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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 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

Bombay Anna

Bombay Anna
  • Author(s): Susan Morgan
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 19th century

If you thought you knew the story of Anna in The King and I, think again. As this riveting biography shows, the real life of Anna Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the Victorian governess...

Brannan’s Run

Brannan’s Run
  • Author(s): Stephen Cord
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

“ADVENTURE IS BACK” Joe Brannan owner and Captain of a dive boat working out of Thailand’s sin city Pattaya is desperate to keep his business afloat, so when an old acquaintance comes to him with a tale of sunken...

Bridge on the River Kwai

Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Author(s): Pierre Boulle
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Thailand
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

POWs, after the surrender of Singapore are taken by their Japanes captors to build a bridge. The current edition is a nod to the film, the original title being The Bridge over the River Kwai.

Caught in Traffick

Caught in Traffick
  • Author(s): Freya Barrington
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

In her previous book, Known to Social Services Freya Barrington gave us a frighteningly realistic insight into the harrowing world of the child protection social worker. Based on her own experiences, the book was a revelation and occupied the...

Close Encounters of the Traveling Kind

Close Encounters of the Traveling Kind
  • Author(s): Amanda Jayne
  • Location(s): South America, Japan, Nepal, South Africa, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

This collection of near-death (and a few almost-near-death) stories take you on adventures in Africa, South America, Nepal, Japan and Thailand. Close Encounters with an angry snake, the edge of an abyss, an unfriendly African tribe, a shady guide...

Daddy’s Hobby

Daddy’s Hobby
  • Author(s): Owen Ceri Jones
  • Location(s): Pattaya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand. Typically that...

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