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Crime Fiction‘s alive and kicking in France. 50s pulp greats like Jim Thompson and Ross MacDonald are are currently being re-translated and some Noir classics are now out in two different editions. This is what I found out when I visited Libraririe Lignes Noires in Avignon, one of just a handful of crime fiction book [...]
French blog La Jupette de Jeanette offers a page on my new book Sacred Skin this week!
Today’s edition of Courrier International runs a great four page spread of my new book Sacred Skin, the first English language publication on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, Sak Yant.
My new book, Sacred Skin, the first English language publication on Thailand´s spirit tattoos, Sak Yant, is featured in the forthcoming edition of the French Courrier International, due to hit newsstands on October 6th!
French German TV channel ARTE will be broadcasting an eight minute documentary, part of the culture magazine Metropolis, on Thailand’s sacred tattoos and on my new book, Sacred Skin on September 17th! Metropolis will be on at 11.30pm. The program will be repeated on September 18th at 5.45pm. Visit the book’s official website!
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French German TV channel ARTE will be broadcasting an eight minute documentary, part of the culture magazine Metropolis, on Thailand’s sacred tattoos and on my new book, Sacred Skin on September 17th! Exact broadcasting schedule to follow. Visit the book’s official website!
I published the following story about Provence, a wine growing region in southern France a couple of years ago. At the time of writing, I was just getting to know the protagonists of the text. I stayed in touch with all of them. Eric Bouletin continues to grow excellent wine and Junko Takase continues to [...]
Every day, we appear to be moving a little closer to a state of affairs where governments could become obsolete. Large parts of the world have always been ruled by people who don’t really qualify as governments, but in recent years, perfectly respectable rulers have also shown signs (not for the first time) that they [...]
Southern Germany is conservative and a bit too far away from the real world for my liking, but while people look pretty stiff and sullen on the street, they are friendly, noticably so after a trip around Europe. Tried to get a tram from Mannheim to Heidelberg a while back and had no change for [...]