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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 Noir

Bangkok Noir
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore (editor)
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Bangkok is one of the great cities in the world, but unlike other great metropolises it has no noir tales to its name. Bangkok Noir puts that to right. In this first ever noir anthology of Bangkok, twelve seasoned...

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...

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...

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