One feature of Thai history are the smaller kingdoms that pre-date the formation of what is now known as Thailand. The Northern region...

Stephen Leather’s Private Dancer now has 11,000 copies in print. Originally offered as a free down load on Stephen’s website, the...

Some of the enduring novels written about Southeast Asia are Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, George Orwell’s Burmese Days, and...

Does it matter where the novel is set? A recent report by Bowker, the world's leading provider of bibliographic information, examined...

A new novel by Colin Cotterill was reviewed and given the thumbs up by Nicholas Grossman in Thai Day The novel is something of a first...

Brad Lang, the author of a private-eye series featuring Fred Crockett and who maintains a website called Hardboiled Heaven has kindly...

There are many motives behind the decision to write fiction. One reason is to secure a legacy by producing a number of books that will...

New York, London and Toronto may be the first places where readers, authors and others in the publishing business think of as the place...

Chris Mitchell at Splinters provides the right kind of encouragement: “Bangkok-based author Christopher G. Moore, who I interviewed a few...

The Guardian has an article about the impending end of the traditional publishing paradigm. Cutting down trees for paper to print books...

One of the leading translators of Indonesian fiction is Noriaki Oshikawa, a professor in the Faculty of International Relations at...

An author walking the plank is a common fate. Here's the story of how one well-known English author was one book away from swimming with...

The Agora Gallery at 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York is holding a reception for Chris Coles’ Vivid Perspectives. The show runs...

Jim Newport will read and sign copies of his latest vampire novel Ramone, the Return of the Vampire on 17th January 2006 from 7.00 p.m....

Mark Schreiber who writes from the Japan Times, among other publications, has written a Foot Note on the Yellow Peril. In this profile...

The question for authors is whether they have an obligation to be faithful to the culture, language, geography and history of the place...

Tash Aw's The Harmony Silk Factory has won the Whitbread 2005 Best First Novel Award. Aw who is Malay/British, tells his story through...

After the Booker, the Whitbread is arguably the most important literary award in Britain. The beer company that has lent its name to...

An enterprising journalist in England typed out a chapter from V.S. Naipaul’s novel A Free State (ranked 309,000 on Amazon) and from...

It is amazing to find copies of the first edition of Cut Out offered for US$39.95 to US$69.31. I wish I had kept a stock of these early...