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The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam’s Most Famous Casualty

The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam’s Most Famous Casualty
  • Author(s): Denise Chong
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1970s

Kim Phuc was nine years old in 1972. Hers is the photo that shot around the world when she ran towards the photographer, severely burned by napalm. Denise Chong describes Kim’s experience and recovery in this astonishing biography and...

The Girl in the Window

The Girl in the Window
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Singapore is a good house in a bad neighborhood. Three hundred million Muslims live in Indonesia and Malaysia completely surrounding the barely five million people living in the secular city-state. Islamic terrorism in Asia may not get much attention...

The Golden Land

The Golden Land
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Shick
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1988 and 2011

Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, this debut novel digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships. When Etta’s grandmother dies, she is compelled to travel to Myanmar to explore complicated adolescent memories of her...

The Half-Child

The Half-Child
  • Author(s): Angela Savage
  • Location(s): Pattaya
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Jayne Keeney is a fiesty thirty-something private investigator who has been living in Bangkok for many years. She has been hired to investigate the alleged suicide of a young Australian woman in a seedy Thai coastal town. Maryanne Delbeck...

The Happiness of Kati

The Happiness of Kati
  • Author(s): Jane Vejjajiva
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Nine-year-old Kati has always lived with her grandparents in the house by the river. Every day she goes to school, brings offerings to the monks, and plays with Tong, the abbot’s nephew. She is happy enough, but something —...

The Healer’s War

The Healer’s War
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Kitty, a nurse, decides to fly out to join the efforts in the Vietnam war. She tends the wounded and gets to know the local populace in a way that the soldiers never can. She is bequeathed an object...

The Honeymoon

The Honeymoon
  • Author(s): Kate Gray
  • Location(s): England, Bali
  • Genre(s): Crime, Domestic Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two happy couples. One dead body. A whole load of secrets. Married life wasn’t meant to start like this. On honeymoon in Bali, you hit it off with another newlywed couple and celebrate your last night at a fancy...

The Honeymoon

The Honeymoon
  • Author(s): Jane E James
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

White beaches, endless cocktails . . . and murder. Samantha: ‘Nathan hired me as his children’s nanny. Now I’m the third Mrs Price. He collects wives like he collects designer suits . . . and tires of them just...

The Honourable Schoolboy

The Honourable Schoolboy
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

This is the second novel in the Karla Trilogy. As the novel begins, George Smiley as head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, having been brought back from retirement to sort out the mess caused by a Soviet mole....

The Hungry Ghost

The Hungry Ghost
  • Author(s): H S Norup
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Freja arrives in Singapore during the month of the hungry ghost, when old spirits are said to roam the streets. She’s struggling to settle into her dad’s new, ‘happy’ family, and dreams only of escaping home and leaving this...

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