Blogs in March 2026

Falling for Saigon 24th March 2026

A series of love letters (short essays) to Ho Chi Minh City — still known as Saigon to locals. A long-term resident of the city, the author knows the city well and captures what it feels like to live...

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My Other Heart 20th October 2024

May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before they would land back home on Vietnamese soil. While they prepare to board, the...

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Dust Child 24th June 2023

Four lives, entwined forever by decisions made in a time of conflict. But what happens decades later when they unexpectedly converge once more?  Trang and Quynh: sisters who leave their rural village for the bustling city of Saigon, desperate to find...

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Too Far From Antibes 28th April 2022

It is 1951, and Jean-Luc Guéry has arrived in Indochina to investigate the murder of his brother, Olivier, whose body was found floating in a tributary of the Saigon River. As an avid reader of detective fiction, Guéry is...

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Play The Red Queen 10th November 2020

Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not...

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