Lusty landlubbers set sail

Life is lived to the fullest in a tale of six young men's adventures on a 30,000-mile trip around the....

Three days in Old Siam
From the gossipy account of a Dutch traveller's trip to Ayutthaya in 1665 comes a detailed picture of....

The gilded kingdom
Emma Bunker and Douglas Latchford continue their journey into the lost world of Khmer treasure

Ms in the Mango
There's not a girlie bar in sight, thank God, in these short stories by farang women living in Bangkok.....

Che, eventually
Perhaps 'The Motorcycle Diaries' had something to do with a father's recollections being....

Turning 63 in March, Eric Clapton surveys his sober domestic bliss and recalls, amid poignancy and pain, the....

Richard Russo, the sage of upstate New York, explains six decades in a life that never graduated from high....

The latest issue kicks off 2008 with a bilingual cover story for prospective foreign investors covering the....

A tribute to the tusker
As India's pachyderm population declines, there's a nostalgic yearning for the long-lost mystique of....
Plugging that brain drain
The Wisdom Paradox By Elkhonon Goldberg Published by Pocket Books, 2007 Available at Asian Books, Bt450
Meet Keller the lizard killer
More Living Thai Ways Part III By Michael Keller Published by Bangkok Books, 2006 Available at Asia Books,....
Contact Wounds
By Jonathan Kaplan Published by Picador, 2007 Available at Asia Books

'Dead' writer talking
Author Peter James, whose tales of a fictional British police detective sell in the millions, is quite at ease....
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