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Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Bangkok, Koh Samui, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
A novel of international romance. Michael could not have known when he flew into Bangkok to launch a new company that his life would change so dramatically. Working on million dollar negotiations during the day and spending tropical nights...