Hotel Kerobokan

Hotel Kerobokan is Kathryn Bonella’s bestselling true-crime account of life inside Bali’s most notorious jail, published internationally as Hotel K.

In the heart of Bali’s tourist mecca, Hotel K's prison walls touch paradise — yet inside is a hidden world of drugs, violence, corruption and criminal power.

Based on hundreds of firsthand interviews with prisoners past and present, Bonella takes readers deep inside a prison that has housed the Bali bombers, members of the Bali Nine, Schapelle Corby, drug granny Lindsay Sandiford, drug traffickers, killers, gangsters and tourists whose holidays ended behind bars.

Bonella reveals the filthy, overcrowded cells, rampant drug trade, corrupt guards, wild “sex nights”, killings, escapes and extraordinary deals that allow money and influence to buy almost anything — while exposing the criminal networks and organised crime operating behind the prison walls.

Dark, shocking and often surreal, Hotel Kerobokan is an uncensored journey into the hidden side of Bali written by Australian investigative journalist and bestselling true-crime author Kathryn Bonella; author of Snowing in Bali, Operation Playboy and Schapelle Corby: My Story.