Lang Reid

With the subtitle “An Indian Adventure”, “Confessions of a Coward” is a collection of real-life experiences of Kirsty Turner, a traveler who spent nine...

It was the day after the Asiana Airways crash in San Francisco that I was browsing in the Bookazine in The Avenue and spotted...

An old hand in Thailand, Harlan Wolff is a Private Investigator (PI) who has worked in Bangkok since 1977.  Deliberately keeping a low profile,...

This book, A Little History of the World (ISBN 978-0-300-14332-4, Yale University Press, first paperback edition (in English 2008, but was first published in...

Paul Theroux is a prolific writer with 14 fiction novels and 11 non-fiction books.  This latest fiction is The Lower River (ISBN978-0-241-95774-5, Penguin, 2013),...

Something quite different this week.  In many ways, Lovely Love (ISBN 978-981-08-0044-4, Tawandhamma Foundation, 2008) and written by a Buddhist monk Luang Phaw Dhammajayo,...

This book was reviewed six years ago, and was a very popular title.  However, all the pitfalls are still present, so the book remains...

Having reviewed some autobiographies of rock stars recently, I was given a copy of a biography of one of Britain’s richest men, with the...

My favorite (and closest) Bookazine is where I get many of the books for review.  However, when I boldly turned the corner into the...