This epoch-making novel, set in the rural central Thailand of the 1980s,is a scathing satire and chilling endictment of modern society,which makes heroes of 'fuckin' cheats'and condemns upright citizens out of sheer hypocrisy.It earned its author his first SEA Write Award in 1982.Twelve years later, his second award, for Time,confirmed Chart Korbjitti as the most outstanding novelist of his generation

Thirteen short stories spanning a quarter centuryby the most incisive Thai satirist of the times

Thai hippiedom in its 1980s heyday.First serialised in a women's magazine,yet another masterpiece by the author of1982 SEA Write Award winning The Judgment and 1994 SEA Write Award winning Time.

Take half a dozen old women, a monk, sundry vendors,a few kids, a movie director, a madman and a half-wit;add a soda bottle and the silver shadow of lotuses;shake well; and presto:rich and taut and sweet and tart, Time,crowned by the 1994 SEA Write Award,is a masterly cocktail of laughs and tears.A must-read for all over forty– and for all those of all ages who want to understandthe changing values of Thai society

Bangkok in the late 70s.A tenanted house between jungle and modern civilisation.The girl next door is struck down by cancer and goes for Thai cures.Alternately self-righteous, smug, kindly and selfish,the male narrator is caught between the temptation to helpand the need to look after number one.This not so ordinary story, whose narrative techniqueis akin to Albert Camus's The Fall, has an altogether different import:the gir...

Trigger a car crash and you are fair game.A laugh-aloud look at the workings of Thai society today when it comes to milking a sucker dry.But when said sucker is into advertising, isn't it tit for tat?By the twice SEA Write Award winner of The Judgment (1982) and Time (1994) as well as

Ever Harding, an average teenager with a passion for swimming is about to turn eighteen. Out of the blue she has been dumped by her long time boyfriend, which is the ultimate of tragedies in her life. Little does she know that on that fated eighteenth birthday, she will have to make a choice that will change her life as she knows it, forever.A month before her birthday, Ever meets Jack, a mysterious new boy with mesmerizing eyes. He affects her like no one else. This meeting sets th...

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble.After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more successful contemporaries, leaving him bitter and resentful, one of his old friends asks him to pay an unofficial visit to a couple of blackmailers. He readily agrees, only to arrive to find one of the pair lying in a pool of blood. When the victim dies in hospital, Sigurdur Oli is faced with investigating a murder without revealing his own reasons for being pre...

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time'Such clever writing, engaging flawed characters. Dick Francis never disappoints' 5***** Reader Review'A great read . . . Dick Francis pulls out all the stops**'** 5***** Reader Review'No one does mystery better than Francis. You just can't put the book down' 5***** Reader Review______Champio...

Travel writer Poke Rafferty was good at looking for trouble—so good that he made a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. But that was before Bangkok stole his heart. Now the expat American is happily playing family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and with Miaow, the wary street child he wants to adopt. Yet just when everything is beginning to work out, trouble comes looking for Poke in the guise of good intentions. First ...

Separated from her real mother at birth, Anya grew up in terror of her drunken bullying uncle. Beaten, humiliated and sexually abused by him from the age of six, she thought her life couldn't get worse. But one day it did."I was used to Daddy screaming 'whore's child' at me, over and over again. But I couldn't get used to what he made me do."Anya was too terrified to tell anybody about what her uncle did to her. But then he got careless and started abusing her in front of t...

These are the fascinating real life stories of heartbreak and hope, direct from the frontline. A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding to death from a stab wound; a distraught mum watches, in mute shock, as her daughter suffers a terrifying fatal asthma attack; a young girl is gang raped and her stricken boyfriend takes an overdose; a disturbed young man flings himself in front of a speeding train at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. Few people can imagine living in a world wh...