Thailand books

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These 5 books in new condition shipped to you for 1000 Thai Baht - within Thailand.
Unavailable from the bookshop, only via email; [email protected]

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For all your book needs....

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For all your book needs....

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Here are some of the travel guides we have, mostly Thailand but all other parts of Southeast Asia and a fair few from other parts of the World.

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In lately....

[Jeffinak]

Dam, I wish I was browsing around your store right now.

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Gambling for Life by Harry Findlay...

Traded in @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop *-* Book exchange...

IMAGINE what it would be like to turn your back on the nine-to-five drudgery of normal working life and risk everything you've ever had on the fate of a horse race or the outcome of a ball game.
In the gambling fraternity, Harry Findlay has earned legendary status.
He has been skint dozens of times, won over £20 million and spent just as much.
But he will not change.
Fearless and formidable, bullish and bombastic, there is no one in the gambling game who can match Harry's style and seismic impact.
When he first ran a betting slip through his fingers as a 16-year-old, Harry said he had been handed the keys to the Magic Kingdom.
Gambling has taken him all around the globe, enjoying five-star travel and a gourmet indulgence at the world's biggest sporting events.
In his much-awaited book, Harry recounts the mind-boggling tales behind the thousand and million pound multi-sport bets that will make ordinary punters shudder including the day he wagered £2.5 million on a rugby match.
It is a remarkable life story of ups and downs.
Aged 21 years old, he served nearly a year in some of Her Majesty's toughest jails.
Who'd have thought he would go on to own Big Fella Thanks, winner of the Derby at Clonmel and the most famous dog to come out of Ireland and be part owner of the legendary racehorse Denman, who carried his colours to Gold Cup glory. Harry's subsequent controversial disqualification from racing destroyed him, despite the ruling being overturned on appeal. Most fascinating of all, Harry tells how he has survived and continues to work his magic in the gambling world, and still believes in his own special talent to read sports events and to continue to stay one step ahead of the internet companies that flood our minds with the temptation to risk so much.
Harry Findlay: Gambling For Life reflects one man's extraordinary passion for gambling.
How he cannot live without it.
And how he knows that, even if he loses all of his money, he can never be a loser.

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Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders

by Dick Lehr & Mitchell Zuckoff 

A riveting investigation of the brutal murders of two Dartmouth professors –– a book that, like In Cold Blood, reveals the chilling reality behind a murder that captivated the nation.

On a cold night in January 2001, the idyllic community of Dartmouth College was shattered by the discovery that two of its most beloved professors had been hacked to death in their own home. Investigators searched helplessly for clues linking the victims, Half and Susanne Zantop, to their murderer or murderers. A few weeks later, across the river, in the town of Chelsea, Vermont, police cars were spotted in front of the house of high school senior Robert Tulloch. The police had come to question Tulloch and his best friend, Jim Parker. Soon , the town discovered the incomprehensible reality that Tulloch and Parker, two of Chelsea's brightest and most popular sons, were now fugitives, wanted for the murders of Half and Susanne Zantop.

Authors Mitchell Zuckoff and Dick Lehr provide a vivid explication of a murder that captivated the nation, as well as dramatic revelations about the forces that turned two popular teenagers into killers. Judgement Ridge conveys a deep appreciation for the lives (and the devastating loss) of Half and Susanne Zantop, while also providing a clear portrait of the killers, their families, and their community –and, perhaps, a warning to any parent about what evil may lurk in the hearts of boys.

 

https://www.dicklehr.com/

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The Good Listener: Helen Bamber, A Life Against Cruelty

by Neil Belton

 A magisterial achievement: part biography, part history, part moral meditation on the resurrection of torture as an instrument of political power in the twentieth century, The Good Listener tells the story of Helen Bamber, a good but complex woman now in her seventies, who has spent her life battling to bring the dark side of history into the light.

In almost every situation in our century where mankind has demonstrated its capacity to intensify evil--during the Nazi Holocaust, in Algeria, Chile, Africa, the USSR, and Israel, as well as in postwar Britain and Germany--Bamber has served as a witness, an expert, or a reproach, as well as a repository of our collective memory of debasement. Her father, a Polish Jew, had been so obsessed by the Fascist threat that he would read to Helen from Goebbels' speeches, teaching her how corrupting and manipulative language can be. She went to Bergen-Belsen after World War II had ended, and upon her return to London she dedicated herself to caring for the young survivors of the camp.

So began Bamber's brave devotion to the grim and dangerous task of undoing the work of the torturer--culminating, after her participation as a central force in Amnesty International, in her establishment in England of the Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Because Bamber's uncanny openness to others has been one of her great skills, The Good Listener is rendered even more powerful by the stories of the people she has helped, stories that become unforgettable records of meaningless human suffering. Written with preternatural sensitivity, The Good Listener is a remarkable and important book.

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God's Callgirl

by Carla van Raay

 At the age of 18, Carla van Raay entered a convent to devote her life to God. By 35 she was earning her living as a prostitute. As a child, Carla van Raay experienced a trauma that changed her forever. Burdened by the weight of this terrible secret, all she wanted to do was survive. Life as a nun promised refuge from the outside world. Carla hoped to find love and understanding within the convent walls. Instead she became enmeshed in a complex system of regulations that drove her to the brink of madness. Finally released from her vows, she escaped back into the 'real' world. A hasty marriage and separation left Carla with a daughter to support. With few professional skills to rely on from her years as a nun, she turned to another ageâ old profession â prostitution. She worked as an escort to learn the ropes, then struck out on her own, setting up a massage service. God's Callgirl was born. When eventually the seamier side of the business began to assert itself, Carla embarked on a journey to uncover the dark secret of her past. A true story of religion, abuse, prostitution & recovery. 

[kansuwan]

For those interested in Thai modern history:

E Bruce Reynolds, Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II

Cambridge University Press, paperback & on-line.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/thailands-secret-war/AEB8C20FC4B6E2A3BEDA673A96227F47

https://www.amazon.com/Thailands-Secret-War-Underground-Cambridge/dp/0521143373  for THB 

Amazon blurb:

Despite its 1941 alliance with Japan, Thai leaders managed to establish clandestine relations with China, Britain and the United States, each of which had ambitions for postwar influence in Bangkok. Based largely on recently declassified intelligence records, this narrative history thoroughly explores these relations, details Allied secret operations and sheds new light on the intense rivalry between the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

 

 

[ShaolinDrunkard]

 

Great.

I was wondering is there english bookstore in Pattaya

 

 

I opened topic about fiction literature on Thai girls

 

[ShaolinDrunkard]

Ps. These Bangkok Hilton the stories are scary.

Also, there is a book and great film adaptation of the prison experience in Thailand: A Prayer Before Dawn: My Nightmare in Thailand's Prisons

[Daveo]

7 hours ago, ShaolinDrunkard said:

 

Great.

I was wondering is there english bookstore in Pattaya

 

 

I opened topic about fiction literature on Thai girls

 

 

We have a huge selection of books on most genres, click the link below for location.

https://g.page/CanterburyTalesGuesthouseBooksho?share

Edited November 8, 2020 by Daveo

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All sorts - many languages - We ship all over Thailand - 

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Pink Samurai: The Pursuit and Politics of Sex in Japan by Nicholas Bornoff 

An erotic exploration of Japanese society.

WE SHIP ANYWHERE IN THAILAND..

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3

(The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire #1)

by Edward Gibbon,
 

Hugh R. Trevor-Roper (Introduction)

 

Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical scholarship and remains a remarkable fresh and powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history more than two hundred years after its first appearance. Its fame, however, rests more on the exceptional clarity, scope and force of its argument, and the brilliance of its style, which is still a delight to read. Furthermore, both argument and style embody the Enlightenment values of rationality, lucidity and order to which Gibbon so passionately subscribed and to which his HISTORY is such a magnificent monument. 

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The Big Tiger Prison - The Big Truth from Banckwang Confinement Area, Bangkok Hilton..

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The Bourne Retribution

(Jason Bourne #11)

by Eric Van Lustbader,

Robert Ludlum (Series Creator)