Hotel Honolulu: A Novel
A writer turned Hawaiian hotel manager observes the many lives that pass through his rooms in this novel by the author of The Great Railway Bazaar. A New York Times Notable Book In this wickedly satiric romp, a... See More
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by Paul Theroux
(431 reviews)
Quick ViewA writer turned Hawaiian hotel manager observes the many lives that pass through his rooms in this novel by the author of The Great Railway Bazaar. A New York Times Notable Book In this wickedly satiric romp, a... See More
by Paul Theroux
(1,487 review)
Quick ViewThe acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: "Compulsive reading" (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month... See More
by Paul Theroux
(150 reviews)
Quick ViewA travel writer is drawn into a strange criminal case, and an even stranger romantic affair, in a novel that brings India "brilliantly, blazingly to life" (The Washington Post). When Jerry Delfont, an aimless, blocked... See More
by Paul Theroux
(197 reviews)
Quick ViewIn this "candid, perceptive and intelligent" trio of novellas, the acclaimed travel writer presents tales of Westerners transformed by sojourns in India (Independent, UK). These three intertwined novellas by the author of... See More
by Paul Theroux
(190 reviews)
Quick ViewThe acclaimed author explores the greatest travel writing by literary adventurers from Freya Stark and James Baldwin to Nabokov and Hemmingway. Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe with this meditative... See More
by Paul Theroux
(2,529 reviews)
Quick ViewThe acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar takes a revealing journey through the Southern US in a "vivid contemporary portrait of rural life" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Paul Theroux has spent decades roaming... See More
by Paul Theroux
(717 reviews)
Quick ViewThe author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: "This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books" (Publishers Weekly). In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel... See More
by Paul Theroux
(110 reviews)
Quick ViewPaul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first... See More
by Paul Theroux
(880 reviews)
Quick ViewThe acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake... See More
by Paul Theroux
(65 reviews)
Quick ViewThis collection of wide-ranging essays from the New York Times-bestselling travel writer is "a steamer trunk full of delights" (Chicago Sun-Times). This collection of decidedly opinionated articles, essays, and... See More
by Paul Theroux
(388 reviews)
Quick ViewThis "interesting, insightful book" by the author of Deep South reveals "a side of Britain few visitors see" (The New York Times Book Review). After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer... See More
by Paul Theroux
(429 reviews)
Quick View"Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor." -- Stephen King, New York Times Book Review To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven... See More
by Paul Theroux
(12 reviews)
Quick View"A Vonnegut tinged absurdist satire... (a) tightly paced, expertly drawn comic romp" from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mosquito Coast (LitReactor). Paul Theroux, one of the world's most popular authors, both... See More
by Paul Theroux
(31 reviews)
Quick View"This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it." He, the narrator, was a twenty-one-year-old art student traveling the world. She was a countess -- apparently cold, haughty, and inaccessible -- traveling with... See More
by Paul Theroux
(308 reviews)
Quick View"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 skeletal facts we have... See More
by Paul Theroux
(1,491 review)
Quick ViewAN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING JUSTIN THEROUX, SEASON 2 STREAMING NOW "An Impressive and disturbing vision of the American psyche." -- Washington Post Book World From legendary writer Paul Theroux, an... See More
by Paul Theroux
(74 reviews)
Quick ViewThe international bestselling author records his many insights and adventures traversing the world by train in these 3 classic travel memoirs. The Great Railway Bazaar In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on his now-legendary... See More
by Paul Theroux
(177 reviews)
Quick ViewAn American pimp in Singapore finds his life of pleasure turning against him in this comic novel by the acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar. Once a small-time American hustler, Jack Flowers found his calling when... See More
by Paul Theroux
(869 reviews)
Quick ViewThe acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar retraces his legendary journey through Europe and Asia in this "funny, informative and lyrical" travelogue (The Guardian, UK). Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern... See More
by Paul Theroux
(1,248 review)
Quick ViewThe acclaimed author of Dark Star Safari journeys across western Africa in this "thoroughly engrossing [and] at times tragic" travelogue (Washington Post). Paul Theroux's best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled his epic... See More
by Paul Theroux
(626 reviews)
Quick ViewThe acclaimed travel writer chronicles a year of train travel across China in a revealing travelogue that "gives the reader much to relish and think about" (Publishers Weekly). The author of the train travel classics The... See More
by Paul Theroux
(30 reviews)
Quick View"Never a dull moment... Vivid and deft." -- New York Review of Books Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniques and uncanny ability to strip away the masks of the world's most... See More
by Paul Theroux
(107 reviews)
Quick ViewIn this "moody thriller," a family business is targeted for takeover as control of Hong Kong shifts from the British to the Chinese (The New York Times). Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British... See More
by Paul Theroux
(641 reviews)
Quick View"DAZZLING." --Time "[THEROUX'S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING GESTURE; a storyteller's sense of pacing and gift for granting closure to the most subtle progression of events; and the... See More
by Paul Theroux
(152 reviews)
Quick ViewThe acclaimed writer shares an intimate portrait of his former mentor V.S. Naipaul in this memoir of their thirty-year friendship and sudden falling out. Paul Theroux was a young aspiring writer when he met the legendary... See More
by Paul Theroux
(251 reviews)
Quick ViewFrom the legendary American master Paul Theroux comes a brilliant new novel of chilling psychological depth, the tale of a younger brother whose lifelong rivalry with his older brother -- a powerful lawyer with a pattern of... See More
by Paul Theroux
(213 reviews)
Quick View"Suave and accomplished... [The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic." -- Washington Post "Beneath the deceptive elegance of these stories, land mines lurk, and Theroux detonates... See More
by Paul Theroux
(206 reviews)
Quick View"There are those who think that Paul Theroux is the finest travel writer working in English. This collection can only enhance that reputation." -- The New York Times Book Review Author and travel writer Paul Theroux does... See More
by Paul Theroux
(1,538 review)
Quick ViewThe legendary travel writer's thrilling and dangerous account of his journey across Africa A rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey... See More
by Paul Theroux
(72 reviews)
Quick ViewSlade Steadman's lone opus, published twenty years ago, was Trespassing, a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend Ava in tow, Steadman sets... See More