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A crime novel set in Thailand, about a desperate man who joins a scheme to loot an ancient temple.

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In the fourth and final volume of the The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is the English concu...

Amidst the struggles of war-torn Singapore, the chaos of the Malayan Emergency and the violence o...

In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, senior anthropologist at The British Museum, set off for the relativel...

Updated edition, with 42 historical photos, 6 maps and a new introduction by the author. A detail...

Set against the backdrop of 1830s Singapore where piracy, crime, triads and tigers are commonplac...