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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 Bondmaid

The Bondmaid
  • Author(s): Catherine Lim
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

A little girl -Han is sold, aged four, as a boundmaid or slave into the House of Wu, where she grows up and falls in love with the young heir. But the idyll of childhood attachement turns into a...

The Bone Ritual

The Bone Ritual
  • Author(s): Julian Lees
  • Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Taut and suspenseful, The Bone Ritual is the first in a crime series set in contemporary Jakarta Ruud Pujasumarta has seen some gang-perpetrated horror crimes in his time, but the slum murder of a middle-aged woman he is called...

The Bridge Over the River Kwai

The Bridge Over the River Kwai
  • Author(s): Pierre Boulle
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1942

1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one...

The Burnings

The Burnings
  • Author(s): Julian Lees
  • Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

With discovery comes certain death… When Australian Jillian Parker’s scorched remains are discovered in her burnt-out car Ruud Pujasumarta and his team are brought in to investigate what appears at first to be a routine homicide. But when Canadian...

The Canal House

The Canal House
  • Author(s): Mark Lee
  • Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

Photojournalist Nicky Bettencourt thinks he’s seen everything until he teams up with the legendary war correspondent Daniel McFarland. To Daniel, the story is everything; people come later. But after a plane crash nearly takes his life, Daniel begins to...

The Cats We Meet Along the Way

The Cats We Meet Along the Way
  • Author(s): Nadia Mikail
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Dystopian
  • Era(s): N/A

Seventeen-year-old Aisha hasn’t seen her sister June for two years. And now that a calamity is about to end the world in nine months’ time, she and her mother decide that it’s time to track her down and mend...

The Christmas Holiday

The Christmas Holiday
  • Author(s): Maxine Morrey
  • Location(s): Florida, India, London, Malaysia (Malaya), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As winter comes to London, journalist Mia Walker is desperately hoping for her big break as a travel writer, dreaming of exotic locations and sun-soaked beaches. When she’s invited to write a romantic travel piece that ends in a...

The Colour of Things Unseen

The Colour of Things Unseen
  • Author(s): Annee Lawrence
  • Location(s): Sydney, Java, Yogyakarta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

When Adi leaves his village in Indonesia to take up an art scholarship in Australia, he arrives in the bewildering Sydney art world, determined to succeed. Following his first solo exhibition at a smart art gallery, Adi dares to...

The Coroner’s Lunch

The Coroner’s Lunch
  • Author(s): Colin Cotterill
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1970s

The Dr Siri Paiboun series by Brit ex-pat Colin Cotterill has been joyously received, both for its humour, and its intriguing historical setting, in newly communist 1970s Laos. The books start when 72-year-old Siri is forced to become the...

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