New Crime Wave Press title: Dead Sea by Sam Lopez

The third title by Crime Wave Press, Asia’s only crime fiction imprint (correct me if I’m wrong), is out now. Dead Sea by Sam Lopez is available from amazon. Down and out Luke and high-class Tara, linked intimately by a violent incident in London’s seedy King’s Cross, run away to the Philippines to escape their […]

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From the Vault: Pussy & The Learjets: You’re Gonna Miss Me

From the vaults…a new track by Pussy & The Learjets, who played Bangkok punk rock for twelve months and then crashed and burned, as any great band should. This is a cover on The Thirteenth Floor Elevators You’re Gonna Miss Me, a huge song. And yes, I played guitar for The Learjets. With Manis on […]

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Sacred Skin at Wat Bang Phra: An interview with Aroon Thaewchatturat

Aroon Thaewchatturat, photographer and co-author of Sacred Skin, my book on Thailand’s spirit tattoos – sak yant in Thai – is interviewed in this short film at Wat Bang Phra, during the annual Wai Kru (Respect your teacher) festival, during which thousands of tattoo devotees descend on this temple famous for its tattooing monks, an […]

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Pictures of Sittwe – Home of the Rohingya

I was in Sittwe, Rakhine State in Burma recently, the site of serious communal riots between Rakhine people and Muslim Rohingya who have been living in the state for generations and are currently the victims of a hate campaign instigated by politicians, ordinary people, Buddhist monks and government officials. I spent three weeks in Burma […]

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The Cambodian Book Of The Dead in the Phnom Penh Post

Dagmarah Mackos interviews me about my second novel, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, in last weekend’s Phnom Penh Post. Read the full interview here. Inside The Cambodian Book of the Dead: Cambodia 2001 – a country re-emerges from a half century of war, genocide, famine and cultural collapse. German Detective Maier travels to Phnom […]

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Sacred Skin auf arteSacred Skin on arte

Deutsch/Franzoesischer Fernsehsender arte hat letztes Jahr einen kurzen Film über mein Buch Sacred Skin (mit Fotografin Aroon Thaewchatturat), dem ersten englischsprachigen Titel über Thailands heilige Tätowierungen, gesendet. Nun ist der film online zu sehen. Regie: Marc Eberle Kamera: Marc Eberle, Hans Kemp Interviews mit dem Fotografen James Nachtwey und dem Tätowiermeister Ajan Neng Onnut. Sacred […]

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