Secret Books, Paperback - Marcel Theroux

A world on the brink of catastrophe. Beginning a treacherous journey through a world of spies and double-cross, propaganda, lost love, and anti-Sem...

Every day I buckle on my guns and go out to patrol this dingy city. Out on the far northern border of a failed state, Makepeace patrols the ruins o...

Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possi...

Publisher: Little, BrownAuthor(s): Marcel TherouxPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 215 x 24Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii...

Reducere. National Book Award Finalist for FictionMy father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west alwa...

Offers the reader insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots.Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul TherouxNumbe...

A Westerner leaves a Dungeons and Dragons book in a North Korean hotel, which ends up in the hands of a 10-year-old boy growing up during the Arduo...

Reducere. "Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft." -- New York Review of Books Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniq...

Reducere. The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer...

A funny, revealing and insightful take on the madness of living and working during a pandemic from the always entertaining Louis Theroux.Publisher:...

An account of Paul Theroux's ultimate "safari", from Cairo to Capetown. 35, 000 copies sold in hardback. Undoubtedly one of the biggest travel book...

Theroux contributes new prefaces to these new editions of his travel writing classics.

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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...

"Suave and accomplished . . . The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic." -- Washington Post "Beneath the ...

Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and tak...

Reducere. Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. For Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, it doesn...

Reducere. Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in thi...

Reducere. First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of ...

Full of encounters and memorable scenes, fascinating and sometimes bizarre locations, and enlightening musings on themes as various as sexual attra...

The author of }Deep South{ and }The Great Railway Bazaar{'s body of work is mined for its best bits, brought together here, with profiles of famous...

Reducere. This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary ...

Reducere. Description"A portrait of an optimist with curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms."--The New York Times Book Review "Theroux is at t...

Reducere. In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck ...

Reducere. "Theroux's eye for landscape remains as sharp as ever . . . It's Theroux's remarkable gift for getting strangers to reveal themselves that makes go...

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Reducere. DescriptionA master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India. This startling,...

Reducere. " Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can't help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, ne...

A funny, insightful memoir by much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux, who takes us on a weird and wonderful journey through his life and two de...

A funny, revealing and insightful take on the madness of living and working during a pandemic from the always entertaining Louis Theroux.Publisher:...

Reducere. "Theroux's work is like no one else's." -Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel f...

Reducere. "Theroux is at his best when he tellspeople's] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux's great mission had always been to transport us beyond that rea...

Reducere. In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to bui...

Reducere. "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 great...

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 th...

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'A wise and vivid memoir of a disintegrating marriage and a study of the role of the spouse in the life of a literary giant.' - i PaperPublisher: I...

A funny, revealing and insightful take on the madness of living and working during a pandemic from the always entertaining Louis Theroux.Publisher:...

Reducere. After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great B...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul TherouxNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 37Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

After eleven years living as an American in London, the author set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the Britis...

Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world's most acclaimed travel writer re-creates hi...

Explains and discusses how the justice system evolved, the way it operates - including vivid descriptions of the trial process - and how lawyers wo...

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DescriptionLying deep within the urban metropolis of Hong Kong, Happy Valley is one of the most iconic racecourses in the world. It is also the chi...

Publisher: V & Q BooksAuthor(s): Marcel BeyerTranslator: Katy DerbyshirePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 199 x 25Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Features essays about why we read. This work explores the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin ...