Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
Japanese actor Chikako Fukuyama’s long journey from Nagoya to Los Angeles, my latest story for Nikkei Asia this week. “I was so happy when Michelle Yeoh won the Oscar (for her lead role in the 2022 hit ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’),” says Japanese actor Chikako Fukuyama, 34. “That gives me hope,” says Fukuyama, who […]
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I occasionally get letters from readers telling me that they loathe throwing money at Amazon to read my work. My publisher, Next Chapter, no longer exclusively deals with Amazon when it comes to ebooks (or any other format) and my books are more widely available now. All my fiction, 5 novels and a novella collection, […]
Continue ReadingMy latest feature with Laure Siegel for the Nikkei Asian Review – Japan’s love affair with Alsace grows stronger. After 150 years, French region continues to attract Japanese companies “If a Japanese company wants to get off the ground in France, it will move to Paris,” says Japanese entrepreneur Kentaro Kitajima. “If it wants to […]
Continue ReadingI am very happy to have published a feature with Laure Siegel on the very brilliant anarchist art collective Pungrok Sulap in Ranau, Borneo in the Nikkei Asian Review this week. Read the full text here.
Continue ReadingI just wrote a new article on Thailand’s sacred tattoos in the Nikkei Asian Review. Photographs by Aroon Thaewchatturat.
Continue ReadingAfter having one of our titles, Mindfulness and Murder in the Top 100 Crime novels on Amazon this week, Crime Wave Press introduces it’s latest thriller: Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio. Gaijin Cowgirl is a high octane adventure introducing Val Benson, flaky Tokyo hostess and utterly unreliable protagonist who stumbles across a map to one […]
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 ReadingNice spread and review of my book (with co-author Aroon Thaewchatturat) Sacred Skin on Japanese blog Miyakeaya. Sacred Skin was designed by acclaimed and award-winning London illustrator Austin @ NEW.
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