Alan Brayne: 3 books

Graham Young’s gin-soaked life in Jakarta is a dull but comfortable existence, even after the bloody riots that mark the fall of the Soeharto regime. But a chance meeting in a bar with an obnoxious and creepy ex-pat hurls him headlong into a nightmare from which there seems no escape. Hounded by...

About the Book Life is fab for gay white men on the beaches of Bali, where a beer or a boy is never far away. At the heart of Kuta's gay scene stands Klub Aloha, where Jack and his troupe of ageing western queens perform tacky drag each week. But the arrival of a strange and secretive tourist, and...

Less than a month after the celebrations of Millennium Night, the island of Lombok – sister to its famous neighbour, Bali – is torn apart by riots, part of the religious and ethnic tensions that are threatening the stability of the whole of Indonesia. After a life spent wandering the world,...