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Survival in the Killing Fields

Survival in the Killing Fields
  • Author(s): Haing S. Ngor
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

Haing Ngor survived the labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. This is his life under the Khmer Rouge, an evocative and heart rending book about the descent of his country into hell. War slaves, execution squads, brutality beyond measure, squalor,...

Sweet Offerings

Sweet Offerings
  • Author(s): Chan Ling Yap
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 1930s and 1960s

Set in the late 1930s and 1960s, this is the tale of Mei Yin, a young Chinese girl from an impoverished family. Her destiny is shaped when she is sent to Kuala Lumpar to become the ward and companion...

Sweet Song of the Siren

Sweet Song of the Siren
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A murderer who sees himself carved in stone, a writer whose dead wife returns to him through time, a robot community waiting for their saviour, a man who falls in love with his own penis, a woman dying slowly...

Teak Lord

Teak Lord
  • Author(s): Ron Emmons
  • Location(s): North Thailand
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

A tale of piety, greed, debauchery and equanimity in a remote Asian kingdom. It’s 1875 and Chiang Mai, capital of Lanna, is a cultural crossroads of Buddhist monks and Christian missionaries, of spirit doctors and opium smokers, of seductive...

TENDER TREACHERY #2

TENDER TREACHERY #2
  • Author(s): H Y Hanna
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A second chance at love, an exclusive island retreat, a secret worth killing for… Leah finally makes the decision to leave her life in London and move halfway across the world to reunite with the handsome, enigmatic Toran James....

Thailand: The Lotus Kingdom

Thailand: The Lotus Kingdom
  • Author(s): Alistair Shearer
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue

This book gives an insight into the Thailand of today. It details the history, culture and contemporary predicament of a traditional Buddhist society struggling to preserve its integrity in the face of change. The author evokes the atmosphere of...

The Balloon Thief

The Balloon Thief
  • Author(s): Aneesa Marufu
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Burn the flame. Seek the night. For Khadija, the only escape from her father’s arranged betrothal is the sky. When she spots a rogue hot air balloon fighting against its ropes, she leaps at the chance for adventure. Khadija...

The Beaten Track

The Beaten Track
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...

The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)

The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)
  • Author(s): Ovidia Yu
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Singapore is agog with the news of King Edward VIII’s abdication to marry American heiress Wallis Simpson. Chen Su Lin, now Chief Inspector Le Froy’s secretarial assistant in Singapore’s newly formed detective unit, still dreams of becoming a journalist...

The Black Gentlemen of Trong Suan

The Black Gentlemen of Trong Suan
  • Author(s): John McMahon
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In southern Thailand a young man arrives in a small town during a lightening storm with nothing more than his wits, a small fortune and an old mans diary. He sets up what appears to be an idle life...

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