This is a bumper collection of all 33 short stories from the books Mango and Sticky Rice, Mist on the Jungle and Sweet Song of the Siren. Stretching to a massive 536 pages, this book is the ideal gift for short story fans, particularly those who look for something a little different from their reading matter. In this bumper omnibus you will find, among many other characters: a photographer hired to witness a murder, a colour-blind sperm donor, a ghost who misses his friends, a Canadian who pretends he's from Latvia, a woman sure her children's will be the last human generation, a lascivious...

Dans sa troisieme serie de nouvelles, William Peskett, qui est base en Thailande, nous presente un assassin qui se voit taille dans la pierre, un ecrivain que son epouse defunte rejoint en remontant le temps, une communaute de robots qui attend leur sauveteur, un homme amoureux d'une part de lui-meme, une vieille dame entement enlisee dans sa demence senile et une bande de singes blagueurs. Humour et nostalgie, suspense et la beatitude, vous trouverez tout cela dans cette serie, parfois dans la meme histoire. La plupart se passent en Thailande et jettent un regard penetrant dans la mosaique...

This is a radio comedy script in ten episodes of around 15 minutes each. Deals in Space is an adaptation of William Peskett's novel, Enhance Your Exports Doing Business on Other Planets. The story follows Dave Smart, business studies lecturer, as he leads three enytrepreneurs on a tour of discovery to the Smiling Disc star system, 19 light years from home. Their purpose is to investigate business practice on Kalista-mm, the larger of the system's two planets. Visits to a sulphur mine, an old-established bank and a drinks company give the Earthlings surprising insights into the business...

Un homme d'affaires concupiscent qui prefere la chose avec de faux garcons plutot qu'avec de vraies filles, un capitaine en deprime qui va saborder son propre ferry, une femme qui mange plus que de la nourriture, et une veuve thailandaise qui se trouve des racines en Crete -voila quelques-uns des personnages attirants qui apparaissent dans cette collection originale de nouvelles. Souvent amusants, parfois droles, a l'occasion dramatiques, ces contes sont toujours touchants. D'une plume legere, William Peskett, avec sensibilite, verve et sympathie, met en scene une grande variete de...

Un photographe embauche pour filmer un meurtre, un daltonien donneur de sperme, un fantome qui ne peut se passer de ses copains, un Canadien qui se dit Letton et une femme qui a la certitude que ses enfants seront la derniere generation sur terre, tels sont quelques-uns des personnages fascinants de ce recueil. Souvent amusants, parfois comiques, un peu tristes a l'occasion, ces contes font toujours mouche. William Peskett ecrit d'une plume legere, avec tendresse et sympathie envers ses heros, ses anti-heros et leurs mesaventures. La plupart des nouvelles se passent en Thailande ou ont un...

Characters whose tales are told in William Peskett's fourth collection of short stories include a bank teller who suspects murder, an old man who loses his shorts, a butcher reminiscing with his biggest customer and a ladyboy searching for love. Throw in the diary of one of the last two people on Earth, a market-stall tableau and a vision of eternity to appreciate the variety of perspectives that this collection contains. Like the author, most of the stories in this book are based in Thailand and reflect the richness of life and the unusual outlook of the many different people who inhabit...

Dubai is a melting pot where oil, money and glamor are fueling greed and success, envy and challenge. Through tumultuous days, the characters of a human parade plot to achieve their own selfish ends. Their paths will cross, aspirations will clash, dreams will crumble, passions will flourish and pursuits will collide. There is Jon, a candid young engineer; Rashed, the shrewd secret policeman; Malek, the unconventional air force pilot; Mo, the suicide bomber on an Al Qaeda mission; Alaistair, the old oil engineer planning his retirement; Katherina, the flashy socialite; Louis, the womanizing...

Return to the Go-Go is the second volume of insights by Pattaya veteran Khun Pobaan into everyday life in Thailand's extreme city. The first collection, If You Can't Stand the Fun, Stay Out Of The Go-Go, gathered together essays that had been previously published in a local newspaper. As is the way of things, the essays went online and the current crop of 45 pieces have been collected from the monthly blog It Occurs to Me. Subjects tackled by the fearless author include hairless women, toothbrushes, the Thai language, censorship, vasectomies, town planning, squid fishing, road safety,...

The stories in this selection, taken from William Peskett's four collections, Mango and Sticky Rice, Mist on the Jungle, Sweet Song of the Siren and The Day of the Tiger, cover the different ways in which people look at how the world works, for example in the clash between a scientific approach and a traditionalist Buddhist mode of thought. And some deal with the impossible yearnings that can motivate or destroy a person. Sometimes these may be shallow-a lust for drink, for money or for sex-and the characters absurdly comic, self-destructive or psychopathic. Sometimes the yearning may be for...