Short stories
Mango and Sticky Rice
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Mist on the Jungle
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A photographer hired to witness a murder, a colour-blind sperm donor, a ghost who misses his friends, a Canadian who pretends he's from Latvia, and a woman sure her children's will be the last human generation - these are just some of the fascinating characters with leading roles in this poignant collection of short stories. These stories are amusing, touching, sometimes comical and occasionally sad.
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This second collection of stories carries on some of the themes from the first - indeed, some individuals from the earlier collection make their reappearance here. Characters include a lascivious businessman who prefers lady-boys to ladies, a depressed sea-captain who threatens to sink his own ferry, a woman who eats more than just food, and a Thai widow who's looking for her late husband's roots in Crete.
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Sweet Song of the Siren
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The Day of the Tiger
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This new collection brings you more stories from Thailand and elsewhere. There's a man who falls in love with part of himself, a wife who's kidnapped by incompetents, an other-worldly story of salvation, a short-story writer who's confused about dates, a old woman dying of dementia and a murderer brought to justice by his own imagination. These stories have humour, tragedy and plot twists, but are always thoughtful.
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Characters whose tales are told in my fourth collection of short stories include a bank teller who suspects a colleague of murder, an old man who loses his shorts, a butcher reminiscing with his biggest customer and a ladyboy searching for love. Then there's the diary of one of the last two people on Earth, a market-stall tableau and a vision of eternity based on a favourite W B Yeats poem. It all adds up to a pretty varied selection.
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Omnibus 01
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Omnibus 02
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Selected Short Stories
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