New York: Pocket Books, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dj: 'Journalist Nicholas Bornoff opens a unique, richly researched window to the East in this revealing, often surprising account of sexual pursuits and politics in modern Japan. Attitudes towards women, men, family, work and erotic preferences are explored in depth, from the first primitive myths to the neon glare of the modern cities' - including geishas, love hotels, no-pantie coffee shops, erotic comics and more. Photographs. xvi, 479 pp. ISBN: 0-671-742655.

New York: North Point Press / Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, (2002). First edition - A book which "continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid - to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might mean to come fully alive in a time of exalted consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and wholesale destruction of the environment." 293 pp.

New York: Pantheon (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tour de force about the controversial issue of personal interracial intimacy as it exists within ever-changing American social mores and within the rule of law. Fears of transgressive interracial relationships, informed over the centuries by ugly racial biases and fantasies, still linger in American society today. This brilliant studyÑranging from plantation days to the presentÑexplores the historical, sociological, legal, and moral issues that continue to feed and complicate that fear." Extensive notes, bibliography, index. viii, 676 pp. ISBN: 0-375-402551.

New York: St Martin's, 2001. Novel set in California's Sacramento Valley in the years following the Civil War, originally published in Scotland in 1994 under a different title. Charles Palliser called it"brilliantly imagined, wonderfully crafted... a tremendously gripping narrative.

New York: Ballantine, (2006). Hardcover first edition - Sixth book by this award winning author, a retelling of The Tempest set on a small Caribbean Island off the coast of Trinidad at the height of the tension between the native population and the British colonists..316 pp. ISBN: 0-345-455355.

New York: Pantheon, (1986.) dj. Hardcover - A study of a rapist - a dark thriller by this master of pyschological suspense, Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award. 212 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, both a mystery and a coming-of-age story. In the summer of 1989, a quiet Baton Rouge neighborhood is rocked by a violent crime when a fifteen-year-old girl, a free spirit and track star, is attacked late one evening near her home. "As the dark side of this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia is revealed, the close-knit neighborhood is irreversibly transformed.. . [a book which] brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2014, that is, before publication. 303 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, both a mystery and a coming-of-age story. In the summer of 1989, in a quiet Baton Rouge neighborhood where a fifteen-year-old girl, a free spirit and track star, is attacked late one evening near her home. "As the dark side of this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia is revealed, the close-knit neighborhood is irreversibly transformed.. . [a book which] brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime." SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp.