Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
It’s hard picking just five best books on Cambodia. A lot has been written on the beautiful and troubled Southeast Asian kingdom. So here are a few favorites. Check out my selection of the Best Books on Cambodia. Happy reading.
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With great sadness, Hans and Tom have decided to wind down Crime Wave Press after publishing 37 crime novels from around the world in the past 12 years. Several of our titles were published in foreign languages and as audio books, a few were optioned for movie rights. We’re proud to have shifted tens of […]
Continue ReadingThe market for good print stories is getting smaller all the time. Especially for off the wall, niche or sub-cultural stuff. So it’s great to see some of my recent work published specially to be read on smart phones. Almost everyone has one and there’s more to life than Candy Crush. ATC Tattoo Books have […]
Continue ReadingI am at the second Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Mandalay, organized by Jane Heyn, the wife of the former British ambassador to Myanmar. This second festival is held in Mandalay and has been in preparation for almost a year. Top writers appearing this time around include Jung Chang, Louis de Bernieres, and Thant Myint U. […]
Continue ReadingThe second Bangkok Night of Noir had a fantastic line-up of mostly Asia based crime writers: Cara Black, James Newman, John Burdett, Christopher G. Moore, Dean Barett, John Marango and painter Chris Coles. Great start to 2014!!! I read a chapter from The Man with the Golden Mind, which is out with Exhibit A in […]
Continue ReadingI will be reading from my second novel, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, published in Thailand and Cambodian by Crime Wave Press, and from June world wide by Exhibit A Books in the UK. The Bangkok Night of Noir is the brainchild of writer James Newman. The venue, the Check Inn 99 is legendary, […]
Continue ReadingSign of the times, I suppose. In another effort of shameless self-promotion, I have created a Tom Vater facebook page about my writing, which will run new and old stories, some of them culled from this blog, others from other online sources. If you are on facebook, join up and read interesting stuff about Asia […]
Continue ReadingI have opened an author page on Amazon (Author Central) which will keep Amazon surfers abreast of my activities. Not all of my titles are currently featured there, but readers will find a page with info on publications and a new blog , as well as other news from my literary twilight zone.
Continue ReadingHurrah! Einige meiner Bücher können jetzt direkt über den Amazon Online Book Shop auf meiner Website bezogen werden. In der rechten Spalte ganz oben findet sich der Amazon Store. Allerdings fehlen zwei deutsche Titel und mein Roman The Devil`s Road to Kathamandu. You can now buy some of my book titles via a new Amazon […]
Continue ReadingI love libraries, bookshops, even a pile of books to look through will do. And I like hotels with a decent library. Most hotels I stay in, whether up-scale, flea-pit or somewhere in between, don’t have libraries. A couple months ago, I was staying at the Z Hotel in Puri, Orissa, India, one of my […]
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