From renowned writer Paul Theroux comes a dazzling novel following a big-wave surfer in Hawaii as he confronts ageing, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember \"It was as if in surfing he was carving his name in water, invisibly, joyously.\" Joe Sharkey knows he is passed his prime....

A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America\"s most acclaimed writers Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children....

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux\"s classic and much-loved homage to train travel. The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail from Jaipur; the Golden Arrow of Kuala; the Trans-Siberian Express; these are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux\"s epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia....

The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux\"s compelling account of his final African journey. Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa\"s western edge....

At 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. His grand tour of the Mediterranean begins in Gibraltar and takes him through Spain, the French Riviera, Italy, Greece, Istanbul and beyond....

As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020 Award 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 The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain....

The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world....

\"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 recognizable celebrities and luminaries....

Setting off in his hometown, and ending up \"almost at the end of the world\", Paul Theroux\"s The Old Patagonian Express is 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....

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

A decade ago, Paul Theroux’s best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled his epic overland voyage from Cairo to Cape Town, providing an insider’s look at modern Africa. Now, with The Last Train to Zona Verde, he returns to discover how both he and Africa have changed in the ensuing years....

Allie Fox hates America and everything about the 20th century, so he decides to take his wife and two sons to live a better and simpler life in the Honduran jungle. However, when he starts to go mad, life for his family becomes much more frightening than ever before....

Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than......

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....

\"A book to be plundered and raided.\" -- \"New York Times Book Review\" \"A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the greatest travel writers of our day....