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Welcome Me to the Kingdom

Welcome Me to the Kingdom
  • Author(s): Mai Nardone
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Bangkok, 1980. As the decades pass, figures fall in and out of the relentless city: Pea and Nam, who arrive in search of a better life; a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, Pinky; Benz, Tintin and Big,...

The Trip

The Trip
  • Author(s): Phoebe Morgan
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Ko Samet
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How well do you know your friends? Four friends on the holiday of a lifetime. Until a vicious murder shatters their paradise. Four friends who’d do anything for each other, until now. Only one of them committed a crime....

Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City

Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City
  • Author(s): Alex Kerr
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alex Kerr has spent over thirty years of his life living in Bangkok. As with his bestselling books on Japan, this evocative personal meditation explores the city’s secret corners. Here is the huge, traffic-choked metropolis of concrete high-rises, slums...

The Nineteen

The Nineteen
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

In January 2000, nearly a dozen of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted lieutenants gathered secretly in Malaysia at, of all places, a luxurious condominium overlooking a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course. The purpose of this summit meeting of terrorists was...

The Glass Kingdom

The Glass Kingdom
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, she rents an apartment at the Kingdom, a glittering high-end complex slowly sinking into its own twilight...

You Don’t Know Me

You Don’t Know Me
  • Author(s): Sara Foster
  • Location(s): Bangkok, England, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lizzie Burdett was eighteen when she vanished. Noah Carruso has never forgotten her: she was his first crush; his unrequited love. She was also his brother’s girlfriend. Tom Carruso hasn’t been home in over a decade. He left soon...

Street Music

Street Music
  • Author(s): Timothy Hallinan
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eight years ago, Poke Rafferty, an American travel writer, and his Thai wife, Rose, adopted a Bangkok street child named Miaow, forming an unconventional intercultural family. That family has weathered extreme challenges—each of its three members carried the scars...

Death in the Kingdom

Death in the Kingdom
  • Author(s): Andrew Grant
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

British agent Daniel Swann fled Thailand after murdering the son of the Kingdom s top underworld boss. Now he is back, ordered by his government to recover a small black box from the bottom of the Andaman Sea. Business...

The Crow: Temple of Night

The Crow: Temple of Night
  • Author(s): S P Somtow
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The Eternal One At our human limits, when we’ve gone as for as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One. The Crow. His alabaster delicate features tell of his ivory goddess ancestry. Immemorially old, and...

Phra Farang

Phra Farang
  • Author(s): Phra Peter Pannapadipo
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 21st century

At forty-five, successful businessman Peter Robinson gave up his comfortable life in London to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Bangkok. But the new path he had chosen was not always as easy or as straightforward as he hoped...

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