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Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
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
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
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: Travel Narrative
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
MY SECRET HISTORY: A NOVEL by THEROUX PAUL
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
'Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for "My Secret History" ...Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's "Inferno" ...He is a crea ...Show more
Mother Land by Paul Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
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: Travel Narrative | 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
On the Plain of Snakes - A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty- ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
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Category: General
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. Enemies since childhood, the small town of Littleford just isn't big enough to hold them both. S ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
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
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
This is a compendium of travel writing from a master traveller Paul Theroux who celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, "The Tao of Tr ...Show more
Under the Wave at Waimea by Paul Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime. The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still call him the Shark, but his sponsors are looking elsewhere. When Joe accidentally hits and kills a man near Waimea while driving home from a bar after a night of ...Show more
Under the Wave at Waimea by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"Theroux's work is like no one else's." -Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review 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. Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Jo ...Show more
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