I'm always looking for new forms for my writing. Over the years I've published fiction long and short, essays, poems and light verse and enjoyed working with every medium. If there's one thing that I hope these books have in common, it's humour. I hope you have as good a time reading my books as I had when writing them.

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If You Can't Stand The Fun,
Stay Out Of The Go-Go

There's an arch over the road into Pattaya which welcomes you to 'The Extreme City'. Really. Some visitors find this a bit of an under-statement. Everything in Pattaya is taken to the limit - the spiciness of the food, the poor quality of the driving, the mysteries of Thai logic and, of course, the fun. This lively book of essays looks at life in Thailand's second city (arguably) from the point of view of an innocent foreigner lost in wonderment - Kuhn Pobaan, whose name we can perhaps agree to translate as 'Mr Househusband'. Reviews>> Blog>> More>>

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Sweet Song of the Siren

With Thailand as the exotic backdrop for many of these eleven tales, we meet a wide range of intriguing characters: men and women, foreigners and Thais, humans and... well, others. There's a murderer who sees himself in stone, an old woman dying of dementia, a troupe of argumentative monkeys, a man who finds a stash of love letters to his wife, some guy who falls in love with a body-part, and Kress, Thailand's most urbane private investigator, who has to cope with two lost boys. Humour and tragedy, plots with a twist, and always something to make you think. More>> Aussi en français>> Reviews>>

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The Middle Kid

Of my books, this is a personal favourite.

The Middle Kid is the story of Alex, an ordinary schoolgirl, and her struggle to be noticeable. With an older brother who is set for Olympic glory in the swimming pool and a younger brother who has emerged as a Latin genius, Alex is the middle child and apt to be ignored. Often, she feels she is the only one in her family who feels a responsibility to hold it together.
 
Feeling unappreciated, she knows she needs a plan. With busy parents and brothers with their own interests she first finds comfort in sleeping dreams. When these fail to deliver, she turns to a daytime dream of her own destiny for which encouragement comes from an unexpected source. More>>

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Topical sonnets for our age

In this collection of 36 new sonnets, I've tried to contrast the ‘innocence’ of pre-industrial man, living in balance with nature, with the ‘experience’ of our modern condition.

We have over-populated our little Earth, pushing other species to the margins or to extinction, wasting resources and polluting our very own habitat with our waste. Without a radical change in direction, the future looks bleak for mankind.
 
The inspiration for this book comes from Songs of Innocence and Experience by poet and illustrator William Blake (1757-1827). Though Blake’s concept of ‘the Fall of Man’ was more spiritual than practical, in keeping with the perspective of his age, the contrast with my premise is not as stark as you might expect. Despite his visionary insights, Blake had no conception of how far we would fall 200 years after his death, taking mankind to the brink not only of spiritual, but existential, disaster.

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Selected Short Stories of Thailand

 SamplesThis new book is a personal selection of short stories about Thailand made by my old friend and noted literary editor Robert Johnstone. The eighteen stories are drawn from all four of my story collections. In his introduction, Johnstone writes: "these stories examine many different aspects (not just that of intermarriage) of the various forms of love affair that spring up between Thailand, its people, its culture and its environment, and those who have come to know it."

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The Thailand Sonnets

What could be more unusual, and more alluring, than a collection of 38 sonnets all about modern life in Thailand?
                                         
Most people, including me, think of the sonnet as a rather dry form of verse, but in fact the rhythm and rhyme a sonnet requires make it proceed at a rollicking pace and the discipline of getting your point across in only 14 lines cuts the waffle and encourages economy of expression.
 
If you want to know about making merit, ladyboys, elephants, bar ladies, Songkhran, the jungle and all the other things that go with living in one of the most fascinating countries in Asia, then you may well enjoy this book.

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