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Bali Daze

Bali Daze
  • Author(s): Cat Wheeler
  • Location(s): Bali, Ubud
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Beyond beaches and backpackers, spas and five star hotels is a Bali seldom revealed to the casual visitor. Bali Daze tips the reader off the tourist trail as long-term resident Cat Wheeler hurtles into the fascinating, complex and often...

Balilicious

Balilicious
  • Author(s): Becky Wicks
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A lot can happen when you set out to “find yourself”. Sometimes, you can even lose the plot. From visiting ancient healers with cellphone addictions to leaving a shaking ashram intent on extracting her soul, Becky Wicks soon discovered...

Bamboo Grove

Bamboo Grove
  • Author(s): Romy Wood
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A pseudo-Buddhist monk, an illegal immigrant, a bipolar teenager and a quixotic pair of young businessmen are all bound by Eastern Vision, an empire selling everything from faux-Eastern objets to real estate, from client-centred sperm-donation to gypsy magic. A...

Bangkok Bob and The Missing Mormon

Bangkok Bob and The Missing Mormon
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Long-term Bangkok resident and former New Orleans cop Bob Turtledove has a knack for getting people out of difficult situations. So when a young man from Utah goes missing in Bangkok, his parents are soon knocking on Bob’s door...

Beat not the Bones

Beat not the Bones
  • Author(s): Charlotte Jay
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Suicide, or murder? Newly arrived in Papua, where even the luscious vegetation conspires with the bureaucrats to confuse her, Stella Warwick is determined to prove her husband did not take his own life. Defying the patronising concern of officials, she...

Behind the Night Bazaar

Behind the Night Bazaar
  • Author(s): Angela Savage
  • Location(s): Chiang Mai
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

Australian Jayne Keeney works as a PI in Bangkok. Shaken by a serious incident, she heads north to visit her close friend Didier in Chiang Mai, though there’s no relief for her there. Murder is in the air and...

Bellies

Bellies
  • Author(s): Nicola Dinan
  • Location(s): Cologne (Köln), Kuala Lumpur, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. Tom and Ming meet on a night out at university and fall hard for each other. It’s not long before they are planning a future and building a life. Then Ming...

Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899 – 1903

Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899 – 1903
  • Author(s): Stuart Creighton Miller
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 19th and 20th Centuries

American acquisition of the Philippines and Filipino resistance to it became a focal point for debate on American imperialism. In a lively narrative, Miller tells the story of the war and how it challenged America’s sense of innocence.

Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green
  • Author(s): Amélie Skoda
  • Location(s): Bethnal Green, London, Penang
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Penang, 1971. When Suyin is offered the opportunity of a lifetime – a place as a trainee nurse in London’s Bethnal Green hospital – she jumps at the chance to leave her job as a seamstress and unite with...

Black Sun, Red Moon

Black Sun, Red Moon
  • Author(s): Rory Marron
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

An ambitious, unconventional, compelling saga of men at war, captivity, forced prostitution, murder, political dirty tricks and mob terror in Japanese-occupied and revolutionary Indonesia. Rory Marron’s Black Sun, Red Moon gives us an almost tangible glimpse of the chaos...

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