KPIS in Bangkok is one of the emerging schools on the scene of quality international education in Thailand and thus acknowledge the importance of connecting our body of students to the world around them. To do so, we decided to organize an interactive student-author meeting between Bangkok-based British author, Aaron Le Boutillier, author of...
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Motto: “Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” (Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince) Back cover blurb: The Lesters are living a quiet life in their beautiful house on the top of a hill. Although their parents are always busy,...
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Everybody (publishers and literary agents) say that collections of short stories just don’t sell, but everybody seems to enjoy reading short fiction. I’m an avid reader of short stories and have reviewed on this blog quite a few. Bangkok Knights (or BK!) is one of the very first collections of short stories about Thailand...
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After having read and reviewed Larry Welch’s The Human Spirit – Stories from the Heart (2009), the author was kind enough to offer for my reading pleasure his two other books: Mary Virginia: A Father’s Story (2002) and Quotations for Positive People, And Those Who Would Like To Be (2007). All three books...
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1. The Little Bell Takezo and Matahachi, two foot soldiers who fought on the losing side at the Battle of Sekigahara, find refuge and a place to heal their wounds in the house of the mysterious Akemi, and her mother, Oko. 2. The Comb Musashi receives from Oko a wooden sword which he uses to kill Tsujikaze...
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Jim Newport is a writer, film production designer and musician who has been dividing his time between Thailand and the US since 1991 . Born in New York, Jim now spends most of his time in Phuket and is best known in Thailand for his vampire trilogy: The Vampire of Siam (2004), Ramonne –...
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Ashikaga shogunate - a Japanese feudal military regime hakama – loose trousers, a type of traditional Japanese clothing honor – “To the samurai of this age, the most important thing in the world was honor. As a class, they virtually competed with each other to see who would be the first to die for it. The...
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Catherine Lim is a Singaporean contemporary writer who has dedicated her life to the world of literature. Her second collection of short stories, Or Else, the Lightning God & Other Stories was first published in 1980. Since then it has been reprinted twelve times, the last time by Heinemann Asia in 2002, a fact...
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Sekigahara – the place of the battle in which, in 1600, Ieyasu defeated the combined armies of the western daimyo for control of Japan Mount Ibuki – mountainous area located in the vicinity of Sekigahara Mount Fuwa – mountainous area located in the vicinity of Sekigahara Fuwa – a village controlled by Tsujikaze Temma’s gang of freebooters ...
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Vampire literature is back in everyone’s focus. As a matter of fact, it seems that bookstores have their bookshelves crammed with vampire adventures, both for young adult readers and the adult readership. This, however, has nothing to do with Jim Newport, who finished his Vampire of Siam trilogy in 2006. Comprised of The Vampire...
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