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Phra Farang

Phra Farang
  • Author(s): Phra Peter Pannapadipo
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 21st century

At forty-five, successful businessman Peter Robinson gave up his comfortable life in London to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Bangkok. But the new path he had chosen was not always as easy or as straightforward as he hoped...

Play The Red Queen

Play The Red Queen
  • Author(s): Juris Jurjevics
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not...

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
  • Author(s): George MacDonald Fraser
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

George MacDonald Fraser–beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels–offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war’s final year, and he offers a first-hand...

Ramadan Sky

Ramadan Sky
  • Author(s): Nichola Hunter
  • Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A contemporary twist on a classic story of forbidden love, set in Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia. When Vic accepts a teaching position in Jakarta, she has already been working and travelling in Asia for many years; she thinks...

Return to Paradise

Return to Paradise
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): Koh Phi Phi
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000 / contemporary

Some memories last a lifetime. Some secrets should stay buried. In 2000, four backpackers – Beth, Claire, Jez, and Max – meet on the sun-drenched shores of Phayom Beach, Thailand. Their gap year travels doing the banana pancake trail...

Return To The Go-Go

Return To The Go-Go
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • Location(s): Pattaya, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Return to the Go-Go is the second volume of insights by Pattaya veteran Khun Pobaan into everyday life in Thailand’s extreme city. The first collection, If You Can’t Stand the Fun, Stay Out Of The Go-Go, gathered together essays...

Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder
  • Author(s): Mark Berent
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1965-1973

In Rolling Thunder, the time is late 1965 and 1966 in war zone places such as Saigon, Hanoi, Bien Hoa, Da Nang, and Tahkli. Back in Washington, LBJ sits over lunch and personally picks bombing targets in an attempt...

Rose and the Burma Sky

Rose and the Burma Sky
  • Author(s): Rosanna Amaka
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

One war, one soldier, one enduring love 1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria at the brink of world, young Obi watches from a mango tree as a colonial army jeep speeds by, filled with soldiers laughing and shouting,...

Rumaysa: A Fairytale

Rumaysa: A Fairytale
  • Author(s): Radiya Hafiza, Areeba Siddique (Illustrator), Rhaida El Touny (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Era(s): N/A

Step into a Once Upon a Time where anything is possible . . . Radiya Hafiza’s enchanting and funny debut weaves together three stories, spinning the classic fairytale to show that anyone can be a hero. ‘Rumaysa, Rumaysa, let...

Run Me to Earth

Run Me to Earth
  • Author(s): Paul Yoon
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as, “one of those rare novels that stays with us to...

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