Book Description: Watcharaporn is a nineteen year old rice farmer’s daughter from Isan in search of a handsome foreigner with money and influence to help her through her life and her family out of poverty. Michael is a middle-age expatriate financial professional from Europe and North America beginning a teaching career at a university in … Read more
Book Description: Bangkok Express is an often hilarious, always dangerous, fast moving tale of the tricks and turns in an exotic land where what meets the eye often fools, if not confuses, the observer. Joe leaves behind a life of commuter trains, a messy divorce, and an egotistical boss to undertake an assignment that changes … Read more
Book Description: It is January 2005 and the charred remains of two Europeans have been discovered on the Thai island of Samui. Local Police Chief Charoenkul, sidelined by his superiors, enlists the reluctant David Braddock, a burnt-out private detective, to assist in an ‘unofficial’ investigation. But Braddock has problems of his own, including his affair … Read more
Book Description: Bullets are flying in Bangkok. Tuttle is upcountry when he hears Snow’s BBC live report above the sound of M-16 fire direct from the urban battlefield near Sanam Luang. Tuttle, Snow, and Crosby return to HQ – the night-time meeting place on Sukhumvit Road where angels and devils, locals and foreigners, and the … Read more
Book Description: Why are these people smiling? Writer Jerry Hopkins came to Thailand for a visit in the 1980s to find out and ended up a permanent resident with a temporary visa-a big, white farang haunting the bars and back alleys of Bangkok. His essays explore the mystery and mayhem of “The Land of Smiles” … Read more
Book Description: Contradictory, bewildering, revolutionary and hypocritical, Red-Light Nights, Bangkok Daze is a collection of articles on the complex and fascinating world of sex in Asia.
Book Description: The Author has been living as close to HIV without getting the infection for over 4 years. He has studied every aspect of HIV and other forms of STD and has not become a doctor but an expert in this field. After living in Asia for 10 years he has known everything there … Read more
Book Description: Thaïs is an historical novel by Anatole France (1844-1924) published at Paris in 1890. Paphnuce, an ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, journeys to Alexandria to find Thais, the libertine beauty whom he knew as a youth. Masquerading as a dandy, he is able to speak with her about eternity; surprisingly he succeeds … Read more
Book Description: Declassified! Yes, Americans did fight another secret war in Asia! Now, at last, the long-suppressed details of that controversial war can be told. The setting is Bangkok, Thailand. The time is the mid-sixties. And the events are incredible. Join Whore House Charlie, Sgt. Jigaboo, Bumbles, Blinky, Agent Orange, Corporal Napalm, Hogbody, Butterball, Good … Read more
Book Description: Sarah brought Erin to Bangkok so Erin could study Buddhism and maybe find her spiritual path. Instead, they stumble on a secret underworld of Thai lesbianism .