SCHAPELLE CORBY & BALI’S HIDDEN DRUG WORLD

The inception of Journalist Kathryn Bonella’s best-selling Bali trilogy was after producing a story for 60 Minutes on Schapelle Corby; a 27-year-old Australian beauty school student sentenced to 20 years jail in Bali for drug trafficking. Kathryn had unprecedented access inside the notorious prison, sitting with Schapelle daily for months to write the no.1 bestseller Schapelle Corby – My Story. Internationally titled No More Tomorrows.

Kathryn’s second book Hotel Kerobokan was inspired by the hundreds of hours she spent in Kerobokan Prison with Schapelle, putting her in a unique position as a journalist to tell the story of the bizarre and violent jail. She spent two more years interviewing prisoners, past and present, for her second international bestseller Hotel K.

Connections made during research for Hotel K led to her third bestseller Snowing in Bali  – written after gaining unique access to Bali’s biggest western cocaine bosses – some who started trafficking simply to pay for their surfing lifestyle in paradise.