Following in the footsteps of bestselling author Cornhole Ruin ( A klong too far ) and Somchai ( Eat , Drink , drink , drink , sleep ), Steve has written a memoir of his flight to the good life in Nakon Nowhere , Thailand. "All my life-long, I dreamed of acquiring a Lau Khow addiction and concrete table set," writes the author, a British actor who starred in an episode of the BBC adaptation of american cable television's "Cops", When He, spotted a country shop with a classic concrete table set outside , he defied common sense and merged with the furniture. Never mind that the shop is moldering and insect-infested, the roof leaks and there doesn't seem to be any running water. Steve's account of paradise regained involves bushwhacking through the intricacies of Thailand country etiquette and battling the elements of nature (wind, rain and fire), to say nothing of the eccentric local population. Alas, the book reads, by turns, like a catalogue of the author's faux pas ("I have a leaking penis!") and a ponderous love poem ("I have facination with the betel stained mouth of old woman tittyporn"). Still, for all its false notes, the book describes life in the arse end of Issan - "lau khow , concrete table sets and yaba'd youths." Many readers will find this idealized portrait of a culture and a way of life most appealing. Steve's book seems poised to attract fans of Ruin , Somchai and others of the expatriates-in-paradise genre.