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A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
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
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
30.00 NZD
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
Mother Land by Paul Theroux
28.00 NZD
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
Mr Bones: Twenty Stories by Paul Theroux
26.00 NZD
Category: General 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
37.00 NZD
Category: General 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
40.00 NZD
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
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary 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
The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
28.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
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 Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
55.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
This fabulous, far-reaching book breathtakingly captures the tumult, ambition, hardship and serenity that mark modern India. Theroux's characters risk venturing far beyond its well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A holidaying middle-aged couple veer heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A button ...Show more
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel
The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey. Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge. The end of the line is the Congo but Theroux discovers that h ...Show more