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- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Set against a beautifully observed Thailand of the 1950s, this is the story of a young Englishman s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai, who all Bangkok knows as The White Leopard. No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century to the future
In the restless city of Bangkok, there is a house. Over the last two centuries, it has played host to longings and losses past, present, and future, and has witnessed lives shaped by upheaval, memory and the lure of...
Love in the strangest of places
- Location(s): Bangkok, London, Moscow
Dan changes his mind on holiday to Bangkok. He sees the girls and the drinks and forgets about work with the rest but something is not right. He returns to London and takes the chance of redundancy when it...
- Location(s): Bangkok, Ko Samui, Koh Phi Phi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land–forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation...
- Location(s): Bangkok, Koh Chang, Koh Samet
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When travellers Ben and Emma come to blows on the idyllic Thai island of Koh Samet, it s not long before Ben falls for Fon, a flirtatious but enigmatic beach masseuse, and is forced to come to terms with...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
Among these 25 profiles of amazing members of Bangkoks expatriate community who transformed themselves after leaving home are an advertising executive who photographs Bangkoks most beautiful bargirls, an insurance agent who became a modern bounty hunter, a Catholic priest...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Travelogue
An interesting reflection on the city, Osborne takes the reader to hidden corners of the city, introduces locals and foreigners, and generally writes a cohesive and well observed and well written, a must to have another dimension to understand...
- Location(s): Bangkok, Thailand
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s
Thailand 1996. The Year Of The Rat. Pete, a young travel writer, wanders into a Bangkok go-go bar and meets the love of his life. Joy is the girl of his dreams, young, stunningly pretty, and one of the...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Turn of 21st Century
A beautiful American blond is found dead with a large bullet hole in her head in the house of her ex-boyfriend. A famous Hollywood screen-writer hires Calvino to investigate her death. Everyone except Calvino’s client believes Samantha McNeal has...
- 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...