Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
In The Daily Telegraph this week: Our expert in Bangkok, Tom Vater, picks his favourite festivals in Thailand’s capital, from water fights to celebrations of light. Including Wai Kru at Wat Bang Phra, Thailand’s best known tattoo temple!!! Surely a first for The Daily Telegraph. Read it all here!
Continue ReadingEveryone has a good book in them so they say, Asia’s first English-language crime publishing house looks set to put that adage to the test. Mark Bibby Jackson interviews me about all things Crime Wave Press in this month’s ASIA LIFE Magazine, both in the Thailand and Cambodia edition. I get to talk about crime […]
Continue ReadingI take a walk around Chiang Mai for Silkwind Magazine (Silk Air Inflight) this month and am especially pleased to be able to include my shot of international fugitive Darth Vader collecting alms at the Chiang Mai night market. The other photographs are by Aroon Thaewchatturat. Also great to include my two favorite Chiang Mai […]
Continue ReadingMy first novel, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, published by Crime Wave Press, is soon to be published as Kathmandu, Camino al infierno by Spanish publisher Editorial Xplora. To get the book rolling in Spain, the publisher has produced a fantastic book trailer. Ladies and gentlemen, watch Kathmandu, Camino al infierno here!!!
Continue ReadingThe Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, my first novel, currently out with Crime Wave Press and soon published in Spanish as well, is reviewed on acclaimed travel blog Vagablogging this week. The plot is precisely knit as a handmade, intricate Kashmiri carpet… writes reviewer Marco Ferrarese. Read the low down here.
Continue ReadingI am interviewed on the Garlic Never Sleeps blog about all things Crime Wave Press this week.
Continue ReadingCrime Wave Press is a new Hong Kong crime fiction imprint, launched by publisher Hans Kemp and myself in October this year. We now have four kicking titles out, though we have just sold world wide rights to The Cambodian Book of the Dead to British publisher Exhibit A, so that one’s no longer […]
Continue ReadingHeute erscheint die 2. Auflage meines Reiseführers zu den Tempeln Kambodschas – City Trip Angkor und Siem Reap im Verlag Reise Know How. Text von mir. Fotos von Aroon Thaewchatturat. Beschreibung: Drei tropische Inselparadiese im Golf von Thailand, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten und daher für jeden auch noch so verwöhnten Strandliebhaber etwas zu bieten […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been a real pleasure, a profoundly moving experience, and great fun meeting and hanging out with Nigel Brennan at the UBUD Writers and Readers Festival in Bali and, more recently, in Bangkok. Nigel is The Dirty Hostage, an Australian photojournalist who traveled to Somalia in 2008 and was kidnapped. The blurb to his incredible […]
Continue ReadingUK publisher Exhibit A, a new crime fiction imprint of Angry Robot, have just posted a PRESS RELEASE about signing my novel The Cambodian Book of the Dead and its sequel.
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