Historical military novel set in Malaysia and Thailand in the 1950s and centred on the British Gurkha regiments that fought in the Malayan Emergency and the Indonesian Confrontation. Standalone sequel to Operation Janus.
Operation Janus is the first in a trilogy of books involving Gurkha military units. The author, JP Cross, a retired Gurkha colonel, old `jungle hand' and counter-insurgency expert, draws on real events he witnessed during his time fighting in the Malayan Emergency.
Confessional of a Colonial Rubber Planter in 1950s Malaya
Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own personal diary entries, John Dodds memoir offers a fascinating, and amusing, glimpse of life as a colonial rubber planter. With true stories and confessions that would make even Somerset Maugham blush.
Twilight in Kuta explores love, loss and infidelity in present-day Indonesia from a number of perspectives, their stories intertwine throughout the book, and the various narrators offer different interpretations of the events that unfold.
The surreal true story of how a Western teenager came of age in 1960s Bangkok, turned international drug smuggler and walked the prison yards of Thailand’s notorious “Bangkok Hilton”
Adam Milan washes up on the coast of Bali after being forced off a yacht at gunpoint by a psychotic captain. He is taken in by Anak, a Balinese hotel owner and healer. During his recuperation Adam is reported drowned by the media and he sees this as an opportunity for a fresh start in life. Assuming a new identity, Adam takes a job at Anak's hotel ......
On a hot August afternoon in 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (the former name of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five turbulent years. Drawing on both British and Javanese archival sources, this entertaining and highly ......
The story of what would become the tipping point of the Malayan Emergency in favour of the security forces is retold against a background of events in Moscow, Darjeeling, Delhi and Calcutta, where senior communist party members plot to infiltrate Gurkha units and destabilise Malaya.
Set in London, Java, Sumatra, Penang, Malacca and Singapore, this historical novel takes the form of two diaries of Sir Stamford Raffles' two wives: Olivia and Sophia. When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London to make his name and fortune in the tropics, he takes with him his new wife, Olivia, a raffish beauty with a ......
