Indonesia

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Indonesia Book 1

Bali. Contemporary fiction/romance. Adventure guide Jamie is on assignment in Bali, anticipating weeks of white beaches and lush jungles. But her stay there ends very differently and a year on she can still feel the heat and noise of the nightclub bombings. Looking for a sense of closure, she returns to the island, checking into a local guest house, its owner dealing with his own loss and painful past. And she hasn't been able to forget the man who saved her and the spark between them that helped her immediate recovery. Is he still living there and might she find him?

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Indonesia Book 2

Bali (California, Hawaii & Western Australia). Two sisters, one life-changing journey... … Katie's carefully structured world is shattered by the news that her headstrong younger sister, Mia, has been found dead in Bali - and the police claim it was suicide. With only the entries of Mia's travel journal as her guide, Katie retraces the last few months of her sister's life, and - page by page, country by country - begins to uncover the mystery surrounding her death. What she discovers changes everything. But will her search for the truth push their sisterly bond - and Katie - to breaking point?

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Indonesia Book 3

Indonesia travelogue. A journalist, who first worked in Indonesia as a foreign correspondent, set out in 2011, travelling over 13,000 miles, to rediscover its enduring attraction, and to find the links which bind together this disparate nation. She travels to the less visited Indonesian islands, highlighting and celebrating the diversity of language, cultural beliefs and customs, and religion.

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Indonesia Book 4

Published in 2011, an inside story of Bali’s most notorious jail, Kerobokan prison, nicknamed Hotel K. Home to the infamous and the tragic - terrorists, drug traffickers, tourists, a Balinese King, killers - unlucky travellers housed next to violent criminals. An eye-opening and sobering account.

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Indonesia Book 5

Crime fiction. On secondment to Bali to help with anti-terrorism measures, despite his lack of experience in that field, Inspector Singh wonders what he is doing there. But when a body is found in the wreckage, killed before the bomb went off, it would seem he is involved in the much more familiar territory of a murder investigation. But these things are never as simple as they first seem...

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Indonesia Book 6

Historical fiction. Java. As a child in the Second World War, Klara was interned in a Japanese prison camp on Java during the occupation. Her childhood years unfold in an extraordinary and harrowing story of survival, a story that few people have heard. Years later, Jenni is sent to write Klara's story. But as Jenni and Klara begin to get to know each other, Jenni begins to do much more than uncover a lost girlhood in a neglected part of Second World War history. She is forced to examine her own devastating memories, too. Perhaps, finally, the two women will be able to lay the ghosts of their pasts to rest. A story of survival and love, of memory and hope.

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Available in paperback from July 2024. Please get in touch if you would like the hardback. Sumatra. Historical fiction. 1942. Singapore is falling to the Japanese Army. English musician Norah Chambers places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe. As the island burns, Australian nurse Nesta James joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the HMS Vyner Brooke. After only two days at sea, the ship is bombarded and sunk. Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of Indonesia only to be captured and held in one of the notorious Japanese POW camps, places of starvation and brutality. But even here joy can be found, in music, where Norah's 'voice orchestra' transports the internees from squalor into light. The friendships they build with the dozens of other women in the camps will give them the hope, strength and camaraderie they need in order to stay alive. Based on a true story.

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