Thaifiction Publishing: 33 books

Trigger a car crash and you are fair game. A laugh-aloud look at the workings of Thai society today when it comes to milking a sucker dry. But when said sucker is into advertising, isn't it tit for tat? By the twice SEA Write Award winner of The Judgment (1982) and Time (1994) as well as Mad Dogs & Co, An ordinary story and A Baker's Dozen.

Bangkok in the late 70s. A tenanted house between jungle and modern civilisation. The girl next door is struck down by cancer and goes for Thai cures. Alternately self-righteous, smug, kindly and selfish, the male narrator is caught between the temptation to help and the need to look after number...

lover the doll an old cloth and a tray of mackerels the last drop of ink Alongside*Rart Eikkatheit's Three Worlds*, four more samples of the work of the most imaginative and versatile Thai writer of experimental short fiction, twice winner of the SEA Write Award.

Monks, murder, money, miracles and mystifications. Snakes galore and sleazy slitherings intertwined with scandal, suicide and rape in the central Thai village of Khoak Phranang – the first of a celebrated quartet of novels [see The Medium, Khoak Phranang and Lord of the Land under the ThaiFiction...

Thai hippiedom in its 1980s heyday. First serialised in a women's magazine, yet another masterpiece by the author of 1982 SEA Write Award winning The Judgment and 1994 SEA Write Award winning Time.

The scandalous 1994 Thai novel hailed as a world-class masterpiece

A crippled boy plays with his puppets and dreams of glory until the female cobra he disturbs by his show rushes at him. The life-and-death struggle that follows has but a predictable end – or has it? This tale has been translated into seven European languages, not to mention Braille, has...

Deep into the jungle, a young would-be hunter goes after a barking deer until he is stalked by a tiger – and, through the confrontation, finds himself. This powerful novella, written in the late 1980s after years spent in the jungles of Thailand fighting the government of the day, can be...

A 1930s Thai romance with a Japanese setting and a political message by one of the best stylists of Siam

A writer grappling with his characters – or is it the other way around? – in an impish homage to Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. Followed by 'A tale without a name', a layered short story plugged into the age of the internet and human incommunicability. With these two short fictions, Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa, a noted film critic, takes pole position in cutting-edge Thai writing.

Sex, guilt and retribution. Apparently inspired by the goings-on at a neighbouring palace during the author's childhood, this 1965 novel is set in the expansive residence of a retired nobleman whose carnal excesses set the tone for the whole community. The story focuses on the sexual rivalry between...

Against a background of frenzied land speculation where all sorts of dirty tricks are par for the course, who of Abbot Nian and Kharm the Medium will emerge as the Lord of the Land? The increasingly heated competition between the main protagonists of Snakes and The Medium offers a disturbing...

Thirteen short stories spanning a quarter century by the most incisive Thai satirist of the times

Sai Seema, a lawyer from the paddy fields, has his work cut out for him helping his farming relatives and convincing his lover's aristocratic parents that he deserves her hand. This prophetic, 1953 novel about the ghosts of time and rising radicalism in Thai society is widely considered as a masterpiece of art-for-life literature in twentieth-century Thailand.