Magazine and Book Fair 2007

The first-ever Magazine and Book Fair, with more than 300 booths, highlights the growth of Thailand's....

Norman Mailer dies
Mailer was one of the most innovative and diverse writers in the United States

Princess Di "sleek but sad": speech
Biographer's speech fascinates the crowd with the touching story of Diana's serious purpose in life.

The Last Tycoons honoured
The book is a vivid account of the tumultuous evolution of Lazard, the investment bank.

Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature
Lessing is best known for her 1962 postmodern feminist masterpiece, The Golden Notebook.

Timothy Good keeps phoning home with evidence that the world's governments are covering up the alien....

The story of the Dutch engineer recruited in 1902 to irrigate Siam. No one was smiling after this episode ....

Buddhist Dictionary
By Ven Nyanatiloka Published by Silkworm Books Available at leading bookshops, Bt370
Tuk-Tuk to the Road
By Antonia BolingbrokeKent and Jo Huxster Published by Friday Books Available at Asia Books, Bt495
China Now
By N Mark Lam and John L Graham Published by McGrawHill Available at Asia Books, Bt1,100
The Kinwun Min-Gyi's London
By LE Bagshawe, Published by Orchid Press, 2006, Available at leading bookstores, Bt1,500

Creating a cop called Costa
David Hewson, in Bangkok to unveil not one but two new novels, says if you only write what you know,....
Grace and fun and freedom
In his second book on the subject, Brian Mertens remains effusive in his admiration for Thai art and design -....
Revealing the realm
A new book on Angkor by photographer Martin Reeves transports the reader into a dream world
New light on Suu Kyi
Justin Wintle once saw Burma's icon of democracy riding a bicycle at Oxford. He's learned a lot....

Vasu Sangsingkeo
Background: Diplomat
Panadda Wongpoodee
Background: former Miss Thailand and author of Piteekorn Course Rengrad(A Crash Course in Emceeing)