Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
Name: Tom VaterNationality: German, Asia-basedOccupation: Writer, editorCurrent publication: Tom Vater’s new book SHARKMAN, is out now. Order on Amazon.Recommendations: Where to even start …Two pieces of music that affected me – Exile on Main Street by the Rolling Stones and Bitches Brew by Miles Davis.Two books that affected me – Youth by Joseph Conrad and […]
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Here are the book links to all my titles. Thanks to all my readers for many years of support… these stories have been more than 20 years in the making. Keep reading books! The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu In 1976, four friends – Dan, Fred, Tim and Thierry – are on a bus along the […]
Continue ReadingThe 4th, brand new edition of my bestselling German language guide to the islands in the Gulf of Thailand – Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao is out now! If you have sun & beach at the top of your list, you should love Ko Samui. Because the island offers everything for the perfect […]
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What do you make of my favorite books on Thailand? Check out my latest rundown for Shepherd.
Continue ReadingJD Strange aka Bangkok based writer and film producer James Newman interviewed me on Bangkok crime fiction for Strange TV. This is a segment from a longer documentary on Bangkok fiction, currently in production. Thanks, James! Watch the interview here. All my crime fiction titles are currently published by Crime Wave Press.
Continue ReadingThe third updated edition of Moon Angkor Wat, my English language guide to the Angkor temples in Cambodia is out now, both in print and ebook format. Reviewer Janet Brown had this to say: I’m the kind of person who reads guidebooks to remember where I’ve been as well as to plan my next destination […]
Continue ReadingThe brand new third edition of my Moon Guide to the Angkor Wat temples is out now and it looks fantastic. Here’s my complete line-up of titles for Moon, a US based travel guide publisher. Get your copy here. Reader and fellow author Janet Brown wrote: I’m the kind of person who reads guidebooks to […]
Continue ReadingHere’s my new and very slick professional profile at Clippings.me. Thanks for taking a look. Sure beats LinkedIn.
Continue ReadingAsia, mon amour. Every time I go out in the street in my adopted continent, I see something that, by the central European standards I grew up with, is outrageous, logic defying, irresponsible, shocking or at the very least unusual. Sometimes it is terrible, at other times beautiful. Sometimes it is trivial,sometimes sublime, at other […]
Continue ReadingWhere it all started – standing atop a sand dune in the Draa Valley around Zagora in southern Morrocco in 1992. It looked and was unbearably romantic. I can still smell the sand today. Zagora was to become one of the main locations for the shoot of Paul Bowles‘ incredible novel The Sheltering Sky which […]
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