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A Woman of Bangkok

A Woman of Bangkok
  • Author(s): Jack Reynolds
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set against a beautifully observed Thailand of the 1950s, this is the story of a young Englishman s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai, who all Bangkok knows as The White Leopard. No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one...

Bangkok Babylon

Bangkok Babylon
  • Author(s): Jerry Hopkins
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction

Among these 25 profiles of amazing members of Bangkoks expatriate community who transformed themselves after leaving home are an advertising executive who photographs Bangkoks most beautiful bargirls, an insurance agent who became a modern bounty hunter, a Catholic priest...

Bangkok Days

Bangkok Days
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Travelogue

An interesting reflection on the city, Osborne takes the reader to hidden corners of the city, introduces locals and foreigners, and generally writes a cohesive and well observed and well written, a must to have another dimension to understand...

Bangkok Wakes To Rain

Bangkok Wakes To Rain
  • Author(s): Pitchaya Sudbanthad
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century to the future

In the restless city of Bangkok, there is a house. Over the last two centuries, it has played host to longings and losses past, present, and future, and has witnessed lives shaped by upheaval, memory and the lure of...

Love in the strangest of places

Love in the strangest of places
  • Author(s): M Alexander
  • Location(s): Bangkok, London, Moscow

Dan changes his mind on holiday to Bangkok. He sees the girls and the drinks and forgets about work with the rest but something is not right. He returns to London and takes the chance of redundancy when it...

Private Dancer

Private Dancer
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

Thailand 1996. The Year Of The Rat. Pete, a young travel writer, wanders into a Bangkok go-go bar and meets the love of his life. Joy is the girl of his dreams, young, stunningly pretty, and one of the...

The Beach

The Beach
  • Author(s): Alex Garland
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Koh Phi Phi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land–forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation...

The Glass Kingdom

The Glass Kingdom
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, she rents an apartment at the Kingdom, a glittering high-end complex slowly sinking into its own twilight...

The Nineteen

The Nineteen
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

In January 2000, nearly a dozen of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted lieutenants gathered secretly in Malaysia at, of all places, a luxurious condominium overlooking a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course. The purpose of this summit meeting of terrorists was...

Thai Girl

Thai Girl
  • Author(s): Andrew Hicks
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Koh Chang, Koh Samet
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When travellers Ben and Emma come to blows on the idyllic Thai island of Koh Samet, it s not long before Ben falls for Fon, a flirtatious but enigmatic beach masseuse, and is forced to come to terms with...

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