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The Cove

The Cove
  • Author(s): Alice Clark-Platts
  • Location(s): Pulau Sibu
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pulau Kalah is a fictional island off the eastern coast of Malaysia. Inspired by Pulau Sibu near Tioman IT’S THE PERFECT ESCAPE… UNTIL THERE IS NO ESCAPE Welcome to Turtle Cove. A luxury resort surrounded by pristine sea and...

The Crossing

The Crossing
  • Author(s): Luis Cardoso
  • Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s / 1990s

East Timor hit the world’s newspaper headlines in August 1999 after its bloody, brave vote for independence from Indonesia – one of the great expressions of a people’s democratic spirit and its oppression. Before that – as a Portuguese...

The Crow: Temple of Night

The Crow: Temple of Night
  • Author(s): S P Somtow
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The Eternal One At our human limits, when we’ve gone as for as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One. The Crow. His alabaster delicate features tell of his ivory goddess ancestry. Immemorially old, and...

The Dancer

The Dancer
  • Author(s): Ahmad Tohari
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in the tumultuous days of the mid 1960s, “The Dancer” describes a village community struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world. It also provides readers with a ground-level view of the political turmoil and human tragedy leading...

The Dead American

The Dead American
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

They steer a tight ship in squeaky-clean Singapore. No dissent, no opposition, no criticism. It’s like an entire country run by Walt Disney. Disneyland with the death penalty, somebody once called it. A young American software engineer hangs himself...

The Deadly Embrace

The Deadly Embrace
  • Author(s): Simon Eyre
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In the second book in this pulsating thriller series, Daniel Sawyer is once more thrust into danger. This time the people he loves are being held hostage and he must travel to Kuala Lumpur to save them. But not...

The Disaster Tourist

The Disaster Tourist
  • Author(s): Yun Ko-Eun
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Mui
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately she tries to complain,...

The Eaves of Heaven

The Eaves of Heaven
  • Author(s): Andrew X Pham
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s to 1975

A searing memoir by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala offers a portrait of his father’s experiences over the course of three wars–the French occupation of Indochina, the World War II Japanese invasion, and the Vietnam War–as he...

The Eloquence of Desire

The Eloquence of Desire
  • Author(s): Amanda Sington-Williams
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

“I have just stumbled onto the nicest surprise” – Susan Abraham “an atmospheric novel with thought provoking themes” – Bookish Magpie “A good read” – Book Pleasures “For those who know me, giving a book a 5 is something...

The End of October

The End of October
  • Author(s): Lawrence Wright
  • Location(s): Indonesia, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A race-against-time thriller, as one man must find the origin and cure for a new killer virus that has brought the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with a mysterious...

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