The classic spy thriller is dead and buried. Alive and well all through the Cold War, once the Berlin Wall fell, the shovels came out...

3,000 copies of the book was delivered on 15th January 2007. In this 9th novel, Calvino goes up against a Thai-Chinese businessman who...

Calligraphy allowed the ancient Chinese to use kanji characters in many artistic forms. The art also was adopted in Japan. Alex Kerr,...

by Barry Hughart Del Rey Mass Marke: ISBN 0345321383 The novel has been called lyrical and won the World Fantasy Award in 1985. The...

Around 7.30 a.m. this morning I was on Silom and Rama IV waiting for the light to change. A military vehicle pulled to the curb and a...

I am reading Orhan Pamuk’s The New Life. This is an early novel by the Nobel Prize winning author having been published in 1997. The...

I have returned from five days in Phnom Penh and can report the bookstores have never had a better selection of books. Pirated editions...

I was home when the bombs exploded about 6.30 p.m. It didn’t take long for the news to spread. I had several SMS messages and phone...

A Story for Christmas Day in Bangkok. In 2000 Heaven Lake Press published my work of fiction titled Chairs. In terms of sales, the book...

I have been checking local bookstores—new and second-hand—for William Marshall’s Yellowthread Street Series. The first book in the...

Jake Needham will be signing his latest novel The Ambassador’s Wife at Kinokuniya, Emporium Branch. Jake will be on hand between 2.00...

When you read a novel set in your own turf, the details incorporated into the story must be right or the creditability of the...

Fabio Novel, an Italian novelist, has sent along a note about the publication of DizioNoir which is distributed throughout Italian...

There is a good piece from Detectives Without Borders featuring Qiu Xiaolong's A Case of Two Cities This is the fourth of Qiu Xiaolong's...

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A website for those who want their mysteries set in East Asia & Southeast Asia is Readers Advice China Japan Laos North Korea Southeast...

Howard Richardson (ex-Metro), Christopher G. Moore, Colin Cotterill (author), and Phil Cornwell-Smith (ex-Metro) On the opening night of...

It is 50 years since Jack Reynolds A Woman of Bangkok was published in New York. The ranking of the novel on amazon.com is #1,856,650....

Good news from our literary agent in Israel. Spirit House has been bought by one of Israel’s leading publisher and will be translated...

An essential part of the publishing process for a writer of fiction is finding the right action. They are the gatekeepers. The large...