“A Victorian writer jailed in Thailand for maligning the royal family in his self-published novel has denied he included the offending passage as a publicity stunt to win literary fame. Harry Nicolaides was released from prison last Friday after receiving a royal pardon and arrived back in Melbourne at the weekend. A former colleague of Nicolaides, Heath Dollar, has accused the author of including a passage in his novel, Verisimilitude, knowing it would violate Thai law.”