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Prostitution in Thailand - Love in the land of smile.

by Emmanuel Perve & Christopher Robinson.

 

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Love in the Land of Smiles is the most detailed and precise account of Working girls in Thailand to have been written in recent years.

Reading it keeps it plain that the information we have about the sex market in Asia is most of the time inaccurate or distorted by numerous prejudices and miscomprehensions.

In this fascinating work, the authors, who have both been living in Thailand for many years, have contrived to distance themselves from the terms and tone of the customary polemical debate which the media have stirred up around this topic.

Anyway I won't go on any further, read the book yourself at Canterbury Tales Bookshop Pattaya, you decide for yourself?

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Dead Sleep by Greg Iles.

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An intricate and highly emotionally resonant story from one of the most versatile thriller writers of books today.

Jordan Glass, a photojournalist on a well earned holiday, wanders into a Hong Kong art museum and is puzzled to find fellow viewers eying her with curiosity.
Minutes later, she happens upon a gallery containing a single artist exhibition called "The Sleeping Women," a mysterious series of paintings that has caused a sensation in the world of modern art. 
Collectors have come to believe that the canvases depict female nudes not in sleep but in death, and they command millions at auction. 
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London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets

by Peter Ackroyd

 

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London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, buzzzing little study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers and gang hideouts.

The depth below is hot, much warmer than the surface and this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness, real and fictional, rats and eels, monsters, ghosts and much more.

 

Going under London is to penetrate history, to enter a hidden world. "The vastness of the space, a second earth,"

writes Peter Ackroyd, "elicits sensations of wonder and of terror. Go with Peter and Canterbury Tales Bookshop to London

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Clubland by Kevin Sampson.

 

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A hard hitting story of sex and greed from the bestselling author of Outlaws.

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The Pilates Body: The Ultimate At Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening and Toning Your Body, Without Machines by Brooke Siler.

 

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The Pilates method may be today's smartest exercise, but it has been endorsed by physicians for many many years.

Originally developed by Joseph Pilates to help strengthen and condition joints and muscles, Pilates is the ultimate mind/body exercise for anyone who wants to tone up, streamline and realign their body without the bulked up results of more conventional workout methods.

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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, by Jimmy Breslin

 

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It was a huge bestseller when originally published in 1969.

It became a major motion picture that provided Robert De Niro with his first film role.

Its title has entered into the language as a catch phrase.

And it's great fun?

 

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight is the story of Papa Baccala, a Brooklyn Mafia boss, and Kid Sally Palumbo, a wannabe capo who "couldn't run a petrol station at a profit even if he stole the customers' cars".

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The Road to Paradise: How the 1982 Castle Knights Upset Indiana's Football World by Thom Wilder.

 

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Just as the film Hoosiers captured the poignant spirit of Indiana high school basketball, The Road to Paradise tells the story of an unlikely and unexpected football champion, an unproven team without a football pedigree.

 

Considered to be a team that could never seriously contend with the powerhouse schools from northern Indiana, the underdog 1982 Castle Knights of the tiny southern Indiana town of Paradise capped off a magical undefeated season with a championship that the experts in such matters said was impossible.

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Love and Marriage: Mate Selection in Twentieth-Century Central Thailand,

 

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She's Never Coming Back (Kommer aldrig mer igen #1)

by Hans Koppel

 

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When Ylva, a loving mother and wife, fails to come home from work, her husband is not initially suspicious.

But as time passes he becomes frantic with worry and by the time he finally contacts the police, he is almost hysterical. Given the mysterious circumstances of her disappearance, he becomes the number one suspect.

 

But what no one knows is that she's being held hostage in the celler of the house opposite her own.

 

A camera is rigged against her house and Ylva can only watch her family on the screen.

They cannot see her and they most certainly cannot hear her scream..

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Out of My Depth by Anne Darwin,

 

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This is the autobiography of the wife of Britain’s ‘Canoe Man’, who conspired with her husband to fake his death by drowning and profit well from the life insurance, ultimately hoping to escape their debts and live a life of luxury in Panama.

 

A lot has been made of the fact that she deceived her grown up sons into believing their beloved father was dead, when all the time he was living through the wall, in a secret bed-sit.

 

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Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander #1) by Henning Mankell,

 

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One frozen January early morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out.

When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers an aweful bloodbath.

An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his broken body, both victims of a violence beyond comprehension.

The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue............

 

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The Fallen by Ace Atkins. (2017)

 

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Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson had to admit he admired the bank robbers.

A new bank was hit almost every week, and the robbers rushed in and out with total skill and precision it reminded him of raids he had led back in Afghanistan and Iraq when he was an army ranger.

In fact, it reminded him so much of the techniques in the Ranger Handbook that he couldn’t help wondering if the outlaws were former Rangers themselves.

 

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Sleeping in the Ground (Inspector Banks #24)

by Peter Robinson. (2017)

 

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See why in Sleeping in the Ground, the gripping new novel starring Alan Banks, featuring an opening scene you'll never forget, and a finale you won't see coming.

 

At the doors of a charming country church, an unspeakable act destroys a wedding party.

A huge manhunt ensues.

The culprit is captured.

The story is over?

Or is it?

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The Water Kingdom; A secret History of China by Philip Ball.

 

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From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for many a century.

Water has been so integral to China’s rich culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history.

In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball opens that window to offer an epic and powerful new way of thinking about Chinese civilization.

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Deadfall by Linda Fairstein.

 

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Hunting a killer within New York's urban Jungle becomes the biggest case of Alexandra Cooper's career, author Linda Fairstein's 2017 thriller.

 

Amid concrete and skyscrapers, the Wildlife Conservation Society works to preserve and protect the animal kingdom both within and beyond the borders of the five boroughs.

But dangerous creatures don't always have claws and fangs, as Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace know all too well.

 

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World Gone By by Dennis Lehane.

 

Author of Shutter Island and The Given Day.

 

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Dennis Lehane, returns with a psychologically and morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost of his criminal past and present.....

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'Tis A Memoir by Frank McCourt.

The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes

 

October 1949, upon his arrival in America, though he was born in New York, the family had returned to Ireland due to poor prospects in the United States.

Now returned to American soil, this awkward 19 year old, with his spotty face, sore eyes, and dodgy teeth, has little in common with the healthy, self assured college students he sees on the subway and dreams of joining in the classroom.

 

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The Professional by Ashok Ferrey.

 

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Ashok Ferrey tells the tale of a simple Sri Lankan trapped in a foreign country with limited prospects and being forced to survive on the scrapes that he could muster from the underbelly of society and similar societal norms that exist.

With his work permit being kept in the confounds of the government, Chamath is forced to moonlight as Norton, a Professional.

With his foreign accent, fluent command of a foreign language and an exotic appearance, he soon becomes a favorite of the clients while still overshadowed by the feeling of being an obscure figure in the large face of the often uncompromising often stringent structure called society.

 

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Nagaland. A Journey to India's Forgotten Frontier

by Jonathan Glancey

 

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Nagaland has been fighting a well kept secret, often brutal, war for independence for well over half a century.

Portrayed as either a land of ruthless guerrillas or exotic natives, Nagaland is in fact a complex and divided region, with an incredible history.

The breathtaking Naga hills take us to the offices of Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito, via well meaning colonialists and anthropologists, and one of the most important battles of the Second World War.

Through extensive travels beyond the tourist zone, the voices of Nagas he meets, and his family's links with the region, Jonathan Glancey tell the true story of this forgotten land.

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Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend; by Stephen Davis.

 

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As an artist and persona, Jim Morrison epitomized the 1960's, bridging a burgeoning counterculture and popular culture, while acting out the iconoclastic rage of the era.

Rampant libido, and spectacular flameout of a tumultuous period.

The music he created with The Doors has sold well over 50 million records worldwide, with more than 13 million in the last decade alone, their songs have been embraced by a new generation.

But despite Morrison’s seminal importance, there has not yet been an authoritative biography that does justice to him and his creative legacy. Until now.

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Forgotten Voices of the Great War, by Max Arthur,

 

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This unique landmark in history uses first hand accounts from ordinary men and women who were actually there.

Gripping, poignant, surprising as well as humorous, the personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics from both sides tell us what it was really like to live through what was supposed to be the war to end all wars.

 

Skilfully assembled by acclaimed historian Max Arthur using the IWM’s remarkable sound archive, Forgotten Voices of the Great War became an instant classic from this renowned Author.

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Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell.

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"When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell."
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