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Sustenance

Sustenance
  • Author(s): Simone Lazaroo
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Elsewhere Hotel in Bali has the ‘Bali’ lifestyle – exotic, pool, palms, views,everything a holiday dream should be. And the tourist who congregate are all looking to ‘Find Yourself’ the strapline of the hotel., Perpetua de Mello extolls...

The Blue Door

The Blue Door
  • Author(s): Lise Kristensen
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 1940s

‘1942: It was towards the middle of the year when my friends started disappearing…’ On the island of Java, the stirrings of the Second World War in Europe and the angry-looking man called Hitler seem a million miles away...

A Patch of Paradise

A Patch of Paradise
  • Author(s): Gaia Grant
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The desire to leave stressful city life behind and move to a tropical island is, for most, just a dream. Gaia Grant decided to turn that dream into a reality. Packing up her family and travelling through Asia –...

Pohon Setan

Pohon Setan
  • Author(s): Ben Brown
  • Location(s): Java
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

We were so pleased to add this book to our database, as it ticks so many of the boxes for us at TripFiction. A good storyline that would be even better read in location, in Vietnam: evocative of location...

Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail

Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail
  • Author(s): Kathryn Bonella
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

From the Back Cover: Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the tongue-in-cheek nickname for Kerobokan Jail, Bali’s most notorious prison. It is a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor. Hotel K has...

Saman

Saman
  • Author(s): Ayu Utami
  • Location(s): Sumatra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Saman is a story filtered through the lives of its feisty female protagonists and the enigmatic “hero” Saman. It is at once an exposé of the oppression of plantation workers in South Sumatra, a lyrical quest to understand the...

A Sunrise Over Bali

A Sunrise Over Bali
  • Author(s): Sandy Barker
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Home is where the heart is . . . When Jaelee Tan leaves her high-flying PR job in Miami for a sabbatical in Bali, the last thing she expects is for it to become permanent. But when her boss...

Ashes in a Coconut

Ashes in a Coconut
  • Author(s): Bo Kearns
  • Location(s): Bali, Jakarta (Batavia), Java
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

New York City fashion designer Laura Harrison sets aside her career and accompanies her banker husband Jack to Indonesia to save her marriage. En route to Jakarta, they stopover in Bali where she experiences the mysticism and magic of...

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...

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...

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