by Jim Algie | Apr 8, 2017 | Book Reviews, My Reviews
The spirit of George Orwell, and his writings in 1984 and Animal Farm, is alive and giving hell to amoral authoritarians everywhere in this new anthology In a digital age and so-called “post-truth” era of fake news, when attenuated attention spans have...
by Jim Algie | Aug 8, 2016 | Book Reviews, My Reviews
Christopher G. Moore’s Vincent Calvino series is not only a fine collection of finely calibrated mysteries; it’s also a chronicle of many major upheavals – political, criminal, pathological and even psychosexual – which have upset Southeast Asia over the last two...
by Jim Algie | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog, Book Reviews, My Reviews
Crime and corruption, hookers and hitmen, the new anthology Bangkok Noir makes a case for hardboiled crime fiction in the Thai capital with bullet points. Jim Algie reads you their writes In the middle of 2011, some eight years after the Thai government’s “War on...
by Jim Algie | May 31, 2016 | Book Reviews
A new book maps out more than 20 walking tours of Bangkok that show some different sides and rough edges to the pedestrian-unfriendly capital. Most visitors come away with the impression that Bangkok is not a city for walking. Vendors, stray dogs and food carts hog...
by Jim Algie | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Book Reviews
The Phuket News interviews Jim Algie, author of The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand, about why fiction is quite often the only way to tell the truth about Thailand, in the February 5th, 2014 edition. Email interview by Jody Houton What in your...
by Jim Algie | May 30, 2016 | Blog, Book Reviews, Press
David Elmer, writing in the South China Morning Post, Asia’s biggest English-language daily, gave Algie’s Phantom Lover a four-star review in its January 3, 2015 edition. Asian horror fiction is an expanding, yet still relatively unknown genre. Its rise follows the...
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