Far East category: 759 books

You put all your trust into a so-called friend but the lies they tell can lead to a bitter end. What is bigger in you, your ego or your mind when your heart is broken by every love you find? We all have a dream, but can your dream become real or will the reality of your dream turn into a nightmare....

A perceptive insight of expat life in Thailand, with a pleasing blend of humour and shrewd comment. Read stories that shed light on a place that millions of tourists every year find fascinating, puzzling, and infuriating.

Teachers College didn’t prepare him for this! Stung by a scorpion, coerced into singing an 80’s Karaoke love duet with his tearful boss - twice, performing military drills under the guise of teacher development and living in a desolate, eerie house surrounded by swamp and jungle are a sample of...

The story continues where it left off with the main character’s visit to the hospital. In this book the reader becomes the Judge and Jury over Pete and Mollies affairs. Jealousy remains a serious problem throughout and the Step-Son lands himself in deep water with the police yet again. More funny...

The Ups and Downs part three continues on from where the story finished up, with the main character pondering over his future. How can anyone feel secure about living in a foreign country when visas have to be renewed on a yearly basis? Also he is drawn towards a return to England where he can earn...

Peter Jaggs has probably written and sold more books about the raunchier side of life in Thailand than any other author alive or dead. The brutal accuracy of his writing in a genre that is unavoidably always going to be controversial has inevitably provoked reaction from offended internet trolls accusing...

Bright and early on a humid August morning, Jake Hollingsworth boarded an airplane bound for the other side of the world. With his wife of 14 days, he was headed for a land called South Korea. They knew next to nothing about where they were going and what they were getting themselves into. But who...

Thousands of young adults pass through South Korea each year, teaching English in private schools that together make up one of the country's largest industries. Korea, long isolated by culture and geography, with a complex language and set of social mores, can be a difficult place to call home....

With all the intrinsic interest of Marco Polo's Book it may perhaps be doubted if it would have continued to exercise such fascination on many minds through succesive generations were it not for the difficult questions which it suggests. It is a great book of puzzles, whilst our confidence in the man's veracity is such that we feel certain every puzzle has a solution.

Secrets of the Thais from Phra Attit Road to Sukhumvit Like the first work [Siam Smile/s], this book intends to point out how amusing humans are, especially when one is in a different country, as all the awkward and untoward things stick out like elephants wearing sunglasses. There are hysterical...

Für alle die Toy-und Nooks in Thailand .:-) Maches wie die meisten Thai Männern in den Massagesalons, etc. tun: shag 'em, zahlen sie, und dann weiterziehen. Überqueren Sie nicht, dass "Freundin"-Linie – ich habe Sie gewarnt! Langfristige Beziehungen sind harte Arbeit, wie...

Seven months and twenty-three agreeably ill-assorted vessels are what were required to transport Gavin Young, by slow boat, from Piraeus to Canton. His odyssey teemed with excitement, adventure and colour. Gavin Young's account memorably distils the people, places, smells, conversations, ships and history...

Koreans indeed think that the symbolic animal of Korea is the tiger. As there is a saying that goes, you look alike when you live together, Koreans have lived with tigers for a long time to congest the spirit of tigers ourselves. We have learned the "quickly" habit from their brave and swift...

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