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Manila Harbour

Manila Harbour
  • Author(s): Martin Granger
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A documentary film crew try to get to get to the root of the thefts of ships the size of skyscrapers. Their investigation leads them to the Far East where they discover corruption, mayhem and murder. Based on a...

Noli Me Tangere: (Touch Me Not)

Noli Me Tangere: (Touch Me Not)
  • Author(s): José Rizal
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 1900s

In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder,...

Oceans on Fire

Oceans on Fire
  • Author(s): Martin Granger
  • Location(s): Hawai'i, Guam, Marshall Islands, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Nathalie Thompson’s cameraman doesn’t show up at the airport alarm bells start to ring. But, with a TV commission on the table and a job to do she sets off across the world to make a documentary on...

Once Upon a Sunset

Once Upon a Sunset
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Diana Gallagher-Cary is at a tipping point. As a Washington, DC, OB/GYN at a prestigious hospital, she uses her career to distract herself from her grief over her granny’s death and her breakup from her long-term boyfriend after her...

One More Chance At Love

One More Chance At Love
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): St Lucia, Australia, Guatemala, Mallorca, San Francisco, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Thirty years ago, as teenagers, lawyer, Bobby McLean and travel writer, Sicora Clarke shared an intense love affair and had a happy future planned. But when Sicora ended it with no explanation and Bobby never heard from her again,...

Orchid House

Orchid House
  • Author(s): Cindy Coloma
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Love in a foreign land. A decaying hacienda full of secrets. And a woman searching for the story of her life. A funeral and some family business–that’s what Julia Bentley expects when she travels to the Philippines to bury...

Patron Saints of Nothing

Patron Saints of Nothing
  • Author(s): Randy Ribay
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin’s murder. When Jay Reguero hears of his cousin Jun’s death, everything changes. Although years have passed since they...

Salamanca

Salamanca
  • Author(s): Dean Francis Alfar
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Dean Alfar’s first novel is about the sorcery wrought by love, lust, and literature, by friendship, family, and the Filipino nation. Salamanca streaks across decades and spaces, tracking the stormy relationship between polymorphous-perverse Gaudencio Rivera, whose passions ignite prodigious...

The Blue Afternoon

The Blue Afternoon
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1900s looking back

A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . . Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When confronted, he explains that his name is Salvador Carriscant –...

The Island at the End of Everything

The Island at the End of Everything
  • Author(s): Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): timeless

Amihan lives on Culion Island, where some of the inhabitants – including her mother – have leprosy. Ami loves her home – with its blue seas and lush forests, Culion is all she has ever known. But the arrival...

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