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...
Blogs in March 2026
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...
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...
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...
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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