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A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux takes you on a journey through the streets of Calcutta where all is not as it seems and a smiling face could be harbouring a dark secret in the thrilling novel "A Dead Hand: a Crime in Calcutta". Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. Lounging in Calcutta ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | 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
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Drawing together classic Theroux pieces from the past 14 years, this new collection offers a comprehensive and deeply searching portrait of its acclaimed author - a kind of autobiography through work.Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Wil ...Show more
Millroy the Magician by Paul Theroux
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux tells a bewitching tale of circus magic and hypnotism which seems to hide a more sinister objective in his exquisite novel "Millroy the Magician". Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina walks into the tent at the County Fair and finds her life transformed. Fixing her with her h ...Show more
Mother Land by Paul Theroux
22.99 AUD
Category: 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
Mr Bones: Twenty Stories by Paul Theroux
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mr Bones is a sparkling and darkly humorous collection of short stories by bestselling novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux. 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 piec ...Show more
Mr Bones and Other Stories by Paul Theroux
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip, knowing that it's just a matter of time before she turns on h ...Show more
On The Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
35.00 AUD
Category: Travel | 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
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
Poems for Travellers by Ed. Gaby Morgan, Various
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make per ...Show more