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Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton

Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton
  • Author(s): David McMillan
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Reality of life in a Thai prison

The Risk of Infidelity Index

The Risk of Infidelity Index
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

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

Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City

Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City
  • Author(s): Alex Kerr
  • 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...

Bangkok 8

Bangkok 8
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities. Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under...

Bangkok Delusions

Bangkok Delusions
  • Author(s): Zach J Brodsky
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Scott Marshall was something of a cliché. Divorced and alone he headed to Bangkok in search of something, anything. Ting, shy and innocent caught his eye. She smiled at him. For the first time in his life Marshall left...

Bangkok People

Bangkok People
  • Author(s): James Eckhardt
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Beautifully written accounts of the people Eckhardt has met in Bangkok

Death in the Kingdom

Death in the Kingdom
  • Author(s): Andrew Grant
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

British agent Daniel Swann fled Thailand after murdering the son of the Kingdom s top underworld boss. Now he is back, ordered by his government to recover a small black box from the bottom of the Andaman Sea. Business...

Malee: A Tear in the Ocean

Malee: A Tear in the Ocean
  • Author(s): William McAllister
  • 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...

Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute

Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute
  • Author(s): Bua Boonmee
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A rivetting read about the bar girl scene, the unhappiness, and desperation that drives young women to prostitution in Thailand.

Phra Farang

Phra Farang
  • Author(s): Phra Peter Pannapadipo
  • 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...

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