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Tribute to Brunei and Other Poems

Tribute to Brunei and Other Poems
  • Author(s): John Onu Odihi
  • Location(s): Brunei
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): Modern

In this new collection of poetry, Tribute to Brunei and Other Poems, the verses represent the synoptic capture of particular environments and incidents, as well as author John Onu Odihi’s reflection of them. Presented in a rich texture of...

Tropical Redemption

Tropical Redemption
  • Author(s): Rylee Wynter
  • Location(s): Lombok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A perfect getaway on an idyllic tropical island doesn’t always come as advertised… When Jake arrived on the island of Gili Trawangan he thought he had found paradise. With his train wreck of a marriage left far behind, he...

Tua and the Elephant

Tua and the Elephant
  • Author(s): Randal Harris
  • Location(s): Chiang Mai
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Ten-year-old Tua—Thai for “peanut”—has everything she needs at home in Chiang Mai, Thailand, except for one thing she’s always wanted: a sister. In the market one day, Tua makes an accidental acquaintance—one with wise, loving eyes, remarkable strength, and...

Tunnel Vision

Tunnel Vision
  • Author(s): Jimmy Thomson
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Present day

This is the second Danny Clay crime “caper” which takes the ex-Army engineer turned TV writer, and his Vietnamese sidekick Zan, to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) where a former army buddy has become embroiled in a property deal...

Tunnels of Cu Chi

Tunnels of Cu Chi
  • Author(s): Tom Mangold, John Penycate
  • Location(s): Cu Chi Province, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Vietnam War

At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to...

Turtle Beach

Turtle Beach
  • Author(s): Blanche d'Alpuget
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Two women, two worlds. Together they must risk everything Judith Wilkes, an ambitious journalist, leaves her husband and two sons in Australia and goes to Malaysia to report on the international refugee crisis. Ten years earlier, Malaysia provided Judith...

Twilight in Kuta

Twilight in Kuta
  • Author(s): David Nesbit
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

When young western tourist Neil meets Indonesian girl Yossy on Kuta beach and decides to settle permanently in Bali he knows his life is about to change forever … but will it be the paradise he is yearning for?...

Under Water

Under Water
  • Author(s): Tara Menon
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Environmental
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

A stunning and deeply moving literary debut of grief, loss and female friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic natural events. When five-year-old Marissa loses her mother, she is taken by her father to live on a small Thai island in the Andaman...

Venom

Venom
  • Author(s): Saneh Sangsuk, Mui Poopoksakul (translator)
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The village of Praeknamdang, nestled in the Thai jungle, has fallen under the spell of Song Waad, the self-proclaimed medium of The Sacred Mother. Living in fear of his connection to the Patron goddess, the villagers offer up land...

Wandering Souls

Wandering Souls
  • Author(s): Cecile Pin
  • Location(s): England, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

An extraordinary, original and heartbreaking debut novel about the bonds that connect people even when separated by seas or death itself, from a thrilling new voice. There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies –...

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