Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
Very pleased to announce that I’ve been invited to perform at the next Bangkok Poetry event on Saturday, July 21st at Opposite in Tong Lor. The event starts at 8pm. Bangkok Poetry is a reading series devoted to the lyrical, the risky, the unexpected. Happenings are every six weeks. Check out the fb page for […]
Continue ReadingAll new (two) titles published so far by Crime Wave Press, my new Hong Kong based fiction imprint are now (finally) available as Kindle eBooks on amazon and amazon UK as well as amazon outlets in Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Further titles are in preparation and Crime Wave Press is currently looking for authors. […]
Continue ReadingMy second novel, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, out now with Crime Wave Press and available at amazon, gets a mention this week on the popular Crime Fiction Lover Blog! Buy The Cambodian Book of the Dead on amazon.com or amazon.co.uk.
Continue ReadingCrime 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 […]
Continue ReadingSacred Skin, the first English language book on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, got excellent coverage recently in the newsletter of the Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden in Laos. Besides the obvious flowery news there are always a few pages dedicated to books with regional topics. Thanks to Pha Tad Ke for featuring us. It’s the first […]
Continue ReadingThe Cambodian Book of the Dead is in the Top 100 Hardboiled novels on amazon UK! About the book: Cambodia 2001 – a country re-emerges from a half century of war, genocide, famine and cultural collapse. German Detective Maier travels to Phnom Penh, the Asian kingdom’s ramshackle capital to find the heir to a Hamburg […]
Continue ReadingAroon Thaewchatturat‘s post on Sacred Skin‘s anniversary…
Continue ReadingSacred Skin, the first English language book on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, Sak Yant, published by Visionary World, is one year old today! It took photographer and co-author Aroon Thaewchatturat and me more than a year to put Sacred Skin together and it remains our most successful illustrated book publication. Happy anniversary and many thanks to […]
Continue ReadingThe Cambodian Book of the Dead is out now on Amazon UK, published by Crime Wave Press. It’s the first Maier mystery. I am currently writing a second one which will be out some time next year. A print edition is out in October. What’s inside: Cambodia 2001 – a country re-emerges from a half […]
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