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Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair ...Show more
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
$49.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, he visits some of the most beautiful and dangerous landscapes on earth. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery - of t ...Show more
Dark Star Safari (Popular Penguin) by Paul Theroux
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Popular Penguins
Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari is a journey overland from Cairo to Cape Town. He travels across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, through Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Encompassing some of the most beautiful landscapes o ...Show more
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, and elsewhere - and brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travellin ...Show more
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
This is Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Acclaimed and beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to his own country - America - for the first time in Deep South. For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islan ...Show more
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places by Paul Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux's latest collection of essays leads the reader through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences, as Theroux ap ...Show more
Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Hotel Honolulu- a run-down hotel teeming with life (most of it low), on an island paradise tarnished by greed and lust. Eighty rooms, eighty stories, and one superbly fresh, scathingly witty new novel from a remarkable writer.
Mother Land by Paul Theroux
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman- pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant - endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring ...Show more
Mother Land by Paul Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
A darkly hilarious portrait of one dysfunctional American family and its scheming matriarch Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many ...Show more
On The Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: Mexico
Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers ...Show more
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversi ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
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, which takes fraternal antipathy to a whole new level. Enemies seemingly since childhood, the ...Show more