Lang Reid

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...

There must be something in the water in the notorious “Bangkok Hilton” prison which brings out the literary side of the inmates.  The...

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...

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...

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...

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 publishing world appears to have a set of rules all its own.  I will stop short of calling its conduct ‘subterfuge’, but...

This week’s book was written by the famed travel writer Paul Theroux, though a “book” is probably a misnomer.  It is in fact,...

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...

There is always some doubt when you read of a police enquiry into the police.  How objective are the results?  So when a...