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Mother Land by Paul Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A darkly hilarious portrait of one dysfunctional American family and its scheming matriarch Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many ...Show more
Mother Land by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman- pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant - endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring ...Show more
Mr Bones: Twenty Stories by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 piec ...Show more
Mr Bones and Other Stories by Paul Theroux
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 that it's just a matter of time before she turns on h ...Show more
On The Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Mexico
Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers ...Show more
On the Plain of Snakes - A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty- ...Show more
Pocket Penguins : Two Stars by Paul Theroux
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins S.
Penguin has happily been Theroux's companion both in his fictional and non-fictional forays, and in Two Stars he explores the worls of celebrity surrounding two icons: Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe.
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries 1964-1984 by Paul Theroux
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
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 ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writers There's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger. Enemies since childhood, the small town of Littleford just isn't big enough to hold them both. S ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writers. There's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger, which takes fraternal antipathy to a whole new level. Enemies seemingly since childhood, the ...Show more
The Collected Stories: World's End; Sinning with Annie; Jungle Bells; The Consul's File; The London Embassy; by Paul Theroux
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A collection of stories that delve into the worlds of a spectrum of characters. 'No one ever sees me write. One of the triumphs of fiction is that it is created in the dark. It leaves my house in a plain wrapper, with no bloodstains. Unlike me, my stories are whole and indestructible.' Theroux's canvas ...Show more
The Consul's File by Paul Theroux
$22.95 AUD
Category: Travel
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 t ...Show more