Andrew Hicks is a retired British corporate lawyer and university professor who was born near Stratford-on-Avon in the English Midlands during the big freeze of 1947. Andrew became famous on the Thai literary scene after the publication in 2004, of his debut novel Thai Girl, a bitter sweet romance that explores the mutual fascination...
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Novels (good and bad) about Thailand abound the many English-language bookstores that litter the Kingdom of Thailand. Many of these novels are written by farang writers who, from various reasons, choose to live and write from and about Thailand. Although most of them will never get rich just from writing, simultaneously having several other...
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In my informal chat with different publishers from Thailand, I’ve heard plenty of times that it is very difficult to publish a successful farang-written book that does not revolve around a bar girl or a convict. Thai Girl by British author Andrew Hicks might well be the one and only exception. The book was...
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