Paul Theroux

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

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....

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

A writer accepts a job as a manager of a low-rent hotel in Hawaii. He acts as a witness to the hotel's cast of characters, chronicling their stories and ultimately regaining his will to write....

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

A young, smart, and beautiful American woman signs up for an escort service to prove to a man she barely knows that she will do just about anything....

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....

From the best-selling author of My Other Life comes a witty novel set against the backdrop of Hong Kong's reunification with China....

A collection of essays that reveal Theroux's self-inflicted lifestyle of compulsive travel, writing, and alienation....

Collected here for the first time, Theroux's tales are funny, sardonic, sensuous and evocative, streaked with terror and cruelty....

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

From the legendary 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 gleefully vicious betrayals—culminates in the ultimate plan: murder....

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....  

Spanning almost 30 years, My Other Life traces the journey of a fictional Paul Theroux from young bachelorhood in Africa, to his travels between continents, and much more....

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....

Quintessential travel articles and thoughtful essays by the observant, witty and skeptical travel writer and novelist....

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....

Jilly Farina is 14. Her father is drunk on the day of the Barnstable County Fair, so she goes by herself, and that night her life is transformed....

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

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