

Marina Bay Sins

Marina Bay Sins
  • Author(s): Neil Humphreys
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Inspector Stanley Low – belligerent, bipolar and brilliant. A Chinese-Singaporean, educated in London, with a foot in both cities. His mission, to eradicate violent crime wherever he finds it. Low is having a bad day. His bipolar disorder...

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