Thailand 1942: Sirinya and her family are members of the Thai underground, who risk their lives to resist the World War Two Japanese occupation and to and help British prisoners of war building the Thai-Burma railway. The events of those years have repercussions for decades to come. The book tells Sirinya's wartime story and how in the 1970s she returns to Kanchanaburi after a long absence abroad, to settle old scores from the war years. Bamboo Road is volume three in a Southeast Asian WWII trilogy that includes Bamboo Heart and Bamboo Island (the books may be read in any order).

When a vengeful spirit terrorizes a mountain village, a ninja and a Jesuit must save the villagers from the phantom’s wrath. January 1566: En route to Edo, Master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo spend the night in a rural mountain village whose inhabitants live in terror of a legendary vengeful ghost. When the innkeeper's wife is murdered and Father Mateo’s housekeeper, Ana, is blamed for a crime she did not commit, Hiro and Father Mateo are forced to investigate and reveal the truth. But when another woman turns up murdered in the snow, the detectives must face the shocking truth that the vengeful yurei the villagers fear might be more than just a legend after all.

Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures endless days of clearing jungle, breaking stone and lugging wood. He must stay alive, although he is struck down by disease and tortured by Japanese guards, and he must stay strong, although he is starving and exhausted. For Tom has made himself a promise: to return home. Not to the grey streets of London, where he once lived, but to Penang, where he found paradise and love. London, 1986: Laura Ellis, a successful City lawyer, turns her back on her yuppie existence and travels to Southeast Asia. In Thailand and Malaysia she retraces her father’s past and discovers the truths he has refused to tell her. And in the place where her father once suffered and survived, she will finally find out how he got his Bamboo Heart. In a blend of stirring fiction and heart-wrenching history, Ann Bennett narrates the story of a soldier’s strength and survival in the bleakest of times and a daughter’s journey of discovery about her father and herself. Bamboo Heart is volume one in a Southeast Asian WWII trilogy that includes Bamboo Island and Bamboo Road.

Juliet Crosby has lived a reclusive life on her Malayan rubber plantation since the Second World War robbed her of everyone she loved. However, the sudden appearance of a young woman from Indonesia disrupts her lonely existence and stirs up unsettling memories. Juliet is forced to recollect her prewar marriage, her wartime ordeals in Japanese-occupied Singapore and the loss of those she once held dear. Bamboo Island is part of a Southeast Asian WWII trilogy of historical fiction that can be read in any order and includes Bamboo Heart and Bamboo Road.

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This book entitled Bamboo: The Timber of the 21st Century assessed comprehensively the local supply situation of bamboo and provides key marketing information from primary and secondary sources. Scope includes industries using bamboo as raw material, bamboo species and bamboo resources in various regions of the Philippines, estimated area with bamboo stands, the extent of bamboo forest area, and bamboo master plan, among others. Insights about the international market were obtained from personal interviews with experts. Moreover, several barriers were identified. Furthermore, It is a comprehensive assessment of the state of the bamboo industry and how it can transform itself to be the timber of the 21st century. It concerns itself with providing a roadmap for the government and the private sector in revolutionizing the bamboo sector of the country. It is therefore directed first and foremost to policymakers responsible for the future of the industry. It also serves as a briefing paper for everyone else interested in the logic of the bamboo industry. Conrado S. Perreras is an economist by training, a marketer by profession, and an entrepreneur by choice. An advocate for life in protecting and preserving the environment, overall wellness, and good governance, Perreras is dubbed as "The Bamboo Warrior" of the Philippines. He wrote this book for business people and entrepreneurs wanting to get into the business of bamboo: establishing nurseries, developing plantations, harvesting, and processing of bamboo into handicrafts, furniture, and most especially engineered bamboo products where the future of the industry belongs. It is a roadmap that describes where we are and where we are going, how we will get there, how much it will cost, and who is responsible for making things happen.