Matt Owens Rees: 14 books

Thailand is known as the Land of Smiles. But never assume that smiles mean the same as they do in the West. Smiling is quite automatic in Thailand. A monk once told me that Thais were boirn with smiles on their faces! Matt Owens Rees discusses the many different types of smile and gives several real-life illustrations in this free volume.

  Escape to Thailand is an account of an English emigrant's move to Thailand and his early days here. Following a bitter divorce and a forced early retirement from his job, Derek struggles with making the final decision to leave England for good and settle for the rest of his life in Thailand....

The truth of the conspiracy between the UK and Canadian governments and a Welsh mafia family from Cardiff following a suspicious fire at the mafia family home. Released archives now give conclusive details of the murders in the mafia family home in the Port Hope Simpson settlement in Newfoundland,...

Thailand Take Two looks at Thais and Thailand in a unique way. It is not a politically correct travel guide written to promote tourism and showing only the rosy side of Thailand. Real characters are introduced in the book to show how Thailand's culture is so different from Western concepts....

There are many misconceptions about mafias. And, not all mafia families are the same, whether in Thailand or elsewhere. There can be ruthlessness, violence, and killings in the underworld of organised crime. Considered unacceptable in a modern and civilsed society. But there is another side...

*The Death of a Thai Godfather *is a fictional story spanning three generations of the Parin family in Bangkok and northern Thailand. While the word mafia conjures up, in the minds of most readers, images of rivalries and violence among powerful families, Thai mafias are somewhat different. While...

A Thailand Diary: volume 1 is the first in a series of easy-to-read diary entries of life in the Land of Smiles. Some entries are short, some entries are humourous, All are true descriptions of events which actually happened. Only names have been changed.  48,000 words covering each...

An Unabriged Diary of an Expat's Experiences in Thailand. His hopes, dreams, and ambitions. The frustrations and how Culture Shock gave him problems

How a Thai Christian considered the work of the early missionaries in Thailand and how its limited success was caused by a failure to fully understandThai culture and the Thai people  References to a doctoral thesis

A Thailand Diary takes you into the lives of ordinary Thais through its 365 entries Thailand Take Two is a comprehensive analysis of Thai lifestyle and culture

Hidden Thailand comprises 5 books on Thai Lifestyle and Culture A Thailand Diary shows, through its 365 pages, a real Thailand that many do not see. The 10 chapters of Thailand Take Two look at the main cultural concepts found in Thailand, its different lifestyle and values. From Face...

With real people and real events, take a virtual tour of everyday life in the Land of Smiles buy browsing this selectopm of Diary Entries. Meet some interesting characters (only names have been changed) and I suspect you'll be surprised at some of their stories. Thailand wil never cease...

Derek explains in some detail what led up to his bitter divorce in England and the doubts he had about moving to Thailand to be with the woman he had met on a Thai dating site. He describes what eventually made up his mind. But even then, there were times when he was unsure if he was making...

Escape to Thailand The true story of an English man who emigrated to Thailand The Death of a Thai Godfather Although a novel, you may see some reality as this story of a Thai mafia family unfolds