There is a short period in everyone’s life when his character is fixed forever . . . ‘ George Orwell Eric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma. Nineteen years old, unusually tall, a diffident...
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...
“Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,” writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey through the continent he knows and loves best. Theroux first came to Africa as a twenty-two-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, and...
A washed-up writer sets out for Ecuador’s jungle in search of a rare hallucinogen. Traveling amid a gaggle of thrill-seeking tourists, he finds his drug, which heightens both his powers of perception and his libido but leaves him with...
This gripping novel tells of the adventures inflicted upon this family by the brilliant and yet dangerous Allie Fox, as he tries to settle everyone into the Honduran jungle. He has removed them from the evils of modern day...
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