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Running Wild

Running Wild
  • Author(s): Michael Morpurgo
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The epic and heart-rending jungle adventure from the nation’s favourite storyteller Michael Morpurgo. For Will and his mother, going to Indonesia isn’t just a holiday. It’s an escape, a new start, a chance to put things behind them –...

Sacred Skin – Thailand’s Spirit Tattoos

Sacred Skin – Thailand’s Spirit Tattoos
  • Author(s): Tom Vater, Aroon Thaewchatturat
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sacred tattoos, called ‘sak yant’ in Thailand, have been around Southeast Asia for centuries and afford protection from accident, misfortune, and crime. Young women get tattooed with love charms in order to attract partners, while adolescent men use the...

Saigon Dark

Saigon Dark
  • Author(s): Elka Ray
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Good and bad. Life and death. Some choices aren’t black and white A grief-stricken young mother switches her dead child for a Vietnamese street kid, then spends the next decade living a lie. She remarries and starts to feel...

Salamanca

Salamanca
  • Author(s): Dean Francis Alfar
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Dean Alfar’s first novel is about the sorcery wrought by love, lust, and literature, by friendship, family, and the Filipino nation. Salamanca streaks across decades and spaces, tracking the stormy relationship between polymorphous-perverse Gaudencio Rivera, whose passions ignite prodigious...

Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem

Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
  • Author(s): Emilio Salgari
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1849

Would you be the greatest pirate in the South China Sea or would you hang up your sword to be with the woman you love? Malaysia, 1849. The Tigers of Mompracem are a band of rebel pirates fighting for...

Saving Fish From Drowning

Saving Fish From Drowning
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Inle Lake
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

On an ill-fated art expedition of the Southern Shan State in Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas morning tour – and disappear. Through the twists of fate, curses and just plain human error, they...

Shaman of Bali

Shaman of Bali
  • Author(s): John Greet
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adam Milan washes up on the coast of Bali after being forced off a yacht at gunpoint by a psychotic captain. He is taken in by Anak, a Balinese hotel owner and healer. During his recuperation Adam is reported...

She kept the bar between them

She kept the bar between them
  • Author(s): Steve Rosse
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

With his eyes still closed he waited while she considered whether to serve him or throw him out. She approached him, and by the slowness of her approach he knew she had not made up her mind. He opened...

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
  • Author(s): Wole Talabi
  • Location(s): Lagos, London, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The British Science Fiction Award-nominated and Nebula Finalist debut novel from Wole Talabi. This contemporary fantasy is filled with the mythos of Nigeria and features Yoruba gods liberating an artefact from the depths of the British Museum. Shigidi is...

Silk Umbrellas

Silk Umbrellas
  • Author(s): Carolyn Marsden
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th century

Eleven-year-old Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend many rapt hours in the jungle watching as Kun Ya paints delicate silk umbrellas to sell at the market. But one day Kun...

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