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The Foreigner’s Confession

The Foreigner’s Confession
  • Author(s): Lya Badgley
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1970's & 1990's

After a horrific accident shatters her world and leaves her an amputee, American attorney Emily Mclean moves to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to work with landmine survivors. She hopes to reinvent herself in this new land, leaving behind her sense...

The Forgotten Promise

The Forgotten Promise
  • Author(s): Paula Greenlees
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s / 1940s

Malaya, 1920: Two girls make a promise in the shadows of the jungle. A promise that life won’t let them easily keep. Malaya, 1941: Ella is running her late father’s tin mine in the Kledang hills, while Noor works...

The Fortune Teller of Kathmandu

The Fortune Teller of Kathmandu
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Darjeeling, Kathmandu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

A sweeping wartime tale of secrets and love, mystery and redemption, moving from the snow-capped Himalayas to the steamy heat of battle in the Burmese jungle. Perfect for fans of Dinah Jeffries, Victoria Hislop and Rosie Thomas. Hampshire, UK,...

The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)

The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)
  • Author(s): Ovidia Yu
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1936

1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after Acting Governor Palin’s daughter dies suddenly – and in mysterious circumstances – mission...

The Fugitive

The Fugitive
  • Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Written while Pramoedya Ananta Toer was imprisoned by the Dutch for his role in the Indonesian revolution after World War II, The Fugitive was his first major novel and the first to be published in the United States.Set during...

The Gate

The Gate
  • Author(s): Francois Bizot
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

The author is living and studying in Cambodia with his kmer partner and daughter when he and two colleagues are captured by the Khmer Rouge. They are taken deep into the jungle, held on suspicion that they are CIA....

The Ghouls of Calle Goya

The Ghouls of Calle Goya
  • Author(s): Owen Jones
  • Location(s): London, Fuengirola, Norway, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When London banker Frank marries Joy, a spirited young Thai woman with dreams of sun-soaked Spain, a borrowed apartment in Fuengirola seems like the perfect wedding gift. But this quiet street on the Costa del Sol — Calle Goya...

The GILDED TREASON – An Alex Hunt Adventure Thriller

The GILDED TREASON – An Alex Hunt Adventure Thriller
  • Author(s): Urcelia Teixeira
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

ALEX HUNT and SAM QUINN are back for another Action-packed Archaeological Adventure! This time, in the Cambodian jungle! Finding the golden urn was supposed to be easy. Nothing the skilled Alex Hunt and Sam Quinn haven’t done before. But...

The Girl from Ha Giang

The Girl from Ha Giang
  • Author(s): Martin Love
  • Location(s): Ha Giang
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Political
  • Era(s): Modenn

The Girl from the Coast

The Girl from the Coast
  • Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Pramoedya’s The Girl from the Coast tells the story of a beautiful young woman from a fishing village who finds herself in an arranged marriage with a wealthy aristocrat. Forced to leave her parents and home behind, she moves...

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