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- Location(s): Bali
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 19th century
This book is recommended as a way of getting to know a little about the history and culture of Bali. Not only does it succeed in this, but it also proved a heart-warming and hugely readable story of one man’s...
- Location(s): Angkor (Siem Reap), Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 12th Century
Pure and beautiful, she glows like the moon behind clouds.” The time is the 12th Century, the place Cambodia, birthplace of the lost Angkor civilisation. In a village behind a towering stone temple lives a young woman named Sray,...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ten-year-old Singaporean Maya is lonely: her grandmother is dead, her mother is focused on her career and her best friend has become a bully. When Aunty M, a domestic worker from Indonesia, joins the family to take care of...
Almayer’s Folly: a story of an Eastern River
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
This is Joseph Conrad’s first novel and it sets the style that he adopts throughout his literary life. He describes the unravelling of flawed characters against a backdrop of dramatic proportions. Conrad’s powers of description are remarkable with the crisis in...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Conrad used his experience within the British empire to write novels and stories that often used the sea and navy as a setting, juxtaposing the individual human spirit with the collective duty and honor of the British navy.
- Location(s): India, South East Asia, Surrey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1794
In the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting. Now a true Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero’s...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The Caldwell household, set against the dying regime of the Marcos family with its horror and abuse of its people.
- Location(s): South East Asia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s/Modern
It’s 2003, and Cath Pearson is on the run through south east Asia. But from what? It’s 2013, and rock star Jack Wolf has just tried to commit suicide. He begins a search for the one girl he loved...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A pseudo-Buddhist monk, an illegal immigrant, a bipolar teenager and a quixotic pair of young businessmen are all bound by Eastern Vision, an empire selling everything from faux-Eastern objets to real estate, from client-centred sperm-donation to gypsy magic. A...
- Location(s): Cologne (Köln), Kuala Lumpur, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Contemporary
It begins as your typical boy meets boy. Tom and Ming meet on a night out at university and fall hard for each other. It’s not long before they are planning a future and building a life. Then Ming...
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