Lang Reid

Many years ago I had a Maiden Aunt who had been a member of the WAF (Women’s Air Force), who gave me a...

We have been going through a nostalgic wave of Titanic proportions with the 100 year anniversary this month of the sinking of the...

The latest Jack Shepherd crime novel is entitled A World of Trouble (ISBN 978-981-4361-51-4, Marshall Cavendish, 2012), written by well-known author Jake Needham...

It had been at least a decade since I read Do’s and Don’ts in Thailand, and it did not surprise me that the...

The latest from British tele-personality Jeremy Clarkson is called Round the Bend (ISBN 978-0-718-15841-5, Penguin books 2011), and is a collection of Clarkson’s...

Master Key to Thailand (ISBN 978-616-91113-0-6, Scand-media corporation, 2012) has been written by Kenno Simonsen and covers culture, communication and management, and was...

With the recent death of the despotic ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, and his son Kim Jong Un taking over, the...

Another book on life (and death) in Thailand’s prisons.  This one, A prayer before dawn and subtitled A nightmare in Thailand (ISBN 978-616-7111-20-9,...

If You Can’t Stand the Fun, Stay Out of the Go-Go is another title from local publisher Bamboo Sinfonia (ISBN 978-616-7111-24-7, 2011) written...