Proglen: 103 books

A True Account of One of the Most Thrilling Periods in Thai History Set toward the end of the seventeenth century, Falcon at the Court of Siam recounts the true story of Constantine Phaulkon, a Greek of low birth who spectacularly rose to fame, and infamy, as King Narai's favourite courtier...

Welcome to the world of humour. What makes human beings laugh can be broadly defined under three headings: someone else's misfortune, someone else's misunderstanding or someone else's stupidity. The keywords here are "someone else's" because, let's face it, most silly things...

Book one of the The Vampire of Siam trilogy. Martin Larue is wealthy beyond measure. A wandering expat who has made Bangkok his sometime home, he attends film festivals all over the globe, dabbles in cinema journalism, and enjoys the finer things in life. But he is jaded and bored - and his...

Evil in the Land Without was Colin Cotterill's second novel published in 2003 by Asia Books. John Jessel is an English Child Protection Unit detective working on paedophile cases in Surrey. He's good at his job but is on a downhill slide as booze slowly takes over his deteriorating body and...

Someone is stalking a local nurse and Jimm is asked to help find the culprit. Instead Jimm uncovers a hot bed of local perversion. Who is the guilty party? Number Ten: Tom Tom is the tenth in a new series of Colin Cotterill short stories featuring his female news reporter and detective, Jimm...

If there is one 'drug' which encapsulates the 'East' for many Westerners it is opium. Mention the word opium and many people begin to conjure an almost romantic world of smoky dives, in which glassy-eyed, somnolent men are wrapped around an elegant pipe. The truth, of course, is somewhat different...

A hilarious romp through a year of expat living in Pattaya, Thailand. Imagine leaving the comfort zone of your home, family and friends to venture into the unknown. Imagine discovering an alien paradise only to realize that here, you are the alien who has to try to fit into your new environment....

Set in Thailand, Revolving Doors is the companion piece of Behind the Folding Fan focusing on Old and New Japan. Across the length and breadth of Japan, New York art gallery co-owner Arden Catlin discovered new facets about his father and his paintings while walking in the footsteps of the...

This is a story of self-discovery and self-actualization. The main character, despite having realized the American Dream, is ill-at-ease in his cosmopolitan milieu. Sensing that something important is missing in his life, he hankers to relive experiences he once had in Asia. He naïvely seeks to renew,...

The Odyssey Trilogy, as its name implies, comprises a long journey full of experiences. The main protagonist, Arden Catlin, an art dealer and co-owner of an Art Gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, spends extended quality time in Japan (three weeks), Thailand (two weeks) and France (three...

From the author of Bhutanese Tales of the Yeti another dip into the library of the storytellers from the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.Folktales of Bhutan is a collection of thirty-eight folktales and legends and is a first attempt by a Bhutanese to record in English the oral tradition of this...

Jasmine Nights by S. P. Somtow. A Quirky Bangkok Novel by the J. D. Salinger of SiamAt twelve years old, Little Frog has a richly fantastic and sustaining inner life. It is 1963, his parents have disappeared, and he lives with his maiden aunts, known affectionately as the Three Fates, on a...

Boat People is a panoramic novel of greed and compassion, violence and family love, desperation and hope. It is September 1981, the high tide of boat people flight from Vietnam. From the Mekong Delta port of Rach Gia, one boat, crammed with fishermen, farmers, political refugees, and urban hustlers,...

Our Man in Pattaya by Duncan Stearn, the author of Pattaya, Patpong on Steroids.Come for a walk on the wacky side as Pattaya and its locals and foreigners come together in a collection of the best of the popular Our Man in Pattaya monthly columns from the pages of the Pattaya Trader (also published...