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Reviews of my books and interviews
Former MTV Host Gives Phantom Lover Major Review in Asia’s Biggest English Daily
David Kendall, the former creator and host of the MTV alt.rock show “120 Minutes,” gives the Phantom Lover collection of horror and noir a four-star review in the South China Morning Post, Asia’s biggest English-language daily, in its January 3, 2015...
Five-Star Review of the Phantom Lover Collection of Horror and Noir
Steph Johnson gives Jim Algie’s short story collection The Phantom Lover two thumbs up on Thailand website. “People are a lot like snakes. They’re very fast and tricky, and you can never predict how harmless or dangerous they might turn out to be.”...
Jim Algie Interview for Phuket News About His New Book
The Phuket News interviews Jim Algie, author of The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand, about why quite often fiction is the only way to tell the truth about Thailand, in the February 5th, 2014 edition. Email interview by Jody Houton What in your...
Straits Times reviews Bizarre Thailand
Mark Fenn reviewed the nonfiction collection Bizarre Thailand in Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper, giving the book a big thumbs up and singling out some of the funnier lines. Illuminating and irreverent, it offers a taste of Thailand far from Bangkok’s glitzy...
Christopher G Moore reviews Bizarre Thailand
“I’d recommend Bizarre Thailand to anyone who wants a new perspective about Thai cultural elements that have made and continue to make Thailand unique and amazing. Algie has taken his journalistic instincts inside the half-concealed enclaves, which shields the most...
Bangkok Post lauds Algie’s book as first collection of Asian horror by an expat author
The new Jim Algie collection of tales comprises an expat’s notes from Thailand’s underground, and what may be the first collection of Asian horror written by an expat author in English, says Lary Wallace in The Magazine of the Bangkok Post Phuket snake-handler with a...
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