Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
Burmese Light, a new photo book by Hans Kemp to which I contributed the text, has recently been reviewed in Wildlife and Landscape Photography Magazine. Read another recent review of Burmese Light by Ron Gluckman for The Asia Wall Street Journal.
Continue ReadingJennifer Jerome interviews me about Thailand’s sacred tattoos for The Chiang Mai City News this week. Read her story Ink of the Gods: The Myth and Magic of Sak Yant here. And check out my bestselling book on Thailand’s spirit tattoos, Sacred Skin, with incredible photography by Aroon Thaewchatturat. Sacred Skin is available in good […]
Continue ReadingThe Cambodian Book of the Dead (Crime Wave Press Asia edition), photographed by Eric Nelson.
Continue ReadingXplora Editorial now offer a great line in T Shirts based on their book titles, including Kathmandu, Camino al Infierno, the Spanish edition of my first novel The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu. Buy your sexy shirts here…. Or even better, get yourself a copy of Kathmandu, Camino al Infierno now!!! And check out the fantastic […]
Continue ReadingBurmese Light is #1 at Amazon UK in books about Myanmar this week. We have had magnificent press coverage in The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and on Yahoo News.
Continue ReadingThe Daily Telegraph has just published 36 Hours in Bangkok, my quick round-up of the Thai capital’s highlights. What to do, what to see, where to shop and when to drop. Check it out!
Continue ReadingMy new non fiction title Burmese Light has been subject of photographer Hans Kemp‘s exhibition at the OXO Tower Gallery in London this week. The private view on the 10th was a wonderful opportunity to catch up with old friends and see plenty of new faces interested in the magical light of Southeast Asia. We […]
Continue ReadingAroon Thaewchatturat‘s photographs of Thailand’s sak yant wearers, featured in our highly acclaimed book Sacred Skin, published by Visionary World in 2010, are going international. The Gewerbe Museum in Winterthur, Switzerland opens its first TATTOO exhibition today and large prints of Aroon’s images, blessed by eminent sak yant master Achan Neng Onnut, are part of […]
Continue Reading“For the armchair traveler, Mr. Kemp’s “Burmese Light” may be the most entertaining introduction to the country. Originally from the Netherlands, Mr. Kemp has lived in the region since the 1980s and is known for books from Vietnam and Cambodia. “‘Burmese Light’ is really about this moment in transition,” he explained before the book’s launch […]
Continue ReadingI get interviewed about The Cambodian Book of the Dead and Crime Wave Press by Stuart Beaton at The Small Picture Podcasts. Watch me read from The Cambodian Book of the Dead here. Shot and directed by Gerhard Joren.
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