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Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
22.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | 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
Saint Jack by Paul Theroux
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux explores the darker underside of the community of expatriates in South-East Asia in his compelling and strikingly honest novel "Saint Jack". Jack Flowers, saint or sinner, caught a passing bumboat into Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship chandler. ...Show more
Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents by Paul Theroux
27.99 AUD
Category: Travel
"Sir Vidia's Shadow" is a book that chronicles bestselling author Paul Theroux's long friendship with writer V.S Naipaul from its beginning to untimely end with both funny and moving moments and stark honesty. "Both unputdownable and utterly engaging". (Jonathan Raban, "The Times Literary Supplement"). ...Show more
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries 1964-1984 by Paul Theroux
24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Award winning Paul Theroux has written many iconic shorter pieces of travel writing which have been collected together in the captivating "Sunrise with Seamonsters". "Sunrise with Seamonsters" is Paul Theroux's immensely entertaining collection of his shorter writings, ranging from sketches to critical ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
32.99 AUD
Category: 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 sm ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
22.99 AUD
Category: 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. Enemies since childhood, the small town of Littleford just isn't big enough to hold them both. S ...Show more
The Consul's File by Paul Theroux
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux takes us on a journey through small town Malaysia through the eyes of the exuberant Spencer Savage in his breathtaking novel "The Consul's File". Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down t ...Show more
The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux removes the mystery and reveals the real India in his compelling novel "The Elephanta Suite". We in the West think we know India. But, as Paul Theroux reveals, we need to think again..."The Elephanta Suite" brilliantly explores the shifting stories of those who come to ...Show more
The Family Arsenal by Paul Theroux
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The Family Arsenal" is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot...Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists, hoping to ...Show more
The Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
26.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
Return to "The Great Railway Bazaar" in "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" as Paul Theroux experiences the journey that launched his travel writing career for the second time. Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The Gr ...Show more
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia by Paul Theroux
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Great Railway Bazaar" is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the ...Show more
The Kingdom By The Sea by Paul Theroux
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
After eleven years as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to suprise the British into talking about themse ...Show more