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- Location(s): Bethnal Green, London, Penang
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Penang, 1971. When Suyin is offered the opportunity of a lifetime – a place as a trainee nurse in London’s Bethnal Green hospital – she jumps at the chance to leave her job as a seamstress and unite with...
- Location(s): Java
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
An ambitious, unconventional, compelling saga of men at war, captivity, forced prostitution, murder, political dirty tricks and mob terror in Japanese-occupied and revolutionary Indonesia. Rory Marron’s Black Sun, Red Moon gives us an almost tangible glimpse of the chaos...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
There is a short period in everyone’s life when his character is fixed forever . . . ‘ George Orwell Eric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma. Nineteen years old, unusually tall, a diffident...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Take a middle-aged white man and send him on holiday to the Philippines with some friends and then be prepared for some surprises, but not the ones you might expect…. Okay, he is no saint, but nor is he...
- Location(s): Rosales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 19th / Early 20th century
With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called the first great Filipino novels written in English. Set in the 1880s, Dusk records...
- Location(s): Bali, India, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Liz’s memoir who- after her marriage breakdown – takes off for a year and goes to mull over her life in three destinations: Italy, India and Indonesia (Bali). Italy is about the pleasure of eating, India is about finding...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Set mainly during the pre-martial law era of the 1950s, the story takes its reader back to the arrogant world of Ermita, the former “rich district” of the Philippine Republic.
- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), Laos, London
- Genre(s): Espionage, Fiction
- Era(s): Post WW2
1949: William Catesby returns to London in disgrace, accused of murdering a ‘double-dipper’ the Americans believed to be one of their own. His left-wing sympathies have him singled out as a traitor. Henry Bone throws him a lifeline, sending...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1960s
They each had their reasons for being a soldier. They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo – Death Before Dishonor – before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts...
Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Fil and Filippa – Story of Child Life in the Philippines at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by John Stuart Thomson is in...
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