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...
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...
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