The Best Books on Thailand
What do you make of my favorite books on Thailand? Check out my latest rundown for Shepherd.
Continue ReadingEclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
What do you make of my favorite books on Thailand? Check out my latest rundown for Shepherd.
Continue ReadingIt’s hard picking just five best books on Cambodia. A lot has been written on the beautiful and troubled Southeast Asian kingdom. So here are a few favorites. Check out my selection of the Best Books on Cambodia. Happy reading.
Continue ReadingWith great sadness, Hans and Tom have decided to wind down Crime Wave Press after publishing 37 crime novels from around the world in the past 12 years. Several of our titles were published in foreign languages and as audio books, a few were optioned for movie rights. We’re proud to have shifted tens of […]
Continue ReadingI am at the second Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Mandalay, organized by Jane Heyn, the wife of the former British ambassador to Myanmar. This second festival is held in Mandalay and has been in preparation for almost a year. Top writers appearing this time around include Jung Chang, Louis de Bernieres, and Thant Myint U. […]
Continue ReadingIt doesn’t have a cover yet though the publication date has been confirmed by Exhibit A. My second Detective Maier Mystery is out in April – The Man with the Golden Mind is a tale of espionage, double-crossings and murder set against the historical backdrop of the US secret war in Laos – the largest […]
Continue ReadingThe second Bangkok Night of Noir had a fantastic line-up of mostly Asia based crime writers: Cara Black, James Newman, John Burdett, Christopher G. Moore, Dean Barett, John Marango and painter Chris Coles. Great start to 2014!!! I read a chapter from The Man with the Golden Mind, which is out with Exhibit A in […]
Continue ReadingThe London launch of my new thriller The Cambodian Book of the Dead went off beautifully, with lots of old friends and new readers showing up to my reading. Thanks to everyone who turned up! Commissioning editor Emlyn Rees from Exhibit A Books did the best introduction I’ve ever had and the Q&A was interesting. […]
Continue ReadingI will be talking, from the hip and to the hippest at tonight’s Bombyx Stories, a regular spoken word even at the WTF (what the fuck) Bar (on Sukhumvit Soi 51) in Bangkok tonight. Other performers include John Gartland, Aaron Grieser, Wesley Hsu, Andrew Kingham, Donald Quist, Mrigaa Sethi, Chris Wise and James Yu. Show […]
Continue ReadingI will be reading from my second novel, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, published in Thailand and Cambodian by Crime Wave Press, and from June world wide by Exhibit A Books in the UK. The Bangkok Night of Noir is the brainchild of writer James Newman. The venue, the Check Inn 99 is legendary, […]
Continue ReadingPublisher Visionary World have released a short promo clip for Sacred Skin – Thailand´s Spirit Tattoos, featuring a recent talk of mine at Bangkok´s first literary festival, organised by the Neilson Hays Library on May 22nd. The clip, also featuring a few pages from our forthcoming book, can now be seen on YouTube!
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