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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Location(s): Prague, Geneva, Thailand, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
In this novel – a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities – Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century ‘Being’ In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
From internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War. Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon....
- Location(s): Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
From Hanoi to Saigon, a tale of one woman’s search for a better life – and a thriller that strikes to the merciless heart of post-civil war Vietnam. In the chaos and corruption of 1980s’ Vietnam, three seemingly unconnected...
- Location(s): China, South East Asia, Tibet
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s New Year’s Day and the year isn’t kicking off well for Tansy: her mother’s dead, she’s a cocaine addict and her boyfriend has just left her. A trip around the world seems like the only option except that...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
What happens when an adoring young bride is met on the doorstep of her new home by her husband s former mistress? Frank, Rose and Nony are about to find out. It is 1924 and the British rule Malaya....
- Location(s): Thailand, The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
Timothy Mo’s first novel in a decade is set within the battle for secession in the Muslim regions of southern Thailand.It’s narrated for the most part by Snooky, a Thai Ladyboy. Pure covers epic expanses of time and is...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Mandalay
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Eva Gatsby has often wondered about her grandfather Lawrence’s past, and exactly what happened to him in Burma during the Second World War. But it is only when Eva’s job as an antiques dealer suddenly requires a trip to...
- Location(s): Exmoor, Finland, Koh Phi Phi, Krabi, Serbia, The Outback
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Late 1900s through 2004 to 2014
How far would you go for the one you love the most? A stormy love affair. A secret. A discovery that changes everything … Louise Fenton flies to a devastated Thailand to search for her mother, missing following the...
The Beauty of Humanity Movement
- Location(s): Hanoi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s onwards
“They say that the history of Vietnam can be found in a bowl of pho, and from his handcart- kitchen, Old Man Hu’ng makes the best in all Hanoi. But a striking young Vietnamese-American woman – Maggie Ly –...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
What happens when a bunch of murderous gringos are let loose on a third-world country? The country is Vietnam and the war has escalated into a technological bloodbath. Lyndon Johnson is in the White House and each night on...
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