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- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep has seen just about everything on his beat in Bangkok’s crime-riddled District 8. But the terrifying snuff movie he’s been sent anonymously is something else: the person who dies is Damrong, the beautiful woman he once...
- Location(s): Surrey, Bangkok, London
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
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,...
Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Reality of life in a Thai prison
- 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
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 21 century
Struggling to emerge from a despotic past, Thailand stands at a defining moment in its history. Scores have been killed on the streets of Bangkok. Freedom of speech is routinely denied. Democracy appears increasingly distant. Long dreaded by Thais,...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This is Thailand. Legal, illegal … those terms are defined by who you are, who you know, how much money you have. Alex Marek’s once idyllic life in southern Thailand is being shattered. He is about to lose his...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
When Crystal’s husband, Brian, suddenly announces that his company is sending him to manage its Bangkok office and that he expects her and their children to come along, she reluctantly acquiesces. She doesn’t want to leave the job she...
And Brother It’s Starting to Rain
- Location(s): Thailand, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
Inspector Samuel Tay has retired from Singapore CID so he’s no longer actually a police inspector. It wasn’t entirely his idea, but that’s another story. John August is a guy who has saved Tay’s butt more than once over...
Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City
- 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...
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1990s
“Thai island girl Thanikarn’s chances of meeting a good Thai man were limited … and foreigners couldn’t be trusted.” On the Thai island of Koh Samui, Thanikarn, a masseuse with traditional values, has never fallen in love – until...
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