Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic crime fiction and reportage from Southeast Asia and beyond
First published in 2006, this new edition of The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, my first novel, has been called a better backpacker novel than The Beach by The Bangkok Post and is now available as a Kindle ebook on amazon UK, published by Crime Wave Press. What’s inside: In 1976, four friends, Dan, Fred, Tim [...]
I used to work with the British Library’s Sound Archive a decade ago and collected and documented music from around Asia for the library’s International Music Collection. Several ethnographic CDs of this work were released in the 90s, the rest sits in London and is accessible to researchers. The music of the Moken Sea Gypsies [...]
Check out Marc Eberle‘s excellent and very tasty short film on one of Cambodia’s culinary highlights: The spiders of Skuon.
Here’s a first preview of the cover of my forthcoming guide to Angkor Wat, including Siem Reap, Battambang and Phnom Penh, published by Moon Books in the US in November 2012. It’s been a great project to work on and I am just dealing with the final edits for the book. Photographs will be supplied [...]
Seems like British hip hop legend Gobshite aka Grant Mgc Massey, currently based in Phnom Penh, continues to get mileage out of my recent story on the Cambodian capital’s cultural resurgence. The feature, which first appeared in The Guardian in April is now online at Bangkok 101, the Thai capital’s most exciting English language magazine, [...]
Crime Wave Press is a Hong Kong based fiction imprint that endeavors to publish the best new crime novels from and about Asia to readers around the globe. Check out CWP facebookpage! Crime Wave Press is looking for authors who can offer complete and well edited manuscripts of English language crime novels either based in [...]
Thanks to Baerbel Schmidt and Klaus Toepfer.
I’ve just published a small info page on safety for travelers in Thailand in The Daily Telegraph, part of my regular guide to Bangkok. Check out my brief missive here…
Several sources suggest that the legendary, historic Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh is likely to be demolished soon to make space for a development of the Canadia’s Bank Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation. (OCIC). It appears the bank, in conjunction with someone at a high level within the Cambodian government, had originally planned to develop only [...]
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