Published in 1929, the work of an aristocrat who killed himself two years later at age 26, this pioneer Thai novel provides unusual glimpses of the Western world and Asia between the wars.

The first novel on prostitution in Thailand in the 1930s – a scandal in its time – written by a young woman who became one of the great names of Thai romance.

This vivid chronicle of an upcountry district in the heart of Siam, an epic social fresco and ode to human endeavour and wilfulness, will take you through a wide sweep of emotions.

All guilty. This epoch-making novel, set in the rural central Thailand of the 1980s, is a scathing satire and chilling endictment of modern society. Winner of the 1982 SEA Write Award.

Black magic + folk credulity = money + fame + greed. After Snakes, the second part of the celebrated Khoak Phranang quartet.

Who killed the old imam, and why? The novel every Thai, everyone concerned with the situation in Thailand’s deep South, should read.

Deep into the jungle, a young hunter goes after a barking deer only to be stalked by a tiger. A powerful novel of adventure, introspection and wisdom, as well as a parable on revolutionary commitment.

Sex, guilt and retribution. No porn, but an erotic novel with few equivalents in the world of literature.

Portrait of the artist as a young rascal.
The scandalous 1994 Thai novel hailed as a world-class masterpiece.

As seen through the eyes of his wife, the rise and fall of a military strongman in 1950s and 1960s Thailand that is a probing, ironic and still valid portrait of the Thai elite,