Lang Reid

One would imagine that a history of the world has, by now, been done to death.  We know when the ‘Big Bang’ went off...

A very interesting book arrived on the review table from one of the book agents round town.  It is “Air Base” (ISBN 978-616-305-707-5, and...

Thais seem to have a fascination for Korea and all things Korean, and I thought this week’s review book from Tuttle Publishing might explain...

A couple of weeks ago I was in the Bookazine in The Avenue, and picked up “True Colours”, written by Stephen Leather.  In my...

Stephen Leather is a prolific author, with 14 novels and another nine in the Spider Shepherd series.  He has just penned another Spider Shepherd...

With “Maggie May” running through my subconscious, I opened “Rod, the Autobiography” (ISBN 978-0-09-957475-0, Arrow Books, 2012) and began reading.  After several hours of...

22 Walks in Bangkok and written by (walked by?) Kenneth Barrett (ISBN 978-0-8048-4343-0, Tuttle Publishing, 2013) arrived on my desk, brought in by our...

This latest book from the prolific Dean Barrett, “The China Memoirs of Thomas Rowley” (ISBN978-0-9788888-3-1, Village East Books, 2013) is written as “memoirs” of...

I re-read this book 1000 years of Annoying the French (ISBN 978-0-552-77575-5, Bantam Press, 2010) by Stephen Clarke, a writer who these days lives...

This 14th novel to feature author Christopher G. Moore’s Private Eye Vincent (Vinny) Calvino should be on the Bookazine shelves by the time you...