Blogs in October 2017

Hunters in the Dark 8th October 2017

Robert Grieve – pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher – decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand to Cambodia, he tests the threshold of a new...

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Saigon Dark 26th September 2017

Good and bad. Life and death. Some choices aren’t black and white A grief-stricken young mother switches her dead child for a Vietnamese street kid, then spends the next decade living a lie. She remarries and starts to feel...

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Music of the Ghosts 16th August 2017

Harrowing but a clear reminder of US intervention in SE Asia politics. Follows a family escaping after Pol Pot becomes the leader in Cambodia.

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Crescent Moon Over Laos 31st July 2017

Travel writer Mark Boyter’s solo journey through Laos, shortly after it’s re-opening to Western travel and tourism in the early 1990s. Beautifully written in a self-reflective style that looks both at a country and a traveller.

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Spice 11th June 2017

This thrilling unpredictable, yet sometimes hilarious quest will have you mesmerised. Ben Bakewell, the master pâtissier at one of London’s leading restaurants, befriends Ravuth, a refugee from the killing fields of Cambodia who fled to England as the Khmer...

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