Number 4 in the Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep novels by John Burdett.He is summoned to investigate the most shocking murder of his career. Solving it could mean a promotion but, still reeling from a personal tragedy, Sonchai is more interested...

Poke and his family seem at last to have found stability. Poke and Rose are married, and Miaow, now a complicated and sometimes difficult sixth-grader in one of Bangkok’s international schools, is playing the spirit Ariel in a production...

In the Land of Smiles, things are rarely as they seem. Calvino, an outsider, is fighting hypocrisy, prejudice and corruption

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s calorie representative in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, he combs Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs long thought to be extinct. There he meets the windup girl – the...

Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact-more or less-despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with...

This is the story of a 12-year-old Thai boy called Mr Little Frog. The year is 1963 and he lives on the family estate in Bangkok. He refuses to accept that he is Thai, eats English food, speaks only...

Reality of life in a Thai prison

In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Damage Done is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious...

Family man Colin Martin runs into trouble and the upshot is – jail in Bangkok, where he has to face a corrupt legal system and mistreatment of inmates. A truly scary and rivetting read.

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’d like to get to know Grace better. But it’s difficult,...