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Bamboo Island

Bamboo Island
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): Bangka Island, Kuala Lipis, Penang, Singapore, Sumatra
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s, 1940s 1960s

Malaysia 1962: Juliet Crosby, a plantation owner’s wife, has lived a reclusive life on her Malaysian rubber plantation since the Second World War robbed her of everyone she loved. The sudden appearance of a young woman from Indonesia disrupts...

Bamboo People

Bamboo People
  • Author(s): Mitali Perkins
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Chiko isn’t a fighter by nature. He’s a book-smart Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. When Chiko is forced into the army by trickery, he must find the courage to survive the...

Bamboo Road (Bamboo Trilogy 3)

Bamboo Road (Bamboo Trilogy 3)
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): Kanchanaburi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and 1970

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...

Bandoola: The Great Elephant Rescue

Bandoola: The Great Elephant Rescue
  • Author(s): William Grill
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In this moving tale based on a true story, award-winning William Grill’s stunning illustrations show the majesty of Myanmar’s forests and mountains, the backdrop to a heart-warming tale about empathy between humans and animals, and the strength that can...

Bangkok 8

Bangkok 8
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities. Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under...

Bangkok Delusions

Bangkok Delusions
  • Author(s): Zach J Brodsky
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Scott Marshall was something of a cliché. Divorced and alone he headed to Bangkok in search of something, anything. Ting, shy and innocent caught his eye. She smiled at him. For the first time in his life Marshall left...

Bangkok People

Bangkok People
  • Author(s): James Eckhardt
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Beautifully written accounts of the people Eckhardt has met in Bangkok

Banyan Moon

Banyan Moon
  • Author(s): Thao Thai
  • Location(s): Florida, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present back to the 1960s

A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens and buried secrets. When Ann Tran gets the call that her beloved grandmother, Minh, has...

Beach Rivals

Beach Rivals
  • Author(s): Georgie Tilney
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One bookshop in paradise. Two sworn rivals. A whole summer to get through… Clare thought that by now she would have her life figured out. Instead, she’s living with her parents, working a job she hates and has absolutely...

Beauty Is a Wound

Beauty Is a Wound
  • Author(s): Eka Kurniawan
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1965 onwards

The English-language debut of Indonesia’s rising star. The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset...

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