Blogs in August 2020

Saving Fish From Drowning 17th August 2020

On an ill-fated art expedition of the Southern Shan State in Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas morning tour – and disappear. Through the twists of fate, curses and just plain human error, they...

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The Tea Planter’s Club 2nd August 2020

From award-winning author Ann Bennett, comes a heart-breaking story of love and loss set in World War 2 Burma. In 1980, Edith Mayhew, proprietor of the Tea Planter’s Club in Calcutta, is preparing to sell up after years of...

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Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets 6th March 2020

This is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets published in the West, and includes the work of Burmese poets who have been in exile and in prison. The poems include global references from a culture in which foreign...

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Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia’s Forbidden Wilderness 6th March 2020

In 1993, Alan Rabinowitz, called the Indiana Jones of wildlife science by The New York Times, arrived for the first time in the country of Myanmar, known until 1989 as Burma, uncertain of what to expect. Working under the...

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The Jacaranda Tree 6th March 2020

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...

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