Lang Reid
A History of the World
One would imagine that a history of the world has, by now, been done to death. We know when the ‘Big Bang’ went off...
Korea The Impossible Country
Thais seem to have a fascination for Korea and all things Korean, and I thought this week’s review book from Tuttle Publishing might explain...
A Wanted Man
A couple of weeks ago I was in the Bookazine in The Avenue, and picked up “True Colours”, written by Stephen Leather. In my...
True Colours
Stephen Leather is a prolific author, with 14 novels and another nine in the Spider Shepherd series. He has just penned another Spider Shepherd...
Rod, the Autobiography
With “Maggie May” running through my subconscious, I opened “Rod, the Autobiography” (ISBN 978-0-09-957475-0, Arrow Books, 2012) and began reading. After several hours of...
22 Walks in Bangkok
22 Walks in Bangkok and written by (walked by?) Kenneth Barrett (ISBN 978-0-8048-4343-0, Tuttle Publishing, 2013) arrived on my desk, brought in by our...
The China Memoirs of Thomas Rowley
This latest book from the prolific Dean Barrett, “The China Memoirs of Thomas Rowley” (ISBN978-0-9788888-3-1, Village East Books, 2013) is written as “memoirs” of...
1000 years of annoying the French
I re-read this book 1000 years of Annoying the French (ISBN 978-0-552-77575-5, Bantam Press, 2010) by Stephen Clarke, a writer who these days lives...
The Marriage Tree
This 14th novel to feature author Christopher G. Moore’s Private Eye Vincent (Vinny) Calvino should be on the Bookazine shelves by the time you...
Latest Stories
Pattaya Social Welfare Dept. hosts disability rights check in collaboration with employment office
PATTAYA, Thailand – Mrs. Niramon Thamthatto, Director of the Social Welfare Department, and her team welcomed officials from the Employment Office for a disability...
NCSA Secretary-General promotes cyber safety through games and donates essentials to children at CPDC
PATTAYA, Thailand – At the Child Protection and Development Center (CPDC) in Huay Yai, East Pattaya, Air Vice Marshal Amorn Chomchoey, Secretary-General of the...
Woman reports safe theft at Pattaya apartment, loses nearly 2 million baht in gold...
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pol. Maj. Col. Itthikorn Saikratok, investigator at Pattaya City Police Station, received a report of a burglary involving the theft of...
Barbecue dinner gone wrong in Pattaya – Heated argument over music ends in bloodshed
PATTAYA, Thailand – Police from Banglamung Police Station, Chonburi, were alerted to a violent altercation involving a group of teenage girls outside a barbecue...
Colorful car lights land Russian tourist in trouble in Pattaya
PATTAYA, Thailand – A Russian tourist was fined 500 baht for decorating his car with colorful flashing lights in Pattaya on December 17. The...