by Jim Algie | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog, Book Reviews
T. Hunt Locke has mixed two of his paramount pastimes – history and thrillers – into an intoxicating highball, writes Jim Algie. The prologue flashes back to the American War of Independence, the siege of Boston and the Suffolk Resolves, when we’re introduced to the...
by Jim Algie | Apr 29, 2019 | Blog, Book Reviews, Travel Tales
Travel as an anti-aging agent is a persistent theme in this absorbing memoir. Throughout her witty and adeptly written travel memoirs, Janet Brown has taken the adage that “life is a journey” to a multifaceted extreme. In previous books, she has led readers through...
by Jim Algie | Dec 19, 2018 | Blog, Book Reviews, Personalities
Meet some of the expat authors, musicians and a painter who have helped to make Bangkok into an international hideaway for mavericks and outliers with a creative bent. Review by Jim Algie One of the first expats I met in Bangkok was a fellow teacher at my school. He...
by Jim Algie | Nov 16, 2018 | Blog, Book Reviews, Personalities
Before publishing his breakthrough book Bangkok 8, and five later entries in the series, John Burdett lived a life of novel-worthy plot twists among hippies in Europe, the criminal underclass in London, and the Hong Kong elite. By Jim Algie Of all the paths that lead...
by Jim Algie | Jun 26, 2018 | Blog, Book Reviews
The fifth book in the Junior Bender Mystery series brings together a compelling a cast of characters in a Hollywood thriller by Timothy Hallinan, writes Jim Algie in this review from Bangkok 101 magazine. Fans of Thailand-based novels will know the name Timothy...
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...
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