2007 books
37) Paul Murphy, Experience Preferred... But Not Required, 2006
An easy collection of fictional first-person portraits with the common theme of Westerners teaching English to Thais in Bangkok (a world I expect I may enter myself in years to come). Once I got past the utterly dreadful cover, the piss-poor typesetting and the absence of the author's name on the cover, this actually turned out to be a good small collection, covering the extremes from the most boringly competent educators to the embarrassing have-a-go failures such as the middle-aged divorcee Brit who mistakenly marries a Bangkok bar girl, a story which despite its completely predictable tramline of events is actually a realistic and sympathetic character study. Unchallenging, but consciously educational.