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Bad Sons

Bad Sons
  • Author(s): Oliver Tidy
  • Location(s): Romney Marsh
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

David Booker returns to Romney Marsh on the south coast of England for a holiday. He is expecting to spend time helping his aunt and uncle pack up the stock of their second-hand bookshop in preparation for a happy...

Bamboo Heart

Bamboo Heart
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): London, Penang, Singapore, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s and 1980s

The First in the Bamboo Trilogy. Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures endless days of clearing jungle, breaking stone and...

Banco

Banco
  • Author(s): Henri Charrière
  • Location(s): Venezuela
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

‘Banco’ continues the adventures of Henri Charriere – nicknamed Papillon – in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man, Charriere is soon involved...

Bangkok Babylon

Bangkok Babylon
  • Author(s): Jerry Hopkins
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction

Among these 25 profiles of amazing members of Bangkoks expatriate community who transformed themselves after leaving home are an advertising executive who photographs Bangkoks most beautiful bargirls, an insurance agent who became a modern bounty hunter, a Catholic priest...

Bangkok Days

Bangkok Days
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Travelogue

An interesting reflection on the city, Osborne takes the reader to hidden corners of the city, introduces locals and foreigners, and generally writes a cohesive and well observed and well written, a must to have another dimension to understand...

Barcelona Dreaming

Barcelona Dreaming
  • Author(s): Rupert Thomson
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters. The...

Beautiful Country

Beautiful Country
  • Author(s): J R Thornton
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training with Beijing’s Junior National Tennis Team. Chase Robertson arrives in Beijing as a fourteen-year-old boy still...

Beautiful Shining People

Beautiful Shining People
  • Author(s): Michael Grothaus
  • Location(s): Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagano
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Future
  • Era(s): Future

This world is anything but ordinary, and it’s about to change forever… It’s our world, but decades into the future… An ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. There...

Beautiful Ugly

Beautiful Ugly
  • Author(s): Alice Feeney
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife as she’s driving home to share some exciting news. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing....

Behind Putin’s Curtain

Behind Putin’s Curtain
  • Author(s): Stephan Orth
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

“In the late summer of 2016,” writes award-winning travel writer Stephan Orth, “a journey to Russia feels like visiting enemy territory.” In this humorous and thought-provoking book, Orth ventures through that vast and mysterious territory to uncover the real,...

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