Month: October 2012

The White Elephant

A white elephant is something no longer wanted or of value (or a gift that is a curse); it can also refer to an Asian elephant. These meanings work in tandem in this illustrated chapter book, …

God of Darkness

God of Darkness set in Bangkok follows a group of expats who work for a telecommunications company. As the economic Crisis mounts, the pressures to find and keep a job increases. The lead character, Hurley, is …

Little Angels

The real-life stories of the novice monks in Little Angels reflect the lives of many youths in rural Thailand who are trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty, broken homes, illiteracy and drug abuse. When all …

Unbroken Connection

Against all odds, the couple that swept you away in TAKEN BY STORM is back. Michael is in Thailand diving his dream. Leesie is at BYU living hers. And they just can’t leave each other alone. …

Lali’s Passage

Loosely based on true events, Lali’s Passage is a novel which follows Lali, a beautiful young Burmese lady, as she is ‘discovered’ by Lee who arranges with her ‘mama sang’ to take her to the States …

Sightseeing

Starred Review. The Thailand of Westerners’ dreams shares space with a Thailand plagued by social and economic inequality in this auspicious debut collection of seven plaintive and luminous stories. In the title tale—an exquisite meditation on …

Upriver Journal: Travels Along the Mekong

In 2009, I spent a few months traveling in Laos and Thailand by bicycle and boat. This is the collected blog entries I made along the way, originally published on http://goplaces.wordpress.com.

Thai Women in the Global Labor Force

This text is an ethnographic examination of young women migrants in rural and urban Thailand. The author focuses on the hundreds of thousands of young women who fill the factories and sweatshops of the Bangkok metropolis, …

The Nation

Welcome to The Nation’s new designed to break new grounds for users of iPhone interested in and care about what is happening in Thailand. This is one of the world’s first few first-source paid news websites. …

Sleepless in Bangkok

In its initial release in Thailand, ‘Sleepless in Bangkok’ engendered a tremendous amount of controversy. It was unofficially banned for review in the press on the basis that it was ‘uncensored’. Sex in Thailand – as …

Bangkok A-Zon the cheap

An A-Z look at Bangkok, based on a six month jaunt, with helpful information on getting the right accommodation, travel tips, eating and drinking haunts, plus much more, and doing it all on a budget. I …

The Hunted

The Adventure of a Lifetime Becomes an Unimaginable Nightmare. A thrilling new novel from the Every Man series! John Majors and three friends–Mike, Hollis, and Dave–go to Thailand for the eco-adventure of a lifetime rafting on …

Learn Thai with Me

Two English teachers arrive in Saudi Arabia from the US in 1980–one a hunchback, the other “gay as your Uncle Harry.” As their friendship develops and they connect with the local population, they find themselves in …

The Queen of Patpong

Life in Bangkok is good for writer Poke Rafferty and his unlikely family. Poke’s new book is selling well, and he’s happily in love with wife Rose, once a Patpong bar girl. Daughter Miaow, just a …

Bangkok Today – 2011

Bangkok is the capital, largest urban area and primary city of Thailand. Known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (กรุงเทพมหานคร or กรุงเทพฯ) Krung Thep, meaning “city of angels” for short, it was a small trading …

Even Thai Girls Cry

Tippawan Bongkot is a young Thai woman on the run. Life as she knew it, ended the night she caught her fiancé with his lover. Her world collapsed the day she lost her job. Desperate to …