{"title":"Books by Paul Theroux","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780241969359","title":"Deep South","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to America, exploring the landscapes and communities of his homeland as an outsider for the first time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eDeep South\u003c\/i\u003e he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTravelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, Paul Theroux writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers - the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi - and above all, the lives of the people he meets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe South is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is the ruined grandeur of numberless ghostly towns, long abandoned by the industries that built them. There are the state gun shows and the close-knit,subtly forlorn tribe of people who attend and run them. Deep in the heart of his native country, Theroux discovers a land more profoundly foreign than anything he has previously experienced.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201664319666,"sku":"9780241969359","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241969359_ab95206b-06ac-4e4b-bb6a-23ad94dc04e1.jpg?v=1786012654"},{"product_id":"9780241977521","title":"On the Plain of Snakes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNogales 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 and the deportees who have been caught and brought back. And it is here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled heart of modern Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving through the deserts just south of the Arizona border, Theroux finds a place brimming with charm, yet visibly marked by both the US border patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. Attending local language and culinary schools, driving through the country and meeting its people, Paul Theroux gets under the skin of Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the writer praised for his 'curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms' (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eOn The Plain of Snakes\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent and mesmerising exploration of a region in conflict.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Paul Theroux:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'As cool as Maugham... as observant, intuitive, wry, inventive and eloquent as Graham Greene' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The world's most perceptive travel writer' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most accomplished and worldly-wise writers of his generation' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201668481202,"sku":"9780241977521","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241977521_ce3a5ad8-16a0-4a57-977d-5fcaa3126165.jpg?v=1786012802"},{"product_id":"9780241995563","title":"The Bad Angel Brothers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnemies since childhood, the small town of Littleford just isn't big enough to hold them both. So, Cal strikes out for the world's wild places - a gifted geologist in search of gold and other precious minerals - leaving Frank to develop a successful career as the town's lawyer, fixer and local hero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when Cal, newly rich and newlywed, returns to the town of his birth, Frank gives him the opposite of a brotherly welcome, leading to a series of betrayals and reprisals culminating in the ultimate plan: murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA riveting tale of adventure, betrayal and the true cost of family bonds, \u003ci\u003eThe Bad Angel Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable novel from one of American's most distinctive writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Laden with jealousy, betrayal and a mythic lust for vengeance' \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most accomplished and worldly-wise writers of his generation' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201680539826,"sku":"9780241995563","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241995563_a1e6f309-1079-41f1-b26a-a7ab4d64f3b4.jpg?v=1786012346"},{"product_id":"9780241504468","title":"Under the Wave at Waimea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom renowned writer Paul Theroux comes a dazzling novel following a big-wave surfer in Hawaii as he confronts ageing, privilege and mortality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'It was as if in surfing he was carving his name in water, invisibly, joyously.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoe Sharkey knows he is passed his prime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow in his sixties, the younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still revere him as the once-legendary 'Shark', but his sponsors have moved on, and Joe wonders what new future awaits him on the horizon. Uninterrupted quality time with the ocean, he hopes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife has other plans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he accidentally hits and kills a man near Waimea while drunk-driving, he fears he will never rebound. Under the direction of his stubbornly loyal girlfriend Olive, he throws himself into uncovering his victim's story. But what they find in Max Mulgrave is entirely unexpected: a shared history - and refuge in the sea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet on the stunning Hawaiian coast, Theroux captures the glory and nostalgia of looking back at a rich and adventurous past, whilst learning to ride out life's next unexpected wave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[Paul Theroux's] writing skills are disciplined and muscular, his ear as finely tuned as a musician's, his eye sharper than any razor' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43206036029618,"sku":"9780241504468","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241504468.jpg?v=1786012873"},{"product_id":"9780140071818","title":"The Kingdom by the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the '80s in \u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain\u003c\/i\u003e.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Theroux's round-Britain travelogue is funny, perceptive and 'best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure...'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter eleven years living 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, the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result makes superbly vivid and engaging reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A sharp and funny descriptive writer. One of his golden talents, perhaps because he is American and therefore classless in British eyes, is the ability to chat up and get on with all sorts and conditions of British. . . Theroux is a good companion' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Filled with history, insights, landscape, epiphanies, meditations, celebrations and laments' \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Few of us have seen the entirety of the coast and I for one am grateful to Mr Theroux for making my journey unnecessary. He describes it all brilliantly and honestly' Anthony Burgess, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his other non-fiction titles, \u003ci\u003eRiding the Iron Rooster\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Happy Isles of Oceania\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunrise with Seamonsters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tao of Travel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGhost Train to the Eastern Star\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Patagonian Express\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Railway Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDark Star Safari\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFresh-air Fiend\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSir Vidia's Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pillars of Hercules\u003c\/i\u003e, and his novels and collections of short stories, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner\u003ci\u003e The Mosquito Coast\u003c\/i\u003e are available from Penguin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399046299826,"sku":"9780140071818","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140071818_2633e1e8-ed2a-4136-8c47-1aba0c162234.jpg?v=1786011793"},{"product_id":"9780140245332","title":"The Pillars of Hercules","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other – but taking the long way round. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis grand tour of the Mediterranean begins in Gibraltar and takes him through Spain, the French Riviera, Italy, Greece, Istanbul and beyond. He travels by any means necessary - including dilapidated taxi, smoke-filled bus, bicycle and even a cruise-liner. And he encounters bullfights, bazaars and British tourists, discovers pockets of humanity in war-torn Slovenia and Croatia, is astounded by the urban developments on the Costa del Sol and marvels at the ancient wonders of Delphi. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold with Theroux's inimitable wit and style, this lively and eventful tour evokes the essence of Mediterranean life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399109410994,"sku":"9780140245332","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140245332_8ccde660-e3c5-4b26-ac4f-caf399c1c037.jpg?v=1786011096"},{"product_id":"9780141189154","title":"The Old Patagonian Express","description":"\u003cp\u003eSetting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's \u003ci\u003eThe Old Patagonian Express \u003c\/i\u003eis a travel writing tour de force from one of the masters of the genre contains a new preface by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The journey, not the arrival, matters'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Old Patagonian Express\u003c\/i\u003etells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encountered - thrown in with the tedious, and unavoidable, Mr Thornberry in Limón and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires. Witty, sharply observed and beautifully written, this is a richly evocative account of travelling to 'the end of the line'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Edward Theroux (b. 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, born in Medford, Massachusetts. Among his best known works of travel-writing are \u003ci\u003eThe Great Railway Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), \u003ci\u003eThe Old Patagonian Express \u003c\/i\u003e(1979), and \u003ci\u003eRiding the Iron Rooster \u003c\/i\u003e(1985). Theroux has published numerous works of fiction, some of which have been adapted into films, including \u003ci\u003eThe Mosquito Coast\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), a 1986 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. 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' George OrwellEric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma. Nineteen years old, unusually tall, a diffident loner fresh from Eton, after five years spent in the narrow colonial world of the Raj – a decaying system steeped in overt racism and petty class-conflict – he would emerge as the George Orwell we know.   Drawing on all his powers of observation and imagination, Paul Theroux brings Orwell's Burma years to radiant life, tracing the development of the young man's consciousness as he confronts the social, racial and class politics and the reality of Burma beyond. Through one writer, we come to understand another - and see how what Orwell called 'five boring years within the sound of bugles' were in fact the years that made him.   One of John Irving’s best books of the 21st century‘Thoroughly enjoyable . . . [Theroux’s] approach is like that of a skilful, subtle barrister who patiently lays out his evidence, gradually ensnaring the reader’ Times Literary Supplement'Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales' Sunday Times'The most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation' Jonathan Raban","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926428275061,"sku":"9780241998953","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241998953_a56e7e7c-05f5-492e-a40f-57f59ece61c9.jpg?v=1786012418"},{"product_id":"9780241567753","title":"The Vanishing Point","description":"From the bestselling novelist, travel writer, and “master of the short story” (NPR) comes a brilliant new collection.   The stories in The Vanishing Point are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life’s vanishing points—a moment when seemingly all lines running through one’s life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form.   ‘The most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation’ Jonathan Raban‘The most exciting contemporary practitioner of a literary tradition honed to elegantly crafted terseness by Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. 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Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Stunning. . . exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful' Victoria Glendinning, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror' Christopher Wordsworth, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony Burgess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, \u003ci\u003eMy Other Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e My Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lower River\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Dead Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMillroy the Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Elephanta Suite\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSaint Jack\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Consul's File\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Family Arsenal\u003c\/i\u003e, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic \u003ci\u003eThe Great Railway Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e are available from Penguin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56223998771573,"sku":"9780140060898","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140060898_e48c8be6-4056-49f4-8e84-617575c4fdf2.jpg?v=1786011788"},{"product_id":"9780140281118","title":"Dark Star Safari","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark Star Safari\u003c\/i\u003e is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eTravelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous.  It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery -- of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and places he knew as a young and optimistic teacher forty years before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSafari in Swahili simply means \"journey\", and this is the ultimate safari.  It is Theroux in his element -- a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival times are an irrelevance, and where contentment can be found balancing on the top of a truck in the middle of nowhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Paul Theroux:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged'  \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One needs energy to keep up with the extraordinary, productive restlessness of Paul Theroux ... [He is] the most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation'  Jonathan Raban\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales, he writes lean prose that lopes along at a compelling pace'  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Theroux's books include \u003ci\u003eDark Star Safari\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGhost Train to the Eastern Star\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRiding the Iron Rooster\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Railway Bazaar,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Elephanta Suite\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Dead Hand, The Tao of Travel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lower River\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Mosquito Coast\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDr Slaughter\u003c\/i\u003e have both been made into successful films. 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His account of the journey - The Great Railway Bazaar - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India and Asia to discover the changes that have swept the continents, and also to learn what an old man will make of a young man's journey. \u003ci\u003eGhost Train to the Eastern Star\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant chronicle of change and an exploration of how travel is 'the saddest of pleasures'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A dazzler, giving us the highs and lows of his journey and tenderness and acerbic humour . . . fellow-travelling weirdoes, amateur taxi drivers, bar-girls and long-suffering locals are brought vividly to life' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fans of Theroux are not likely to be disappointed. 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