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After more than 50 years in journalism, Bob Andrews decided it was time to come clean and disclose the tricks of his often maligned trade. Andrews—author of “Boom Boom Baby”: and “Sticky Rice at the Orchid Café—takes the reader on a tour of his old haunts in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. “It reads like a detective story,” said a writer for Le Monde, Paris.

‘From D for Dummy to M for Millionaire’ is a how-to-succeed book with a difference. Self-made businessman and author Myles Glew doesn't offer the usual glib advice about doing well at school and then getting as much tertiary education as possible. As he says, for some young people, this is a totally...

The ladies continue to reload and shoot back in this, the fourth volume of an adventurous cartoon book about the ladies of Pattaya, Thailand. You are the target and you have been hit.  Feel that? If this is your first visit to Thailand you may think of this book as a frivolous book of cartoons. But...

The ladies continue to reload and shoot back in this, the third volume of an adventurous cartoon book about the ladies of Pattaya, Thailand. You are the target and you have been hit.  Feel that? If this is your first visit to Thailand you may think of this book as a frivolous book of cartoons. But...

The ladies have reloaded and are shooting back in this second volume of an adventurous cartoon book about the ladies of Pattaya, Thailand. You need to duck!  This adventurous cartoon book will give you another chance to see yourself in one of the many typical situations we all seem to get into in...

Thai ladies shoot back in this adventurous cartoon book. It makes no difference if you are new to Pattaya, Thailand, or if you are an expat living here, you have been shot and hit! If you are visiting Thailand for the first time this book may appear to be a funny book of fiction. If you have been...

This book is a magical collection of twenty five traditional nursery rhymes and chants, all of which are about the animals and birds of Thailand. Despite first impressions, many Thai nursery rhymes are not really nonsense verses at all, but have been recited to children by their parents and grandparents...

Little Pong, a forest temple monk, suddenly gets his head stuck inside an alms bowl. Through fiction, the writer gives an hilarious tale of a naughty little monk who, in the end, wins the day and the hearts of all the forest temple monks. Full colour book suitable for children from pre-school to age 8. 

Justice, Please! is a modern love story set against the backdrop of Thailand’s current political difficulties.  Bob and Jasmine, on holiday in Pattaya, run into trouble just after the ASEAN demonstrations of April 2009.  They meet up with bad cops and more trouble than they bargained for – soon...

On the 26th of March 1995, sarin gas was released in a Tokyo subway station crammed with morning rush hour commuters and all hell broke loose. In the aftermath of anguish, death, painful injuries and broken lives, the deadly action was traced back to a cult called Aum Shinrikyo. What lay behind this...

Burma (or Myanmar as it is now called) is in the news for all the wrong reasons. It has been ruled for many years by a ruthless, repressive junta, it suffers regular earthquakes and the cyclone of May 2008 left more than a hundred thousand people injured, homeless or dead. Yet this is a magical place:...

It seemed a good idea at the time. The village chosen by Bob Andrews as a refuge from the chaos of Bangkok lay just off the north-south motorway. His partner Pan already ran the village store and noodle shop. Why not expand the business to include an English-style tea shop? But Bob hadn’t done his...

Have you ever dreamt of quitting your job and setting up a business in a tropical paradise, spending days lazing by the beach whilst the money comes rolling in? Most of us have had this dream at some time or the other but the reality can be alarmingly different. We follow the hilarious trials and...

True stoy of Raymond D. Clements who was born into a large family in a goldmining town in Central Queensland, Australia, after the end of the Second World War. He grew up with miners, stockman, drovers, and took to the road early in his life. Left school at 13 years and worked and taught himself to...