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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...

Singapore Burning

Singapore Burning
  • Author(s): Colin Smith
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1942

“The worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history.” Churchill’s description of of the fall of Singapore in 1942, which led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops being captured by the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The...

Singapore Fling

Singapore Fling
  • Author(s): Maida Malby
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Their one torrid weekend tryst is not nearly enough. They want more. French-Filipina beauty Maddie Duvall should be living it up at her challenging new job in glamorous Singapore. But two months after her wild weekend with US Air...

Singapore Noir

Singapore Noir
  • Author(s): Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (editor)
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Say ‘Singapore’ to anyone and you’ll likely hear one of a few words: Caning. Fines. Chewing gum. For much of the West, the narrative of Singapore has been marked largely by its government’s strict laws and unwavering enforcement of...

Sisters under the Rising Sun

Sisters under the Rising Sun
  • Author(s): Heather Morris
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

In the midst of WWII, an English mother, Norah, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Malaya, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific, swiftly overrunning the Allied...

Six Crimson Cranes

Six Crimson Cranes
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Lim
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

A princess in exile. Six enchanted cranes. An unspeakable curse. A beautiful and immersive YA fantasy retelling of the Grimm brothers’ The Six Swans fairytale, set in an East-Asian inspired world, by the author of Spin the Dawn. Shiori’anma,...

Smile As They Bow

Smile As They Bow
  • Author(s): Nu Nu Yi
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Several of Nu Nu Yi’s characters attend the annual Taungbyon Festival in honour of the spirits known as nats, which are central to traditional Burmese religious practice. There is Daisy Bond, a gay, transvestite medium in his fifties, his...

Snow Over Surabaya

Snow Over Surabaya
  • Author(s): Nigel Barley
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Not many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel Stewart Walker did just that. Under a multitude of different names – ‘K’tut Tantri’ and ‘Surabaya Sue’ being the best know –...

Something to read While Travelling- Thailand

Something to read While Travelling- Thailand
  • Author(s): Robert A Webster
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): present day

Something to Read While Travelling is an informative and entertaining companion to accompany you on your travels. Something to Read While Travelling-THAILAND Contains useful information about Thailand, some of which you won’t find in travel guidebooks. Enjoy learning about:...

Somewhere Only We Know

Somewhere Only We Know
  • Author(s): Cathy Bramley
  • Location(s): Bali, Nepal, Sydney, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

When Magnolia Jones finds her daughter’s travel journal, she can think of no better way to honour her life than setting off on the gap year trip that twenty-three-year-old Brontë had dreamed of taking. It was meant to be...

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