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  • Mr Bones
    Paul Theroux
    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 pieces. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy malicious gossip knowing t...
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    23,42 €

  • The Lower River
    Paul Theroux
    Award-winning writer Paul Theroux draws upon personal experience of living in Malawi in his eye-opening novel about one man’s return to an Africa he no longer recognises The Lower River. Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his business goes belly up Ellis turns back to...
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    23,51 €

  • Saint Jack
    Paul Theroux
    Award-winning writer Paul Theroux explores the darker underside of the community of expatriates in South-East Asia in his compelling and strikingly honest novel Saint Jack. Jack Flowers saint or sinner caught a passing bumboat into Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship chandler. Now on the side he offers girls (indeed ’anything anything at all’) to tou...
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    23,90 €

  • The Consuls File
    Paul Theroux
    Award-winning writer Paul Theroux takes us on a journey through small town Malaysia through the eyes of the exuberant Spencer Savage in his breathtaking novel The Consul’s File. Spencer Savage a young American consul is posted to Ayer Hitam a small Malaysian town in the 1970s. Told to close down this remote outpost in the sweltering jungle he instead finds himself drawn to...
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    19,36 €

  • Millroy the Magician
    Paul Theroux
    Award-winning writer Paul Theroux tells a bewitching tale of circus magic and hypnotism which seems to hide a more sinister objective in his exquisite novel Millroy the Magician. Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina walks into the tent at the County Fair and finds her life transformed. Fixing her with her hypnotic gaze Millroy the Magician performs astonishing miracles. When she is ...
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    24,26 €

  • Fresh-air Fiend
    Paul Theroux
    In this collection of Theroux’s shorter travel writings he writes of sweatshops in Dongguan massage parlours in Kowloon jellyfish in Palau and bomb craters on Chrsitmas Island.Whether visiting the King of the Lozis at a bend in the Zambezi river or crossing the United States in a railway car of unsurpassable luxury relating his experiments with biblical dieting or detailin...
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    24,10 €

  • Sir Vidias Shadow
    Paul Theroux
    Sir Vidia’s Shadow is a book that chronicles bestselling author Paul Theroux’s long friendship with writer V.S Naipaul from its beginning to untimely end with both funny and moving moments and stark honesty. ’Both unputdownable and utterly engaging’ Jonathan Raban The Times Literary Supplement’I started reading Theroux Sir Vidia’s Shadow the story of his friendship with V.S. ...
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    23,24 €

  • The Collected Stories
    Paul Theroux
    The Collected Stories is a collection of award-winning writer Paul Theroux’s short stories each of which brimming with astute observations and sharp wit that will captivate readers the world over.’[Theroux] makes and remakes his own world...the smell sound sight of his scenes is always strong even pungent; and even more his dialogue is powerfully but also effortlessly acc...
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    17,40 €

  • Sunrise With Seamonsters
    Paul Theroux
    Award winning Paul Theroux has written many iconic shorter pieces of travel writing which have been collected together in the captivating Sunrise with Seamonsters. Sunrise with Seamonsters is Paul Theroux’s immensely entertaining collection of his shorter writings ranging from sketches to critical essays. Each piece marks a new ’confrontation with the world’ and throws new lig...
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    23,97 €

  • My Secret History
    Paul Theroux
    ’Written with a rare intensity of both intelligence and feeling. . . a superbly realistic evocation of the journeys (both dark and comical) of the human heart’ Salman Rushdie ObserverIn My Secret History award-winning writer Paul Theroux offers the reader an exciting insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots. ’Nothing on the shelf has quite prep...
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    24,90 €

  • A Dead Hand
    Paul Theroux
    A Dead Hand is a dark tale of crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux.Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer’s block. Lounging in Calcutta one day he receives a mysterious letter. It comes from an American philanthropist Mrs Merrill Unger. An Indian friend of her son is in trouble: he woke up in a hotel room with a dead body next to him; he panicked and fled. Mrs Unger would...
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    23,81 €

  • The Elephanta Suite
    Paul Theroux
    Award-winning writer Paul Theroux removes the mystery and reveals the real India in his compelling novel The Elephanta Suite. We in the West think we know India. But as Paul Theroux reveals we need to think again. . . The Elephanta Suite brilliantly explores the shifting stories of those who come to India in search of that elusive something - and of how they react when the co...
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    23,70 €

  • The Stranger at the Palazzo dOro
    Paul Theroux
    Award-winning writer Paul Theroux tells four exhilarating stories of desire in which nothing is as it seems in The Stranger at the Palazzo d’Oro. A young American walks into Sicily’s Palazzo d’Oro during the ’60s. Penniless but swaggering with youth and burgeoning artistic talent he accepts a proposition to become the companion to a beautiful and beguiling aristocrat. Their...
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    22,54 €

  • The Old Patagonian Express
    Paul Theroux
    Award-winning travel writer Paul Theroux invites you aboard The Old Patagonian Express by Train through the Americas; packed with powerful descriptions and portraits of the many colours of humanity The Old Patagonian Express is an unforgettable read. A witty sharply observed journey down the length of North and South AmericaBeginning his journey in Boston where he boarded the...
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    24,30 €

  • The Pillars of Hercules
    Paul Theroux
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    17,88 €

  • My Secret History
    Paul Theroux
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    24,93 €