Writing short stories that readers will remember even after they has turned the last page of the book is difficult. The difficulty lies in the fact that short story writing…

I like to read books that not only provide an entertaining reading experience but also give the readers an insight into bygone eras. By that I don’t necessarily refer to…

  Collin Piprell is a Bangkok-based Canadian writer, author of several books about Thailand: Bangkok Knights, Bangkok Old Hand, Yawn, and Kicking Dogs. He has been living and writing in…

Stephen Leather is an English writer, born in 1956 in Manchester, known worldwide for his high-packed action novels of crime, military and terrorism. But, in Thailand, he is mostly known…

Private Dancer by Stephen Leather is a book that was tremendously well-received in Thailand. Bernard Trink from Bangkok Post – the biggest English-language daily in Thailand – believes that “Private…

Larry Welch is an American writer, author of three books of nonfiction, who has been living in Thailand since 2007. He was born in 1942 in Michigan, and now resides…

Coming to Thailand and not reading Alex Garland’s The Beach is like going to the Louvre and not waiting in line to see Mona Lisa. It took me quite a…

The concept of collaboratively writing a novel, that is by multiple people together, is not new, especially that in the age of the internet, the technical part involved in such…

Everybody (publishers and literary agents) say that collections of short stories just don’t sell, but everybody seems to enjoy reading short fiction. I’m an avid reader of short stories and…

Jim Newport is a writer, film production designer and musician who has been dividing his time between Thailand and the US since 1991 . Born in New York, Jim now…