John Cadet: 3 books

The Venusberg of the title story is, of course, Bangkok and environs, its Tannhauser an ex-GI who discovers it’s best not to come back. As in Occidental Adam, Oriental Eve, Cadet’s principal theme is the meeting of two cultures, and in this and the other ten stories, his protagonists are seen...

A majority of these stories is set in Thailand. A shot rings out in a Bangkok slum; not far from Pattaya a portly Thai banker is taken by a shark; a Western  adviser, at the end of his tether, sits at the feet of a meditation teacher in the Thai Northeast; in his Bangkok penthouse an English lecturer...

Document Found in a Prefab Undergoing Demolition in a North-west London Suburb A novel-ms, lost and recovered years later, in the form of an account by a  schoolboy of his final year at grammar school, an attempt by examining the days past to find a key to the future.