An interview with me about the cover design from the website of the book’s cover designer Xavier Comas, at CoverKitchen.com.

Bangkok: A virtual Tour Through Film, Food, Music and Books. By Philip Cornwel-Smith. Explore the dynamism and contradictions of one of Asia’s most beguiling cities through its culture, novels and cuisine

Answers can be found in in farang Thai expert Philip Cornwel-Smith’s new book “Very Bangkok,” something between a tourist guidebook and an anthropological encyclopedia. Like a hexagonal mirror, “Very Bangkok: In the City of the Senses” invites readers to not only feel the city with the basic senses such as touch, taste, or smell – but also the phenomena he deemed unique to Bangkok such as the city’s erratic flow of movement.