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The Last Executioner

The Last Executioner
  • Author(s): Chavoret Jaruboon
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s / early 21st century

Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates in Thailand’s infamous prisons. As a boy, he wanted to be a teacher like his father, but his life changed when he chose one of the hardest jobs in...

The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza

The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza
  • Author(s): Cyril Wong
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The stunning first novel from award-winning poet Cyril Wong, The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza is an exceptional examination of the power of choice and the unreliability of memory. One last time and on her birthday, Rose de...

The Last Reunion

The Last Reunion
  • Author(s): Kayte Nunn
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Galway, London, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945, 1976, 1999

War would bring them together. But would it ultimately tear them apart? Burma, 1945. Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and Lucy are five young women looking for adventure, fighting a forgotten war in the jungle attached to the Fourteenth Army....

The Last Time I Saw Mother

The Last Time I Saw Mother
  • Author(s): Arlene J Chai
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

“AN OFTEN LYRICAL AND ALWAYS TOUGH-MINDED DEBUT . . . Provides rare insight into the three cultures–Spanish, Chinese, and Filipino–that coexist in the Philippines.” –The New York Times Book Review Caridad’s mother never writes. So when a letter arrives...

The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure

The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure
  • Author(s): Carl Hoffman
  • Location(s): Borneo
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1960s - present day

Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization—or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these...

The Light That Bends Round Corners

The Light That Bends Round Corners
  • Author(s): Alexandra Carey
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Laura, a successful fashion journalist based in London, finds herself uprooted from the world she knows and loves after she moves with her husband and two small children to a dilapidated bungalow in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Behind the house...

The Little Book of Sanuk: The Thai Secret to a More Joyful Life

The Little Book of Sanuk: The Thai Secret to a More Joyful Life
  • Author(s): Karen Sinotok
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

We all need a little more sanuk in our lives Sanuk is a Thai concept that can loosely be translated as meaning ‘fun’. Though sanuk is in fact much more than that; it’s about achieving pleasure and joy in...

The Lizard Cage

The Lizard Cage
  • Author(s): Karen Connelly
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Teza once electrified the people of Burma with his protest songs against the dictatorship. Arrested by the Burmese secret police in the days of mass protest, he is seven years into a twenty-year sentence in solitary confinement, cut off...

The Lonely Hearts Travel Club (Destination Thailand

The Lonely Hearts Travel Club (Destination Thailand
  • Author(s): Katy Colins
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Mderner

Instead of slipping on her something borrowed and tripping up the aisle to wedded bliss, Georgia spends her big day crying into a warm Sex-on-the-Beach, wondering where it all went wrong. Forced to make a bucket list of her...

The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy

The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
  • Author(s): Anthony Burgess
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): post WW2

A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism. Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy...

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