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Paul Theroux
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes a fascinating, atmospheric novel inspired by George Orwell's years in Burma
'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed…
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Gives an account of the author’s journey by rail through Asia. This work describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met. It…
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As 99 years of colonial rule end and the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China, Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, receive an offer for their family…
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In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. It is a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival time…
Deep South of America is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is…
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Master travel writer Paul Theroux immerses himself in the fascinating, rich and troubled culture of modern Mexico
Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of…
Tells of the author’s journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston’s subway, this work depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of…
From the legendary American master Paul Theroux comes a brilliant new novel of chilling psychological depth, the tale of a younger brother whose lifelong rivalry with his older brother--a powerful…
"Paul Theroux has exploited this biographical lacuna with great shrewdness and gusto... his fictional account of Blair's life there [Burma] is a valid and entirely credible attempt to add flesh…
Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran…
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A taut, tense, darkly suspenseful novel about a man who flees to Africa after his marriage falls apart, only to be caught up in a precarious situation in a seemingly…
From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.
A collection of short memoirs that blur the lines between biography and fiction as award-winning writer imagines what his life would have been like had he made different choices. It…
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At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other taking the long…
From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new novel exploring one of English literature's most beloved and controversial figures--George Orwell--and the…
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Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer’s block. Lounging in Calcutta one day, he receives a mysterious letter. It comes from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger. An Indian…
Explores the shifting stories of those who come to India in search of that elusive something - and of how they react when the country and people they encounter are…
Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists, hoping to win their trust and respect. Mayo, his…
Paul Bowles
Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavoring to escape this predicament, they set off for…
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This book paints the story of a Western artist's discovery of authentic Mexico, encapsulating a journey away from narrow observations of the country's stereotypes- black and white films, cactus', cartels…
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Gaby Morgan
A collection of classic travel poems introduced by novelist and prize-winning travel writer, Paul Theroux.
Joseph Conrad
Foreshadows twenty-first-century concerns about terrorism and international espionage. This book is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to…
Offers the reader insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots.
A collection that ranges from sketches to critical essays. Each piece marks a new ‘confrontation with the world’ and throws new light on the political and social climate of diverse…
Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina walks into the tent at the County Fair and finds her life transformed. When she is later magicked into his trailer and Millroy promised to train her…
A family watches, horrified, as their patriarch transforms into the wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector gleefully destroys his most valuable pieces. A young artist devotes…
The bestselling travel writer and novelist now takes us on a magical tour of the Mediterranean. Theroux’s other bestselling travel books include The Great Railway Bazaar, Riding the Iron Rooster…
Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his business goes belly…
Paul Theroux, one of the world’s most popular authors, both for his travel books and his fiction, has produced an off-beat story of 1960s weirdos unlike anything he has ever…
Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down this remote outpost in the sweltering jungle, he…
Full of encounters and memorable scenes, fascinating and sometimes bizarre locations, and enlightening musings on themes as various as sexual attraction and the point of travel writing itself, this is…
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in the best-selling and hugely acclaimed The Great Railway Bazaar. From the Eurostar…
A visionary photographer looks back on her life working with real-life luminaries, among them Hemingway, Picasso, Patton, and Frost, in a psychologically intense novel from a best-selling author.
No one but Paul Theroux could write this romp of a book, with its acutely drawn characters and canny insights into a place that is often viewed as a simple…
Brilliantly written and erotically charged, My Secret History is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world traveler, a lover of every kind of woman he chances to meet…
A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America’s most distinctive writers
There’s sibling rivalry and then there’s the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger…
The travel writer shares his essays on a host of his favorite destinations, including Hong Kong, Maine, Africa, and the Pacific islands.
Writing with a deep understanding of the frailties of men and boys, Theroux fills his latest novel with his typically effortless but devastating descriptions of people and places, presenting a…
A washed-up writer sets out for Ecuador’s jungle in search of a rare hallucinogen. Traveling amid a gaggle of thrill-seeking tourists, he finds his drug, which heightens both his powers…
A new novel from the world’s favorite travel writer and best-selling author of the novels The Mosquito Coast and The Elephanta Suite.
A book that chronicles bestselling author’s long friendship with writer from its beginning to untimely end with both funny and moving moments and stark honesty.
This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today’s India. Theroux’s portraits of people and places explode stereotypes to exhilarating effect.
From the legendary American master Paul Theroux comes a brilliant new novel of chilling psychological depth, the tale of a younger brother whose lifelong rivalry with his older brother–a powerful…
One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked.
