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Badlands Saloon

Badlands Saloon
  • Author(s): Jonathan Twingley
  • Location(s): North Dakota
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Told from the point of view of a young man on the edge of his life looking off to discover his path, this book is filled with wonderful characters, set in a beautiful landscape.

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 and Blood

Bamboo and Blood
  • Author(s): James Church
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), North Korea, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1997

It is 1997 and North Korea is in the grip of a terrible famine. When the wife of a North Korean diplomat in Pakistan dies under suspicious circumstances, O is told to investigate, with a curious provison: Don’t look...

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...

Bandit Roads

Bandit Roads
  • Author(s): Richard Grant
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

There are many ways to die in the Sierra Madre, a notorious nine-hundred-mile mountain range in northern Mexico where AK-47s are fetish objects, the law is almost non-existent and power lies in the hands of brutal drug mafias. Thousands...

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...

Barcelona Noir

Barcelona Noir
  • Author(s): Adriana V Lopez, Carmen Ospina
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Don’t be fooled – Barcelona, with all its illustrious colour and exterior finery, hasn’t always been able to curb its darker yearnings. Blame it on a bubbling, repressive concoction made with a pinch of Church, a touch of Crown...

Barcelona Skyline

Barcelona Skyline
  • Author(s): David C. Hall
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Barcelona is the stunning background to this unusual novel, sex, a killer uses sex to kill and the investigator likes the best in life. Add art trafficking and you have a good combination to make a good story.

Bastard out of Carolina

Bastard out of Carolina
  • Author(s): Dorothy Allison
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone – christened Ruth Anna Boatwright – lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt’s houses, playing with her cousins on the porch, sipping ice tea, loving her little sister Reece and...

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