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L.A. Nolan

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Award winning author L.A. Nolan was born in Toronto, making him the first Canadian born member of his family, whose roots are set firmly in Liverpool, England.
Throughout his life, Nolan’s restlessness encouraged relentless travel too many countries, and in 2012, he finally settled in India.
He took to exploring the country on motorcycle and began writing and blogging about his many experience. Then, after breaking several bones on a desolate mountainside in the Himalayas and riding back from Nepal to New Delhi injured and unattended, Nolan focused solely on his true passion of storytelling.
In October of 2021, Nolan released his debut crime thriller fiction novel, Blood & Brown Sugar, which won him the ...more

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	Blood & Brown Sugar 4.37 avg rating — 67 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Blood & Bombay Black: Back in the Saddle 4.79 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hellhounds: Tales from the Bark Side by J.A. Clement (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kate Pickford (Editor), E.G. Bateman (Goodreads Author) 4.56 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chandrayarn: Wrimo India's Spin to the Moon! by Sonia Rao (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aksheeya (Goodreads Author), S.B. Akshobhya (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	My Heart's Sunshine: An Anthology of Romantic Short Stories by The Creative Circle Official (Compiler), Shashikala Gadepally (co-author), L.A. Nolan (Goodreads Author) (co-author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Memoirs Of A Motorcycle Madman

Delve into the hilarious misadventures of this uptight Ex-North American as he shares some select experiences while touring through India. Armed only with his 500 cc motorcycle, a band of brothers clearly as crazy as he is and a burning wanderlust, Mr. Nolan finds himself atop mountains, in scorching deserts and occasionally tangling with the Border Security Force. These delightful and somewhat tw

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“If you ride long enough, every last character flaw will get poured onto the pavement for inspection. Eventually, you will have to examine who you really are.”
― L. A Nolan, Memoirs Of A Motorcycle Madman

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