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Crime Busters With Zimmer Frames

Phuket Life / Literature

Saturday 23 May 2026 01:00 PM

OK, so I admit to being easily amused, as well as famously pedantic. I enjoy imagining how veteran crime fiction authors must struggle to keep older, best-selling central characters active and virile enough to continue battering baddies when they are of a seniority associated with retirement homes. That it happens a lot might illustrate how frequently authors fail to envisage their central characters still dodging lead and slinging punches forty years after their crime fiction debuts.

So you want to write a book...

Phuket Life / Literature

Sunday 12 April 2026 12:00 PM

They say everyone has a book in them, and to add perspective to the claim, consider this: on Amazon alone, so-called independent authors account for almost four thousand new self-published books every day.

A crime fiction cracker worth sharing

Phuket Life / Literature

Saturday 21 February 2026 01:00 PM

Welcome to the first of my monthly columns on reading and writing books. My fascination for the written word stretches to a bygone century, when in the mid-1960s I made considerable use of local libraries while working my way through every international action/adventure title featuring the famous Captain James Bigglesworth.

Getting to know the man behind the words

Phuket Life / Literature

Saturday 10 January 2026 01:00 PM

Ron McMillan, an author now based in Chiang Mai, started out as a writer and photojournalist amidst the flying rocks and toxic teargas clouds of Seoul in the run-up to the 1988 Olympics. After covering the Seoul Games from opening to closing ceremonies, he shifted base to Hong Kong in time for the final decade of British colonial rule.

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