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A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Blinding Light by Paul Theroux
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Slade Steadman has written one of the most famous travel books ever. But he has been unable to write anything else for thirty years. A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador among the Secoya Indians gives him the experience he has been seeking - and a miracle drug. He returns to the U ...Show more
Blinding Light: A Novel by Paul Theroux
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Slade Steadman is the author of a world-famous travel book, but has struggled to match its success for the past thirty years. A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador gives him the experience he has been seeking and a miracle drug, which induces temporary blindness. On his return to t ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
$31.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Dead Hand - A Crime in Calcutta by THEROUX Paul
$55.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer's block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, h ...Show more
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
$30.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star : On the tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: very good
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in the best-selling and hugely acclaimed The Great Railway Bazaar. From the Eurostar in London, he once again sets out on a journey to the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, India and Asia. Infuse ...Show more
MY OTHER LIFE: A NOVEL by THEROUX PAUL
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The fictional narrator of these memoirs, a man of many different guises, has reconstructed his past, giving it wit and life, tragedy and pathos, and imposed an order on it through careful editing. Life, it seems, has no apparent plot and so it can seem messier than fiction; sometimes it seems as if our ...Show more
MY SECRET HISTORY: A NOVEL by THEROUX PAUL
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for "My Secret History" ...Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's "Inferno" ...He is a crea ...Show more
Mr Bones: Twenty Stories by Paul Theroux
$26.00 NZD
Category: World 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: World 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