Culture and history plays a big factor in way crime is organized. For those who get their organized crime information from the...

I had an email from a friend about the Yes Men I was unaware of their existence. “The Yes Men have impersonated some of the world's most...

For those of you looking for the next Vincent Calvino novel, it is now possible to pre-order The Risk of Infidelity Index. You will need...

Corruption in Asia is opaque. Behind the fogged window deals are cut, payments made, transfers to offshore accounts. If it were a...

Death of a Red Heroine (Soho Crime) (Paperback) by Qiu Xiaolong I came across this title through Detectives Beyond Borders: A Forum for...

The Spiegel Online has excerpted from “War for Wealth: The Global Grab for Power and Prosperity” by Gabor Steingart. The book has been a...

I am always on the lookout for new fiction set in Southeast Asia. I came across this novel by author Bruce Cook who trained as a...

Someone has come up with a clever idea to allow you to search your first and last name to see how many people in the United States...

The San Francisco Chronicle has a good story about the success behind the publication of Wu’s February Flowers. There are a number of...

B2S Bookstore has launched a promotion for Heart Talk. It is good to see the poster and display right at the front of the new B2S at...

In an article title *Big Money, Big Crime* I have a look at the Big money and big crime relationship in literature." It is an article I...

The New York Times reports, "The prize, an annual award of $10,000 to be known as the Man Asian Literary Prize, was announced yesterday...

Friday 13th October 2006, the fifth draft of The Risk of Infidelity Index scrolled down to the last page. Finished. In my heart of...

On Tuesday evening 10th October at Q-Bar, Bjorn Turmann launched his second novel The Karaoke World of Cortous Hair. Most of the brave...

The world’s largest and most important book fair runs from 4th to 9th October. For authors, the Frankfurt Book Fair is a good...

Writing the 5th draft of any book is a challenge. Keeping the entire structure in one’s mind is one of them. And maintaining the same...

On 20th September, I was at the bar of the Pera Palas Hotel. The Turkish newspaper ran photos of the recent events happening on the...

I returned from Florence today on an Air Emirates flight. The day started at 5.30 a.m. Florence time, pulling bags across the Arno River...

I will be back in this space on 5th October. It is time to take a short break. I need to go through the new Calvino (The Risk of...

Australian novelist Justine Larbalestier has some good tips on how to write that novel. She outlines a process of getting the novel...