Leafing through the East

A selection of 2007's best books on Asia delivers a vivid picture of continental shifts

The Indian paradox
A new book about India looks at a society that is still trying to come to grips with modernity

'Obambi' bites back
US presidential candidate Barack Obama touts his optimism and street smarts

A foreign focus
Stories and images collected from sixty years of international reporting on HM the King add up to a vivid and....

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

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 ....

After several near misses, Maxim has finally snapped up Sririta Jensen for its cover.

Contact Wounds
By Jonathan Kaplan Published by Picador, 2007 Available at Asia Books
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

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....

Dr Marcus Oliver Mohr
Background: President of Faberge Jewellery & Watches
Donald D Kummerfeld
Background: president of International Federation of the Periodical Press