A memoir which includes a collection of short stories and an assemblage of fables.

One year before he published his first book in 1967, Paul Theroux met the acclaimed writer V.S. Naipaul. At first, Theroux was guided by the older writer, but as the years passed they became each other's editors, confidants and teachers.

Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.

After eleven years as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to suprise the British into talking about themselves. This book is the result of this trip.

Paul Theroux left Victoria Station in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way to get to the Chinese border. The reality, of course, was very different. In fact, Theroux experienced a decidedly odd and unexpected trip to China that set the challenging tone for his journey.

In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way.

Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia.

Theroux's characters risk venturing far beyond India's well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A holidaying middle-aged couple veer heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds relief in Mumbai's reeking slums, and a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.

Fired by a fascination with trains that stemmed from childhood, Paul Theroux set out one day with the intention of boarding every train from Victoria Station in London to Tokyo Central. This book tells his story.

A compendium of travel writing from a master traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, it celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped the author, as a reader and a traveller.