Paul Theroux

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia....

In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in his classic The Great Railway Bazaar....

The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico....

For the past 50 years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the Earth - to China, Africa, the Pacific Islands, Russia, and elsewhere....

American-born Paul Theroux had lived in England for 11 years when he realized he'd explored dozens of exotic locations without discovering anything about his adopted home....

Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons to intimate personal remembrances....

The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America....

A final African adventure from the writer whose gimlet eye and effortless prose have brought the world to generations of readers....

This fabulous, far-reaching book breathtakingly captures the tumult, ambition, hardship and serenity that mark modern India....

Ellis Hock runs a menswear store in Massachusetts but still dreams of the four years he spent in Malawi....

Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle....

It's 1960s America, and Herbie Gneiss is forced to leave college to get a job....

Spanning almost thirty years, My Other Life traces the journey of a fictional Paul Theroux—from young bachelorhood in Africa to his travels between continents, from in and out of marriage through various affairs and multiple means of employment.

Inaugurating Dove Audio's Modern Classics Collection - an eclectic compendium of the finest short fiction of the last 150 years...

Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hardworking, frugal....

Newly married and having recently taken over the management of a hotel in Honolulu, a former writer is drawn into the lives of his guests and the customs and rhythms of the distant island....

A family watches, horrified, as their patriarch transforms into the wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show....

When Jerry Delfont receives a letter from an American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story....

In Camp Echo, his novella for Scribd Originals, Theroux delivers a compelling coming-of-age story about racism, masculinity, morality, and leadership....

Chosen by John Irving in the New York Times as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century “Paul Theroux has exploited this biographical lacuna with great shrewdness and gusto… his fictional account of Blair’s life there [Burma] is a valid and entirely credible attempt to add flesh to the...