Books On Line


Holidays often provide the opportunity to catch up with some reading. To enjoy your time in Thailand even more why not immerse yourself in the culture by reading books about, or set in, Thailand?

Or perhaps brush up on some Thai phrases before you go? People always appreciate others who make an effort to learn the local language and Thai's are no exception-it really does help!

The following books can be purchased on line from DCO Thailand and Amazon . Both will provide you with an excellent selection but the ones we have listed below come personally recommended!

Thai For Beginners(Best Seller) Teaches all four language skills - speaking, listening, reading and writing. Effective for independent self-study, offering clear, easy, step-by-step instructions, building on what has been previously learned. THe book is written in a brisk, interesting style by a native Thai speaker fluent in English and experienced in teaching the Thai language. Thai for Beginners is THE perfect language guide for your journey to the Land of Smiles - Thailand.

Out of the Loop A comedy set in Koh Samui, Thailand's tropical island paradise Ever felt like cashing in your chips and moving to a tropical island paradise? In dread of waking up one morning twenty years on, with nothing to show for himself "other than one busted marriage, two unpublished manuscripts, three career changes, a four bedroom house, a five handicap at golf, and a six-figure income," McFinn decides to go on the bum and scratch his itch for authorship ... quitting his job, selling the house, kissing the old lady, and kicking the dog on the way out. Our hero retreats to the idyllic tropical shores of Koh Samui, making his new home a rustic bungalow "in a seaside compound for impecunious tourists, tramps, vagabonds, and the occasional fugitive ... " Most stay a few weeks, but no one stays longer than he does, encountering assorted bums, bores, boors, and beautiful women (with varying degrees of romantic success and disaster) along the way.

Private Dancer(Best Seller) Love, Lies and Death in the Land of Smiles The on-line cult novel chronicling the disastrous relationship between a travel writer and a Bangkok bargirl, is finally available in print. The on-line version of the novel, written by best-selling thriller writer Stephen Leather, has been downloaded more than sixty thousand times over the past five years. Now the decision has been taken to publish the book in Thailand! Highly recommended.

The Big Mango What happened to the Bank of Vietnam's $400 Million? From the Big apple, to the Big Orange, to the Big Mango. It had a kind of nutty logic to it, he figured. Bangkok was about as far as he could get from California without falling off the edge of the world. Although at times, he thought that was exactly what he had done. Sucked into the jagged netherworld of Bangkok, the promise of a benign ramble through lavish hotels and low-life bars quickly turned sour. Eddie was soon hurtling breathlessly through a corkscrewed realm where big-time crooks tangoed with small-time hustlers, and the downright scary jostled with the merely raffish for center stage in the big leagues of crime in Thailand.

Even Thai Girls Cry An expat cult classic - Probably the best novel out of Pattaya. Bad Luck Lady. She calls herself that sometimes. Tippawan Bongkot is her given name but everyone knows her as Math. She doesn't know where the nickname came from; she just accepts it without question as a proper Thai lady should. Math is a beautiful young lady in a mad dash to find herself. What she finds instead is love and death. Math's frantic search takes her from the sizzling resort town of Pattaya on the southeast coast of Thailand to the beautiful city of Chiang Mai in the north. From the bed of her American lover to the arms of her dying father,living each day as if it might be her last. Happy and sad, funny and tragic, Math is true and false, fact and fantasy. The story you about to read is based on actual events. Only the details are fiction.

Spirit House The first in the Vincent Calvino Private Eye series. The Bangkok police already have a confession by a nineteen-year-old drug addict who has admitted to the murder of a British computer wizard, so the case is wrapped up. Only there are some loose ends that the police and just about everyone else is happy to over look. Click on this link to be taken to a page of books by the author, Christopher G Moore, all with an Asian theme.

Missing In Thailand Living in Thailand where her ambitious husband works, she discovers the ultimate betrayal. She unearths blackmail, both financial and emotional, as she sees her husband torn apart by guilt and fear. Set in two continents, this is a dark, thought-provoking story about how we may, or may not, cope with the shock of deceit and the ensuing emotional tidal-wave, whether we can really know the person closest to us and if we can ever overcome the watershed of personal loss and tragedy. And, do we ever know ourselves?