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A Kingdom in Crisis

A Kingdom in Crisis
  • Author(s): Andrew MacGregor Marshall
  • 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,...

A Thousand Years of Rain

A Thousand Years of Rain
  • Author(s): Michael Lipinski
  • 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...

A Wife in Bangkok

A Wife in Bangkok
  • Author(s): Iris Mitlin Lav
  • 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

And Brother It’s Starting to Rain
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • 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

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...

At Sea with a Song

At Sea with a Song
  • Author(s): Catherine Monnet
  • 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...

Bamboo Road (Bamboo Trilogy 3)

Bamboo Road (Bamboo Trilogy 3)
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): Kanchanaburi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and 1970

Thailand 1942: Sirinya and her family are members of the Thai underground, who risk their lives to resist the World War Two Japanese occupation and to and help British prisoners of war building the Thai-Burma railway. The events of...

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...

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