A foreign focus

Stories and images collected from sixty years of international reporting on HM the King add up to a vivid and....

Norman Mailer dies
Mailer was one of the most innovative and diverse writers in the United States

Princess Di "sleek but sad": speech
Biographer's speech fascinates the crowd with the touching story of Diana's serious purpose in life.

The Last Tycoons honoured
The book is a vivid account of the tumultuous evolution of Lazard, the investment bank.

Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature
Lessing is best known for her 1962 postmodern feminist masterpiece, The Golden Notebook.

Timothy Good keeps phoning home with evidence that the world's governments are covering up the alien....

The story of the Dutch engineer recruited in 1902 to irrigate Siam. No one was smiling after this episode ....

The latest issue opens with the hottest looks from American television's biggest night - the Emmy Awards.....

Contact Wounds
By Jonathan Kaplan Published by Picador, 2007 Available at Asia Books
Buddhist Dictionary
By Ven Nyanatiloka Published by Silkworm Books Available at leading bookshops, Bt370
Tuk-Tuk to the Road
By Antonia BolingbrokeKent and Jo Huxster Published by Friday Books Available at Asia Books, Bt495
China Now
By N Mark Lam and John L Graham Published by McGrawHill Available at Asia Books, Bt1,100

Creating a cop called Costa
David Hewson, in Bangkok to unveil not one but two new novels, says if you only write what you know,....
Grace and fun and freedom
In his second book on the subject, Brian Mertens remains effusive in his admiration for Thai art and design -....
Revealing the realm
A new book on Angkor by photographer Martin Reeves transports the reader into a dream world
New light on Suu Kyi
Justin Wintle once saw Burma's icon of democracy riding a bicycle at Oxford. He's learned a lot....

Donald D Kummerfeld
Background: president of International Federation of the Periodical Press
Sheldon Shaeffer
Background: director, Unesco Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok