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Cross Currents

Cross Currents
  • Author(s): John Shors
  • Location(s): Koh Phi Phi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A Thai family, Lek, Sarai, and their three children are making a living on the island of Ko Phi Phi running tourist accommodation. They have taken in a young American, Patch, who is avoiding the law after getting bound...

Forgotten

Forgotten
  • Author(s): Heleyne Hammersley
  • Location(s): Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if you woke up in a strange place and didn’t know who you were? A woman reins consciousness in a Thai hospital unaware of how she got there or who she is. The doctor names her Kai, the...

Her Last Summer

Her Last Summer
  • Author(s): Emily Freud
  • Location(s): Thailand, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No body. No crime? Twenty years ago, Mari vanished while backpacking through Thailand with her boyfriend, Luke. He was accused of murder, but has always insisted he’s innocent. Besides, her body was never found. Now, he’s finally ready to...

Malc’s boy

Malc’s boy
  • Author(s): Shaun Wilson
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Pattaya, Wigton
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Autofiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A stunning, hilarious depiction of northern working-class violent masculinity conveyed – in a skewed way – through the form of experimental literary fiction.’ – Chris Kraus, bestselling author of I Love Dick Malc’s Boy charts a son’s struggle and...

Private Dancer

Private Dancer
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • 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...

Selected Short Stories Of Thailand

Selected Short Stories Of Thailand
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The stories in this selection, taken from William Peskett’s four collections, Mango and Sticky Rice, Mist on the Jungle, Sweet Song of the Siren and The Day of the Tiger, cover the different ways in which people look at...

The Backpacking Housewife

The Backpacking Housewife
  • Author(s): Janice Horton
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lorraine Anderson was meant to be making a Sunday roast, not swanning off to Thailand, backpack in hand! But when she finds her husband and her best friend in bed together there’s only one thing to do – grab...

The Big Weird

The Big Weird
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • 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...

The Dying Beach

The Dying Beach
  • Author(s): Angela Savage
  • Location(s): Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

As Jayne and Rajiv holiday in Krabi, Jayne can’t stop her mind straying to thoughts of the future: a successful business, perhaps even a honeymoon. Who would have thought she could be so content? But then their tour guide’s...

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...

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