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- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Taken prisoner by a ruthless group of anarchists deep in the Cambodian jungle, anthropologist Jocelyn Hewitt is isolated in a dark prison cell. Without chance of rescue. Or hope. Until the man in the next cell reaches out to...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1968 onwards
Early in the morning of 16 March 1968, a company of around 120 US infantrymen, later to be described as a “normal cross-section of American youth”, entered a village on the central coastal plain of South Vietnam and killed...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1770s
Voyaging to 1774 Annam, the exotic south China region that came to be known as Vietnam, three missionaries find their dreams of colonial glory dissolving in their discoveries of the area’s sophisticated culture and violent instability.
- Location(s): Bangkok, Belgium, Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A young Cambodian returns home. A diamond shipment goes missing. A foreign assassin arrives in Phnom Penh. And then there s chocolate lots of it. Phirun is determined to make it as Cambodia s first chocolate chef. But things...
Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
THe Khmer Rough came into being in the 1950s, becoming infamous for ruthlessness and guerrilla tactics. During the height of power they are thought to have murder 2 millioin people in the late 1970s. 1979 they were forced out...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1970s
Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam’s film, “The Killing Fields”, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. These years in Camodia influenced how Swain re-evaluated life and death in this country,...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1970s
Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he’s tired of being Laos’s national coroner, a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he’s pushing eighty, and wants to...
- Location(s): Belley, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s, 1930s
Saigon in the 20s, Paris in the 30s, this is the story of loss and exile. Paris in the household of Gertrude Stein, and Saigon the homeland. A touchingly evocative novel.
- Location(s): Cambodia, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Romance
- Era(s): 1920s
Shanghai, 1925. Irene, a museum curator (and, unofficially, a treasure hunter) is searching for a set of legendary copper scrolls which describe the forgotten history of Cambodia’s ancient Khmer civilisation. Her mentor has sent her to China to enlist...
- Location(s): Mekong Delta
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency’ Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world’s...
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