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The Infinite Plan

The Infinite Plan
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Berkeley, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Isabel Allende’s powerful tale of one boy’s escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and...

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...

The Island of Ted

The Island of Ted
  • Author(s): Jason Cunningham
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Would you give up everything you know to find paradise? That’s the question facing movie producer, Ted LaSalle. After a string of personal tragedies, Ted decides to leave it all behind and purchase his own island off the Philippine...

The Jacaranda Tree

The Jacaranda Tree
  • Author(s): H E Bates
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

This is a reissue of Bates’s acclaimed novel of Burma. During World War II, a small English community are forced to flee when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson, the manager of a rice-mill, organises the evacuation and takes with...

The Japanese Lover

The Japanese Lover
  • Author(s): Rani Manicka
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

A breathtaking and absorbing novel set in Malaya propelled by the superb storytelling instinct of the author of THE RICE MOTHER. Parvathi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and an arranged marriage to a wealthy businessman. But her father...

The Jewel Trader of Pegu

The Jewel Trader of Pegu
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Hantover
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1598

In the autumn of 1598, Abraham, a melancholy young Jewish gem merchant, seeks his fortune far from the imprisoning ghetto walls of Venice. Traveling halfway across the world, he lands in the lush and exotic Burmese kingdom of Pegu—an...

The Journal

The Journal
  • Author(s): R D Stevens
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Laos, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

Ethan Willis is a confused 18 year old who struggles with the uncertainties of life and has embarked on a quest to find his elder sister, Charlotte, who disappeared whilst travelling in South East Asia. Ethan admires and idolises...

The Journey to Paradise

The Journey to Paradise
  • Author(s): Paula Greenlees
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1940s

Singapore, 1948 When Miranda moves to the Alexandra Quarter with her husband Gerry, she hopes it will bring the fresh start they need. Though their life in ex-pat society is full of luxury, Miranda can’t help feeling like an...

The King’s Rifle

The King’s Rifle
  • Author(s): Biyi Bandele-Thomas
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1944

It’s winter 1944 and the Second World War is entering its most crucial state. A few months ago fourteen-year-old Ali Banana was a blacksmith’s apprentice in his rural hometown in West Africa; now he’s trekking through the Burmese jungle....

The Land of Five Towers

The Land of Five Towers
  • Author(s): Ahmad Fuadi
  • Location(s): Java, Sumatra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

A novel inspired by a true story (English Edition) Synopsis: Alif had never set foot outside of West Sumatra. He passed his childhood days searching for fallen durian fruit in the jungle, playing soccer on rice paddies, and swimming...

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