Books

  • Editor, Contemporary Laos: Studies in the politics and society of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. 1982. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press and New York: St Martin’s Press. 367pp. [out of print]
    Available from Abebooks

  • The Murderous Revolution: Life and death in Pol Pot’s Kampuchea. 1985, Sydney: Alternative Publishing Cooperative. 203pp {Bangkok edition 1986, White Orchid Press; updated edition Bangkok 1998, Orchid Press}[with Bunheang Ung]

  • The Twilight Language: Explorations in Buddhist symbolism and meditation [with Rod Bucknell]. 1986, London: Curzon Press and New York: St Martin’s Press. 233pp. {1987, Italian translation: Rome: Ubaldini Editore} {1994, paperback edition: London: Curzon Press}
    Available from Abebooks

  • Laos: Politics, economics and society. 1986, London: Frances Pinter Publishers and Boulder, Co: Lynn Reinner Publishers. 220pp.
    Available from Abebooks

  • Vietnam in Laos: Hanoi’s model for Kampuchea. 1987, Claremont: Keck Center for International Strategic Studies. 52pp. [out of print]
    Available from Google books
  • Historical Dictionary of Laos [1st ed with Mary Kooyman].1992, Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. 258 pp.; 2nd ed. 2001, Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press. 527 pp.; 3rd ed. 2008, Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press. 485 pp.; 4th edition, with Simon Creak and Martin Rathie, 2023, Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 692 pp.]
    Available from Rowman & Littlefield

  • Buddhist Kingdom Marxist State: The Making of Modern Laos. [ 1st ed 1996, Bangkok: White Lotus Press. 310 pp. ; 2nd ed. 2002, Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 419 pp,] 
    Available from White Lotus and  Amazon

  • A History of Laos. 1997, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 253 pp. {Updated Japanese and Thai translations 2010}. 
    Available from CUP and Amazon

  • The Lao Kingdom of Lan Xang: Rise and Decline. 1998, Bangkok, White Lotus Press. 200 pp. 
    Available from White Lotus and Amazon

  • A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence, 2003, Crows Nest, NSW, Allen and Unwin.278 pp. 
    Available from Amazon

  • Naga Cities of the Mekong:A guide to the temples, legends and history of Laos. 2006, Singapore: Media Masters. 128 pp. Available from Amazon

  • Festivals of Laos. Chiang Mai; Silkworm Press, 2010 (with Somsanouk Mixay and Steve Northup), 92 pp. 
    Available from Silkworm Books

  • The A to Z of Laos, 2010 Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 485 pp. 
    Available from Amazon

  • Desley Goldston, ed. Engaging Asia: Essays on Laos and beyond in Honour of Martin Stuart-Fox, Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2019. [Afterword pp, 439-465.] 
    Available from Amazon

  • Rod Bucknell, Reconstructing Early Buddhism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. [Postscript pp 265-268.] Available from Cambridge University Press