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Return To The Go-Go

Return To The Go-Go
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • Location(s): Pattaya, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Return to the Go-Go is the second volume of insights by Pattaya veteran Khun Pobaan into everyday life in Thailand’s extreme city. The first collection, If You Can’t Stand the Fun, Stay Out Of The Go-Go, gathered together essays...

Sacred Skin – Thailand’s Spirit Tattoos

Sacred Skin – Thailand’s Spirit Tattoos
  • Author(s): Tom Vater, Aroon Thaewchatturat
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sacred tattoos, called ‘sak yant’ in Thailand, have been around Southeast Asia for centuries and afford protection from accident, misfortune, and crime. Young women get tattooed with love charms in order to attract partners, while adolescent men use the...

She kept the bar between them

She kept the bar between them
  • Author(s): Steve Rosse
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

With his eyes still closed he waited while she considered whether to serve him or throw him out. She approached him, and by the slowness of her approach he knew she had not made up her mind. He opened...

Silk Umbrellas

Silk Umbrellas
  • Author(s): Carolyn Marsden
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th century

Eleven-year-old Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend many rapt hours in the jungle watching as Kun Ya paints delicate silk umbrellas to sell at the market. But one day Kun...

Something to read While Travelling- Thailand

Something to read While Travelling- Thailand
  • Author(s): Robert A Webster
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): present day

Something to Read While Travelling is an informative and entertaining companion to accompany you on your travels. Something to Read While Travelling-THAILAND Contains useful information about Thailand, some of which you won’t find in travel guidebooks. Enjoy learning about:...

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...

Sweet Song of the Siren

Sweet Song of the Siren
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A murderer who sees himself carved in stone, a writer whose dead wife returns to him through time, a robot community waiting for their saviour, a man who falls in love with his own penis, a woman dying slowly...

Teak Lord

Teak Lord
  • Author(s): Ron Emmons
  • Location(s): North Thailand
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

A tale of piety, greed, debauchery and equanimity in a remote Asian kingdom. It’s 1875 and Chiang Mai, capital of Lanna, is a cultural crossroads of Buddhist monks and Christian missionaries, of spirit doctors and opium smokers, of seductive...

Thailand: The Lotus Kingdom

Thailand: The Lotus Kingdom
  • Author(s): Alistair Shearer
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue

This book gives an insight into the Thailand of today. It details the history, culture and contemporary predicament of a traditional Buddhist society struggling to preserve its integrity in the face of change. The author evokes the atmosphere of...

The Beaten Track

The Beaten Track
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...

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