Asian hanging lanterns from Indochine

John Swain Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam’s film, “The Killing Fields”, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also [...]

Maria Coffey Having lived and worked in Vietnam, then travelled the length of the country I was drawn to this book to see if it reflected my own experiences. Maria Coffey and her husband did their travelling the hard way, by boat with locals and cycling up, and along, the hazardous highways. The text is [...]

Bao Ninh This is the semi-autobiographical account of a soldier’s experiences. The hero of the story, Kien, is a captain. After 10 years of war and months as an MIA body-collector, Kien suffers a nervous breakdown in Hanoi as he tries to re-establish a relationship with his former sweetheart.

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 [...]