Monsoon Books Pte Ltd : 124 books
by Han Suyin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
It is 1948 and the British in Malaya are struggling to put down a Communist uprising and deal with rising nationalism in the colony. Chinese girl Suyin falls in love with a British police officer and is able to see both sides of the war but she sympathizes more with the Communist guerrillas and is critical...
by Frederick Lees
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
It is 1950 and the Federation of Malaya is in the throes of the Malayan Emergency. The British are struggling to defeat the communist terrorists and deal with rising nationalism in the colony. Ferdach O'Haney arrives in Malaya as a young Anglo-Irish man to serve the Federation government, and he is plunged...
by Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
"Jungle Heart" is a short story adapted from the full-length novel "Bamboo Heart" by Ann Bennett, part of a trilogy of WWII historical novels set in Southeast Asia that may be read in any order.
Indiscreet Memories
1901 through the eyes of a colonial Englishman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Indiscreet Memories is one Englishman's true account of life in Singapore from 1901 to 1904. We learn about balls at Government House, rickshaw strikes, and tigers causing havoc in Chinatown; and how historical events such as the death of Queen Victoria and the decision by Straits-born Chinese to discard their towchang (queues) affected the society of the day.
Cement, Cabbages & Cars
Cross-cultural Misadventures in The Land of the Morning Calm (Korea)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
‘Cement, Cabbage and Cars: Cross-cultural misadventures in The Land of the Morning Calm’ is a tale of modern-day South Korea in fictitious prose based on the real-life experiences, travels and adventures of the author and people he has known. The tale takes the reader through a thoughtful yet...
You'll Die in Singapore
The True Account of One of the Most Amazing POW Escapes in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he would die. With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and began an epic two-thousand-mile escape from the island...
My Thai Girl and I: How I found a new life in Thailand
How I found a new life in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This is about how Andrew Hicks met Cat, a ‘Thai girl’ half his age and how they set up home together in her village out in the rice fields of North Eastern Thailand. He'll tell you of toads in the toilet, of ants' eggs for breakfast, how they took up frog farming and how he got married without really...
Late Blossom
A true story of life, loss and love in war-torn Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The tragic irony of America's military adventure in Viet Nam lies in the fact that the two countires were fighting different wars. The Americans were fighting to sever the head of a communist monster they saw as intent on world domination and enslavement to the State. The Vietnamese, in contrast, were...
Pai Naa
The true story of Englishwoman Nona Baker's survival in the Malayan jungle during WWII
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
By the time the British surrendered to the Japanese in February 1942 at the fall Singapore, nearly all white civilians had left Malaya. One remarkable exception to the white flight was Nona Baker, ‘a parson’s youngest daughter’ from Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Nona Baker and her brother, Vin, general...
Buffalo & Breadfruit
Tales of an Unwary Expat in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
As the writer Martin Bradley unwittingly discovers, there is nothing quite like uprooting yourself from your home of fifty-four years in suburban, temperate England and transplanting yourself into rural, equatorial Malaysia. Bradley attempts to make a new life for himself in provincial Malaysia, living...
Thai Girl: A story of the one who said 'no'
A story of the one who said 'no'
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
When travellers Ben and Emma split up in Thailand, Ben falls for a local masseuse and experiences the darker side of tourism, where farmers' daughters sell their bodies in Bangkok bars. Thai Girl is a thought-provoking adventure novel that explores the problems of prostitution and cross-cultural relationships, and reaches its climax in the sultry heat of Thailand’s exotic traveller beaches.
by William Sparrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Sexy, entertaining, and thoroughly informative, this collection of reports offers a glimpse into what is enticing, insightful, and unknown about sex in Asia. It looks at the sex scenes and unseens in the ‘usual suspects’ of Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Japan as well as in less obvious...
by Gerrie Lim
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
In this long-awaited sequel to bestselling “Invisible Trade: High-class sex for sale in Singapore”, Gerrie Lim unravels the secretive double lives led by Singapore’s beautiful, upscale escorts and other sex workers. There’s the girl who works at a public relations agency by day and moonlights...
In the Land of Living Dangerously
Bali, Borneo & Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
With “In the Land of Living Dangerously”, an adventure travelogue set in Indonesia, author Jay Cowan explores myriad issues experienced during his travels in the Indonesian archipelago from culture and history to politics and anthropology, from exotic endemic wildlife and huge environmental challenges...