In stock now......The Good the Bad and the Other about Pattaya and the girls...shipped to your door anywhere in Pattaya for 300 baht and trade it back when finished with it for 50% credit off your next book..
We will ship books all over Thailand, shipping is about 15 baht per standard paperback to a little more for larger books but often 10 books can be as little as 100 baht shipping. Send us your book list and ask for a quote?
Det heter klong prem men kallas ' Bangkok Hilton', det beryktade fangelset i Bangkok, dar 12000 fangar, bland dem 600 utlanningar, ruttnar bort i fortvivlan och glomska. Det heter Klong Prem men kallas 'Bangkok Hilton', det beryktade fängelset i Bangkok, där 12,000 fångar, bland dem 600 utlänningar, ruttnar bort i förtvivlan och glömska. En enda av dem har lyckats fly, drogsmugglaren David McMillan från Australien. Detta är den sanna berättelsen om hans flykt från ett fängelse som alla ansåg omöjligt att fly från. Här berättar han om hur det gick till och hur livet i ett thailändskt fängelse gestaltar sig för västländska fångar. Det är ett liv så nära helvetet på jorden man kan komma och där många hälsar döden som en befrielse. Två veckor före en nästan säker dödsdom lyckades McMillan fly för att aldrig mer återvända till..
Books from 60 baht each plus a 50% trade in for credit when finished with them.
Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand by Peter A Jackson.. A landmark study of male homoeroticism in Southeast Asia. "Uncle Go Pak-nam" has been Thailand's advice columnist for gay men in a major national magazine since 1974. Letters to him come from the confused, lovelorn, naive, worldly and lonely. Their sexually explicit stores are often moving, sometimes shocking, sometimes delightful, but always fascinating and deeply human. Uncle Go's advice to them is wild, witty, and wise. These engaging letters, plus Uncle Go's responses, provide the basis for Dr. Jackson's ingenious and insightful analyses and commentaries into male-to-male relationships in what may be one of the world's few non-homophobic societies. This landmark book is a fully revised and expanded version of Male Homosexuality in Thailand: An Interpretation of Contemporary Thai Sources (New York: 1989) Although this book is an academic study, lay people will find it readable and compelling.
Short stories from Canterbury Tales, Pattaya. Shipping available.
LE FOU AU PARADIS (THE FRENCH EDITION OF FOOL IN PARADISE) by NEIL HUTCHISON....and many French books
Travel Guides Thailand - Southeast Asia and beyond. (Google maps) Canterbury tales bookshop - soi Bongkot 6, Pattaya.
Acknowledged as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand, “A Woman of Bangkok” was first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950's and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. Set in 1950's Thailand, this is the story of an Englishman’s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai. No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one of the most memorable in literature’s long line of brazen working girls
Erotica section at our Pattaya Bookshop - books from 100 baht plus 50% trade back - trade in your unwanted books with us - FREE shipping within Thailand.
BOOKS WANTED - TRADE IN YOUR UNWANTED BOOKS. The Gamekeeper by David Collier available on Amazon & at Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Pattaya. We ship books all over Thailand.
Only 13: The True Story of Lon. by Julia Manzanares - Derek Kent. 180 baht at Canterbury tales bookshop.
Books from 10 baht in our Children section @ (Google maps) Canterbury tales bookshop, Pattaya. Trade in your unwanted books.
WE SHIP BOOKS ALL OVER THAILAND.. Trade in your unwanted books, we have books from 60 baht,
Best Pattaya bookshop/book exchange. The Gamekeeper by David Collier
Having a Pattaya bookshop, I thought I may as well write a book, the book actually much more than something as flippant as that, triggered by something that happened 5 years ago here in Pattaya Thailand. As well as suffering life in a wheelchair for the past 6 years with a muscle wasting illness. Somewhat of a life story from a Country boy from Canterbury, Kent. Living my dream as a gamekeeper, then that years later falling apart and taking up voluntary work with the Samaritans, which led to running the listener scheme in Standford hill and Elmley prison on the isle of Sheppey. Things from there... well you couldn't make that sh*t up...
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by American journalist David Grann.. In the early 1870's, the Osage, a Native American tribe of the Great Plains, were forced by the US government to move out of Kansas as white settlers (including Laura Ingalls Wilder’s family of the Little House on the Prairie) arrived in the region. The Osage moved to Oklahoma where, because they paid for their new lands, they kept the mineral rights. The 1897 Bartlesville gusher put Oklahoma on the oil map and by 1907 the state was the largest US producer of oil, making the Osage “the richest nation in the world per capita”, with each Osage receiving royalties from the oil revenue; in 1923 alone, the tribe earned $30 million – about $400 million today. But this was not to be without dire consequences for them. In 1921 the US Congress passed a law requiring that, because of “incompetence”, each Osage member had a government-appointed paid “guardian” to manage his or her oil income. In the early 1920's a series of mysterious murders, using gunshot and poison, took the lives of dozens of the Osage. The murders were committed so the perpetrator could inherit the deceased’s wealth or life insurance, or to eradicate evidence and witnesses of previous murders. A Tragic Story American journalist David Grann has devoted a whole book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, to this tragic and mysterious piece of history - a far cry from the Wild West of the movies. Although related to oil, the book is primarily a story of human greed, corruption and brutality. The story is not new; as Grann acknowledges in the bibliography at the end of the book, several previous books (novels as well as non-fiction) have chronicled and exposed it. But it is not well known - I did not know about it before reading Grann’s book. It is also a piece of history full of inconvenient truths and important lessons to reflect on. Grann’s writing is fascinating and the reader is given sufficient historical information in a well-written style to follow the murder cases. At its heart lie two families, or rather two people. The first is Mollie Burkhart, whose sisters Minnie, Anna, Rita (together with her husband Bill) and mother Lizzie Que were all murdered; she was poisoned too, but saved. Mollie’s life thus epitomizes the Osage victims. The second person is William Hale, a white cattleman and the self-styled ‘King of the Osage Hills’ who, together with his nephews Ernest Burkhart (Mollie’s husband) and Bryan Burkhart (Anna’s boyfriend), along with several outlaws and henchmen, masterminded some of the murders. Part I of the book (The Marked Woman) chronicles the murder cases, while Part II (The Evidence Man) describes how the Osage Indian murders were the first major homicide project for the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (founded in 1908) under J. Edgar Hoover, although the actual investigations were carried out by Tom White and his undercover agents in Osage County. This part of the book reads like a Sherlock Holmes story - except that it is an actual history, complicated by the corruption and bribery of several local officials. After the highly publicized trial of Hale and his gang, the government passed a law prohibiting white people from inheriting Osage wealth. Part III (The Reporter) narrates Grann’s own exploration of the history, as he traveled to Osage County, interviewed descendants and experts and studied thousands of pages of FBI archives on the story. Flower-Killing Moon Osage is the French version of the tribe’s name and supposedly means warlike. The Osage call themselves “Wa-zha-zhe” which means “the people of middle waters.” Today, they have a population of about 20,000, of whom nearly 7,000 reside in the tribe’s jurisdictional land. In 2000 the Osage sued the US government over its failure to pay tribal members appropriate royalties, settling in 2011 for $380 million. As for the title of the book: “flower-killing moon” is how the Osage refer to May, because in that month taller plants creep over the smaller ones and break their flowers. Anna was murdered in May, 1921. A Hollywood movie based on the book is due in 2019. I cannot wait to watch it and see how it captures this fascinating history.
When Tig Hague kissed goodbye to his girlfriend Lucy, he was already thinking of his return. The couple were going house-hunting, looking for their first home together. Tig was only going to be gone a few days on a routine business trip - the annual highlight of an otherwise unglamorous job working on the Russian desk of a London bank. But just hours later something went wrong at Moscow airport. Very wrong. Misunderstanding a request from customs for a backhander to speed his progress into the country, Tig was pulled to one side to have his bag searched. A deliberate inconvenience, he thought. But Tig's world was about to implode with dizzying, terrifying speed. A tiny lump of hashish, nothing more than detritus from a recent stag weekend, was discovered in the pocket of an old pair of jeans. Too small to warrant anything more than a slapped wrist back home, he hadn't even known it was there. Tig was in Moscow's notorious Piet Centrale jail by nightfall - and that was just a stepping stone on his way to prison camp Zone 22 in the bleak, remote wastes of Mordovia. He wouldn't be returning home for years ...
