Bob Andrews: 6 books

It seemed a good idea at the time. The village chosen by Bob Andrews as a refuge from the chaos of Bangkok lay just off the north-south motorway. His partner Pan already ran the village store and noodle shop. Why not expand the business to include an English-style tea shop? But Bob hadn’t done his...

After more than 50 years in journalism, Bob Andrews decided it was time to come clean and disclose the tricks of his often maligned trade. Andrews—author of “Boom Boom Baby”: and “Sticky Rice at the Orchid Café—takes the reader on a tour of his old haunts in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. “It reads like a detective story,” said a writer for Le Monde, Paris.

Being the story of Brian, his Thai girlfriend Boom and their adventures in Thailand and England, told mostly through an exchange of letters between Brian’s doting mother and his loving aunt. Any resemblance to people living or dead is not at all coincidental. “Boom Boom Baby” is a familiar story...

1670, Restoration England. Bawdy, sensual and in the shadow of renewed conflict between King and Parliament. The prospect of a new civil war haunts English life. Royal advisor Samuel Pepys is dispatched by Charles II to negotiate a secret treaty with Louis XIV of France.  

A stooge for the Inquisition in seventeenth-century Florence, Grand Duke Cosimo embarks on his relentless persecution of all knowledge and art, while conspirators work to protect great Renaissance works from destruction.

On the shores of Lake Tanganyika lies the idyllic Serole Lodge, internationally famous for the study of chimpanzees. In the summer of 2016, it plays host to a group of travellers including academics, film stars and Hiram Sidewinder, an infamous game-hunting dentist from Tennessee, with his family....