Asian hanging lanterns from Indochine

Bree Lafreniere A record of the Cambodian soul, taking readers into the heart of a horrifying tragedy – one that claimed the lives of Daran Kravanh’s parents and seven siblings and as many as three million other Cambodians. Daran’s talent for playing the accordion saved his own life.

Duong Thu Huong In 1991, after sending abroad a manuscript of her Novel Without a Name – the first novel by a northern veteran to chronicle wide spread disillusionment with the war effort and party leadership, Huong was imprisoned for seven months without trial. This is a piercing and unfogettable tale of the horror and [...]

Duong Thu Huong Duong Thu Huong is a veteran who spent ten years in the tunnels and air raid shelters of central Vietnam, the most heavily bomber area of her country. Huong emerged after the Vietnam war as one of the most widely read and celebrated novelists of her generation. But when her best selling [...]

Mai Elliott Charting the lives of four generations of her family, the author traces her family’s journey through tumultuous change, exploring different strands of Vietnamese history. It begins with her great-grandfather who rose from rural poverty to become an influential mandarin. She tells the reader of childhood hours in her grandmother’s silk shop, and of [...]

Nick Nostitz (Photographer) Not so much “Around the World in 80 Lays” more a jaw-dropping insight into a round-the-clock business culture where anything is possible and where all major credit cards are accepted. Purporting to be more than just a voyeur’s wet dream, this is a portrait of an extraordinary way of life, a study [...]

Krishna Dharma This is a novelisation of the classic. It contains all the essential narrative of the original Sanskrit poem, but written in a contemporary style. Whilst adhering closely to the original, I have tried to make it as readable as possible, using the techniques of character development and dramatisation to draw the reader into [...]

Dave Walker (Compiler), Richard S. Ehrlich (Compiler) TIME magazine hailed its interviews, documentation and investigative journalism as “…an intimate portrait…” of Bangkok’s West-meets-East sex industry and added, “Does love conquer poverty, cultural barriers and the fear of AIDS? Sometimes…” Far Eastern Economic Review magazine said it uncovered a “Freudian whirlpool of sexual fantasies and frustration, [...]

Jim Holmes This series of photographic information books concentrates on the daily lives and experiences of children in different countries around the world. Each book focuses on a particular child’s day: from waking up, through breakfast, going to school, learning, travelling home, playing and getting ready for bed. Huy and Vinh are twins. They start [...]

Bobbie Kalman A title from the LANDS, PEOPLES AND CULTURES series which looks at the inhabitants of Vietnam. Introduces their families, homes, education, language and food, with colour photographs providing an insight into the lives of small highland tribes and ethnic Chinese.

Robert Templer Images of the Vietnam War have proved to be among the most enduring of this century – the naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, bodies lying in the ditches of My Lai. These images and the subsequent myths that have surrounded Vietnam have stifled changes in the way it is seen. For many [...]

Emmanuel Guillon The art of Champa (central and southern Vietnam) thrived from the 2nd to the 9th centuries. It consists chiefly of Hindi and Buddhist deities, carved in high relief from sandstone. This book describes some 100 major sculptures housed in the Da Nang Museum and also provides a historical overview.

Neil Sheehan Amazon.co.uk Review This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America’s failures and disillusionment in Southeast Asia. Vann was a field adviser to the army when American involvement was just beginning. He quickly became appalled at the corruption of the South Vietnamese regime, [...]