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Iban Woman

Iban Woman
  • Author(s): Golda Mowe
  • Location(s): Borneo
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Twenty-year-old Ratai is proud and strong for she is the eldest child of Nuing, the Iban warrior who went to the invisible world and returned alive, and the granddaughter of Bujang Maias, the great headhunter who was raised by...

Letters From Burma

Letters From Burma
  • Author(s): Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma’s borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. Here she celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, actors and everyday people...

Malc’s boy

Malc’s boy
  • Author(s): Shaun Wilson
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Pattaya, Wigton
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Autofiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A stunning, hilarious depiction of northern working-class violent masculinity conveyed – in a skewed way – through the form of experimental literary fiction.’ – Chris Kraus, bestselling author of I Love Dick Malc’s Boy charts a son’s struggle and...

Olivia and Sophia

Olivia and Sophia
  • Author(s): Rosie Milne
  • Location(s): Java, Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore, Sumatra
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Two audacious women; one remarkable man … When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London to make his name and fortune in the tropics, he takes with him his new wife, Olivia, a raffish beauty...

Our Home in Myanmar

Our Home in Myanmar
  • Author(s): Jessica Mudditt
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2012 - 2016

After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012 – just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk...

Ponti

Ponti
  • Author(s): Sharlene Teo
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

2003. Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actress and now a hack medium performing séances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued...

Private Dancer

Private Dancer
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

Thailand 1996. The Year Of The Rat. Pete, a young travel writer, wanders into a Bangkok go-go bar and meets the love of his life. Joy is the girl of his dreams, young, stunningly pretty, and one of the...

Saigon

Saigon
  • Author(s): Anthony Grey
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An epic saga of twentieth-century Vietnam hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “the War and Peace of our age” Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator....

Saint Jack

Saint Jack
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction

An absorbing novel which follows the exploits of an expatriate American stuck in Singapore because he never really goes anywhere else, apart from the Bandung Club.Jack flowers trawls through the streets and underbelly of Singapore.

Selected Short Stories Of Thailand

Selected Short Stories Of Thailand
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The stories in this selection, taken from William Peskett’s four collections, Mango and Sticky Rice, Mist on the Jungle, Sweet Song of the Siren and The Day of the Tiger, cover the different ways in which people look at...

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