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Orchid House

Orchid House
  • Author(s): Cindy Coloma
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Love in a foreign land. A decaying hacienda full of secrets. And a woman searching for the story of her life. A funeral and some family business–that’s what Julia Bentley expects when she travels to the Philippines to bury...

Our Man in Malaya

Our Man in Malaya
  • Author(s): Margaret Shennan
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

When the Japanese invaded Malaya during the Second World War, it seemed that John Davis service in the country had come to an end. But nothing could have been further from the truth. Davis switched from the Federated Malay...

Out in the Midday Sun

Out in the Midday Sun
  • Author(s): Margaret Shennan
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880 - 1960

The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain’s colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two...

Out of Sight

Out of Sight
  • Author(s): Martin Granger
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Kazakhstan, Malaysia (Malaya), Spain, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When rogue junk collides with a television satellite 22000 miles into space cosmologist Harry Stones approaches film director Nathalie Thompson to make an investigative documentary. Undeterred by Harry’s lack of sight, their quest leads them from the peaks of...

Overboard

Overboard
  • Author(s): Ivy Ngeow
  • Location(s): Cambodia, London, Singapore, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thailand. An epic storm. A shipwreck. A white man has been found alive. But who is he? Suffering horrific injuries and burns, he is taken to a local hospital. He is mute. Everything is a blank. They tell him...

Passport to Death

Passport to Death
  • Author(s): Yigal Zur
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Dotan Naor Thriller Book 2 In a world of shadows, it is easy to get lost Dotan Naor, an Israeli private investigator, ousted from Shin Bet—Israel’s internal security service—goes to Thailand to find Sigal Bardon, a beautiful young...

Passport to Happiness

Passport to Happiness
  • Author(s): Carrie Stone
  • Location(s): Bali, Bermuda, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern Day

An inspiring and escapist read – Eat, Pray, Love meets Bridget Jones! Will the trip of her dreams… Become the journey of her lifetime? Everly Carter is bored. With her job, with her single status and with the never...

Patron Saints of Nothing

Patron Saints of Nothing
  • Author(s): Randy Ribay
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin’s murder. When Jay Reguero hears of his cousin Jun’s death, everything changes. Although years have passed since they...

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • Location(s): Japan, Australia, Austria, Cambodia, France, Hong Kong, Malaysia (Malaya), New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is short fiction for busy people who love to travel. Six of the stories are set in Japan, and the others in Hong Kong, East Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, France, Austria, the...

Phnom Penh Noir

Phnom Penh Noir
  • Author(s): Various
  • Location(s): Phnom Penh
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

Authors: Roland Joffé, James Grady, John Burdett, Christopher G. Moore, Kosal Khiev, Prabda Yoon, Bopha Phorn, Giancarlo Narciso, Christopher West, Richard Rubenstein, Suong Mak, Andrew Nette, Bob Bergin, Neil Wilford and Christopher Minko. Many noir anthologies have inspired writers...

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