By Chavoret Jaruboon with Nicola Pierce

Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates in Thailand's infamous prisons. As a boy, he wanted to be a teacher like his father, but his life changed when he chose one of the hardest jobs in the world. Honest and often disturbing -- but told with surprising humour and emotion -- The Last Executioner is the remarkable story of a man who chose death as his vocation.

Paperback
Maverick House
2007
285 pages
ISBN 9781905379262

By Susan Aldous with Nicola Pierce

Susan Aldous had been on a path to self-destruction when she decided to give her life to others instead of wasting it away in Melbourne's dark underbelly. She left a world of drugs and petty crime behind and moved to Singapore, then to Thailand to work on a nine day project helping the socially disadvantaged. 18 years later she is still there.

Paperback
Maverick House
2007
225 pages
ISBN 9781905379323

By Andrew A Freeman

A Journalist in Siam is an account of Andrew Freeman's time spent at The Bangkok Daily Mail, an English Language newspaper published in Siam during the 1920s. Asked by the King Pradjadhipok himself to take over as editor, Freeman steps into a world where pride is the name of the game for Bangkok's small community of foreigners, the local police department has a direct hand in the trafficking of Chinese women, and love struggles against powerful social forces which seek to keep men and women from different cultures apart.

Paperback
White Lotus 2002
Reprint from 1928
357 pages
ISBN 9789744801135

By Andrew C. Shahriari

This work describes in detail the traditional music and dance of northern Thailand -- the area of the former Lanna kingdom and its legacy. The author has researched and performed the various musical instruments individually and in ensembles in Thailand and the United States. Numerous photographs accompany informative text that covers eight of the most common dances, more than fourteen khon muang instruments, and the eight primary ensemble traditions of the region.

Paperback
White Lotus 2006
168 pages
fully illus.
24 pp. color illus.
ISBN 9789744800770

A "rough" medical guide for foreign travellers in Thailand and S.E. Asia

This book by Anthony Aikman, a retired British doctor living in a Lahu village in northern Chiang Rai, is not just about stomach upsets but also every type of medical problem you could face wandering around Thailand.

Booksurge 2007
Paperback
ISBN 9781419668333
197 pages

Thailand through the eyes of an ex-pat

The stories and anecdotes in this book by a settled farang, or foreigner, in Thailand are full of the joys of life and celebrate this exotic and exciting land in all its glory, with painfully funny observations.

Paperback
Maverick House
Bangkok 2007
330 pages
Illustrated
ISBN 9781905379422

Thailand Nightlife Magazine

Full Color Glossy Magazine

Inside: The Girls of Heaven Above, Tiger Club, Shark Club, The Dollhouse in Pattaya

Magazine
Thailand 2007
40 pages

Pattaya/Bangkok Nightlife Magazine

Full Color Glossy Magazine

Inside: The Hottest Nightclubs! This issue packed with gorgeous girls! Cover Model's Photos! Praywa Suksawat's racy interview and sizzling pictorial.

Magazine
Thailand 2007
52 pages

One man's fight for life inside the "Bangkok Hilton"

Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin's autobiography chronicles an innocent man's struggle to survive inside one of the world's most dangerous prisons. Welcome to Hell is the remarkable story of how Colin was denied justice again and again.

Paperback
2006
Maverick Publishing
240 pages
ISBN 9780954870775

Studies in the Material Cultures of Southeast Asia No. 10

The first comprehensive survey of Southeast Asian bark-cloth. The book is richly illustrated with over 100 black and white and over 180 color photographs.

Paperback
Large Format Book
Bangkok 2006
White Lotus
327 pp., illus. 79 pp. in col.
ISBN 9789744800961

The Northern Mon-Khmer, Rawang, Upland Burmish, Lolo, Karen, Tai, and Hmong-Mien-speaking Groups

The book provides background on the history and cultures of these peoples and an extensive survey of their textiles based on numerous field studies by the author as well as on examination of museum collections and the existing literature.

Paperback
Large Format Book
Bangkok 2005
White Lotus
386 pp., fully illus.
ISBN 9789744800749

A hilarious romp through a year of expat living in Pattaya, Thailand

By the author of the best selling Money Number One, this book is the third in a trilogy of titles following "The Fool in Paradise" theme.

More than a collection of tales, A Fool's Diary chronicles a year in the life of a simple man; sometimes insightful, sometimes philosophical, but always with a dry wit that takes no prisoners.

Mitraphab Centre 2007
Paperback
ISBN 9780975695088
240 pages

Adult Coloured Cartoon Book

Michael J Baird, well-known for his work in the Pattaya Mail, has released the first in a series of books of coloured cartoons.

Paperback
2007
220 Pages

By Peter A. Reichart

Paperback
Size 210 x 295 mm
White Lotus
Bangkok 2007
ISBN 9789744801036
128 pages
40 pp. illus. in color

By P.A. Reichart and H. P. Philipsen

The chewing of betel and of miang (fermented tea leaves) is peculiar to Thailand. This work provides a comprehensive examination of all aspects of these habits. The history, the ritual, and sociological significance are all presented, as are the production and preparation of the chewing quids and the pharmacological effects of the ingredients on the body.

Paperback
White Lotus
Size 210 x 295 mm
Bangkok 2005
Expanded reprint from 1996
ISBN 9789744800732
171 pages
Fully. Illus. in col.

Added to the So Sethaputra English-Thai and Thai-English dictionaries are a pictorial dictionary, a personal dictionary, a computer dictionary, government and non-government organization lists, a crossword game, a pop-up dictionary and both English and Thai sound files to the main dictionary. You can access the dictionary from inside other programs such as Microsoft Word or an internet browser. There is also a Thai language video tutorial on the CD.

2007 New Edition - Includes The Damned of Thailand and The Kingdom in Conflicts

Short stories and essays on some of the major issues facing Thailand; child prostitution, the rape of the forests, the killing of rural activists and dying rivers and soil in the North-East.

Paperback
Bangkok 1994 7th. Edition
Shire Asia
147 pages
ISBN 9748912345

A collection of short stories, most from his first collection, Siamese Drama, published in 1983 plus two new stories. The stories deal with modern rural life in Thailand and the changes and problems occurring there.

Paperback
Bangkok 2002 Fifth Cycle Edition
Shire Asia
160 pages
ISBN 9748962857

The novel for which Pira Sudham was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature

Much like Pira's own life, the tale follows a poor farmer's son from the North-East (Esarn) to Bangkok and as an overseas student in England. This novel covers a period of immense change in Thailand, the clash of Western and Thai values, the student movement and the military repression of the 1970's.

Paperback
Bangkok 2002 Mahanaga Edition
Shire Asia
249 pages
ISBN 9748906736

A novel set in Jakarta, Singapore and Bangkok

English language expert Rodrigo Hernandez de Vargas is a familiar face in Jakarta's (in)famous Jalan Jaksa kampong, having lived there several years. He's got the place mapped, including where the open sewers are, is fluent in Bahasa Indonesia, got a great rooftop pad and makes enough money to look after himself, party on the weekend and take trips to various Asian destinations during term breaks.

Paperback
Bangkok 2007
Bangkok Book House
304 Pages
ISBN 9789748460703

By Elayne Clift

This lively collection of vignettes, pithy essays, profiles, humorous anecdotes and travel tales shares the experience of a seasoned American writer, traveler, and teacher who spent a year as a guest lecturer at a university in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Paperback
Bangkok 2007
Bangkok Book House
184 Pages
ISBN : 9789747051827

By The Bangkok Women's Writers Group

Bangkok Blondes is one of very few books on Thailand written by women and reflects the lives of creative women who live and write in Thailand - The Bangkok Women's Writers Group.

Paperback
Bangkok 2007
Bangkok Book House
236 pages
ISBN 9789740904274