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Burma Sahib

Burma Sahib
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

There is a short period in everyone’s life when his character is fixed forever . . . ‘ George Orwell Eric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma. Nineteen years old, unusually tall, a diffident...

Burmese Days

Burmese Days
  • Author(s): George Orwell
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1880s

This is Orwell sharing in no uncertain terms his views of the rule of the British Empire over Burma. A beautiful character study of Flory, with striking insight – this book is up there with Animal Farm and 1984!

Burmese Lessons

Burmese Lessons
  • Author(s): Karen Connelly
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1996

When Karen Connelly goes to Burma in 1996 to gather information for a series of articles, she discovers a place of unexpected beauty and generosity. She also encounters a country ruled by a brutal military dictatorship that imposes a...

Burn Country

Burn Country
  • Author(s): Michael J McCann
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The latest in a series of barn fires in Leeds County turns ugly when a body is discovered inside the burned-out husk of an old hay barn near the village of Elgin. When the victim turns out to be...

Burned

Burned
  • Author(s): Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Brutalised Victim in the Wilds: A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She’s been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off....

Burned

Burned
  • Author(s): Ellen Hopkins
  • Location(s): Nevada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It all started with a dream. Just a typical fantasy, but for a girl raised in a religious–and abusive–family, a simple dream could be the first step toward eternal damnation. Now Pattyn Von Stratten has questions. Questions about God,...

Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men

Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men
  • Author(s): Souad
  • Location(s): Jordan
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s

“When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her West Bank village, as in so many other villages, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one’s family and is punishable by death. This was her crime....

Burned and Broken

Burned and Broken
  • Author(s): Mark Hardie
  • Location(s): Southend
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An enigmatic policeman – currently the subject of an internal investigation – is found burned to death in his car on the Southend sea front. A vulnerable young woman, fresh out of the care system, is trying to discover...

Burning Angel and Other Stories

Burning Angel and Other Stories
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This first collection of stories by Lawrence Osborne perfectly showcases his talent for tension, atmosphere – and characters out of their depth A naïve young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission...

Burning Country

Burning Country
  • Author(s): Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami
  • Location(s): Syria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2011

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017* In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war zone where foreign journalists...

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