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  • Miss Bangkok

    Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute

    by Bua Boonmee ...
    Miss Bangkok is a vivid, powerful and moving memoir of a life spent in prostitution in Thailand. Poor and uneducated, Bua Boonmee escaped an abusive marriage only to end up in the go-go bars of Patpong. There, in the notorious red-light district of Bangkok, she succumbed to prostitution in an effort to support her family.Bua’s story is one of resilience and courage in the face of abuse and poverty ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Welcome to Hell

    One Man's Fight for Life inside the Bangkok Hilton

    by Colin Martin ...
    Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin’s autobiography chronicles an innocent man’s struggle to survive inside one of the world’s most dangerous prisons. After being swindled out of a fortune, Colin was let down by the hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, he accidentally ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Hell in Barbados

    The true story of a man imprisoned in paradise

    by Terry Donaldson ...
    Hell in Barbados is the powerful true story of a drug-addicted smuggler who found his salvation in the unlikeliest of places. Told with disarming honesty, the book propels the reader into the mind of an addict and shows us the depths of degradation one man sunk to before finding the inner strength to save himself.Terry Donaldson met with success early in life but his struggle with addiction soon ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ladyboys

    The Secret World of Thailand's Third Gender

    by Susan Aldous, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol ...
    This extraordinary book is an intimate portrait of Thailand’s ladyboys: the men who have chosen to become women. Funny, passionate, angry and provocative, Ladyboys is a no-holds-barred look at the secret lives of Thailand’s transsexual men. The book offers intimate details of the lives that they’ve never publicly revealed. They talk about the choices they’ve made, their relationships, families, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Angels of Pattaya

    Inside the Secret World of Thai Prostitution

    by GT Gray ...
    Angels of Pattaya offers an insightful collection of interviews with a number of prostitutes working in Thailand. The women are given a rare opportunity to tell their story in their own words.The women reveal how they became involved in the business, their hopes for the future and what they think of their “customers”. Some are from the poorest rural provinces of Thailand, others come from ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Kingdom of Make-Believe

    by Dean Barrett ...
    A New York publisher who once served in Thailand during the Vietnam War receives a plea for help from his late brother's Thai widow. When he returns to Thailand after 20 years he finds that the nostalgic portrait he carried of Thailand Past bears little resemblance to reality, and he begins to uncover deception, danger and death.Scenes in the novel range from Manhattan's Greenwich Village to a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forget You Had a Daughter - Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton

    by Sandra Gregory ...
    Sandra Gregory seemed to have the perfect life in Bangkok - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare. Desperate to get home by any means possible, she agreed to smuggle an addict's personal supply of heroin. She didn't even make it onto the plane.In this remarkably candid memoir, Sandra Gregory tells the full story of the events leading up to her arrest, the ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • A Secret History of the Bangkok Hilton

    by Chavoret Jaruboon, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol ...
    Bang Kwang Prison is one of the most notorious penal institutions in the world. Located seven miles north of Bangkok city in the Nonthaburi Province, the prison is home to over 8,000 inmates, among them ruthless killers, rapists, drug traffickers, conmen and thieves.The Bangkok Hilton is understaffed, overcrowded, and filled with inmates who struggle with insanity as they spend the first months of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Journey To Hell

    Inside the World's Most Violent Prison System

    by Donald MacNeil ...
    Sailing instructor Donald MacNeil was delighted when he was hired to skipper a yacht across the Mediterranean. The pay was good and the work was easy - or so he thought. Then the truth was revealed: he had to sail to South America to collect one of the biggest shipments of cocaine ever bound for the UK. And to the gangsters who hired him, refusal was not an option.There followed a harrowing ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Name and Number: Based On a True Prison Story

    by John Hoskison ...
    Art student Nick Wood risks selling a few Ecstasy tablets at a party to impress friends and ends up with a two year prison sentence. Nick hopes to spend his sentence in an open prison, the type he's read about in the papers. The ones often referred to as 'holiday camps'. Instead, his worst nightmare comes true. Locked up in HMP Blackthorpe, a prison known for its medieval-like squalor, Nick lives ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Damage Done

    by Warren Fellows ...
    In 1978 Warren Fellows, Paul Hayward and William Sinclair were convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Bangkok's notorious Bang Kwang men's prison, the Bangkok Hilton. For Warren Fellows, it was the beginning of twelve years of hell.The Damage Done takes you behind the bars of a Bangkok prison. A place where sewer rats and ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • A Fool in Paradise

    Fool in Paradise, #1

    by Neil Hutchison ...
    Series Book 1 - Fool in Paradise
    Following hot the heels of his best seller, Money Number One, Neil Hutchison continues his in-depth investigation into the tourist playground of Pattaya. This collection of short stories, originally published individually under the pseudonym 'A Fool in Paradise', form a collage of insights into the machinations of this fantastic city on the eastern seaboard of Thailand.Anyone who has read Money ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus