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Bamboo Trilogy Series

This historical fiction trilogy transports readers to Southeast Asia during the tumultuous years of World War II. The narratives weave together the intertwined destinies of individuals from diverse backgrounds, thrust into the heart of conflict. Each installment can be enjoyed independently, offering a flexible and compelling exploration of a pivotal era. It's a powerful look at human resilience and the enduring spirit amidst global upheaval.

Bamboo Heart
Bamboo Island

Recommended Reading Order

  • Bamboo Island

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
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    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. However, the sudden appearance of a young woman from Indonesia disrupts her lonely existence and stirs up unsettling memories. Juliet is forced to recount her troubled prewar marriage, her life during the Second World War, hiding from the Japanese in Singapore before being captured and tortured then imprisoned with other British and Australian POWs in Changi, and the loss of those she once held dear.

    Bamboo Island

  • Bamboo Heart

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
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    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 lugging wood. London, 1986: Laura Ellis, a successful City lawyer, turns her back on her yuppie existence and travels to Southeast Asia. In Thailand and Malaysia she retraces her father's past and discovers the truths he has refused to tell her. And in the place where her father once suffered and survived, she will finally find out how he got his Bamboo Heart. Bamboo Heart is volume one in a Southeast Asian WWII trilogy that includes Bamboo Island and Bamboo Road.

    Bamboo Heart