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Children do tend to get ignored by publishers and retail outlets. Look at the shelf space dedicated to pulp fiction and then try and find the little corner with a…
Another book from an ex-pat writer domiciled in Thailand came across the reviewer’s desk at the end of 2011. Robert Baldwin, a well traveled chap, has put together his memoirs/anecdotes…
Christopher G Moore’s latest novel, The Wisdom of Beer (ISBN 978-616-7503-11-0, Heaven Lake Press, 2012) is set in Pattaya, with many of the characters reminiscent of many of the ‘characters’…
Stephen Leather is one of the world’s most prolific writers of fiction, and spends much time in Thailand each year. Recuperating? Or looking for a new plot? I think the…
The Dead Do Talk is an autobiography (ISBN 978-981-4302-73-9, Marshall Cavendish Editions, Singapore, 2011) written by the highly regarded Thai forensic pathologist, Dr. Porntip Rojanasunan. Dr Porntip is the lady…
The classic book describing the relationship between a love-sick young Englishman and the ultimate hardened Thai female prostitute. Set in the 1950’s, and written by “Jack Reynolds” A Woman of…
There must be something in the water in the notorious “Bangkok Hilton” prison which brings out the literary side of the inmates. The latest is American Jon Cole, with his…
In the course of a year I will read and review more than 50 books. Some never become reviews as they are simply not good enough in the literary sense.…
Ben Mezrich (a previously published author of 11 books) has written Sex on the Moon (ISBN 978-0-434-02079-9, Random House, 2011), and I suppose it goes with the old adage ‘sex…
There are two reasons that I chose this book, The Master Builder written by Charles Sale (ISBN 0-370-30927-8, Putnam and Company, 1982, but first published in the US in 1930)…
1001 little ways to spend less and live well
Friday, 09 December 2011 Issue Vol. XIX No. 49 By Lang Reid
This week’s book is 1001 little ways to spend less and live well (ISBN 978-1-84732-350-7, Carlton Books, printed in Dubai 2009). The compiler of the 1001 ways is Esme Floyd.…
This week’s book review is of Maximum Security (ISBN 978-1-84193-755-7, Arcturus Publishing 2009) by Karen Farrington and has the subtitle Inside stories from the world’s toughest prisons.
The publishing world appears to have a set of rules all its own. I will stop short of calling its conduct ‘subterfuge’, but I direct you towards that very core…
This week’s book was written by the famed travel writer Paul Theroux, though a “book” is probably a misnomer. It is in fact, a collection of short stories, previously written…
With an obvious tilt towards “Catch-22”, Joseph Heller’s magnificent book reviewed here a few months ago, Hitch-22, with the subtitle A Memoir (ISBN 978-1-8435-922-2, Atlantic Books, 2010) is an autobiography…
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