Gives an account of the author's journey by rail through Asia. This work describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met. It also shows how he is drawn into conversation with fellow passengers, from Molesworth, while avoiding the forceful approaches of pimps and drug dealers.

Tells of the author's journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, this work depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu.

A doubled, Janus-faced novel that combines the surfaces of memoir and travelogue with cunning fiction, My Secret History moves from Boston, across Africa, to London and also journeys into the depths of the human heart.

In his collected short stories we find the essence of Paul Theroux's experience, spanning 25 years of writing. His characters live all over the world, each seeking happiness or escape, often finding themselves in alien situations.

When Jilly becomes Millroy the Magician's assistant, she feels safe for the first time in her lonely life. But as Millroy's messianic fervour grows, so too do the doubts of Jilly, without whose soul and spirit Millroy cannot make magic.

This collection of travel writings is full of startling encounters and memorable scenes, fascinating and sometimes bizarre locations, and enlightening musings on themes as various as sexual attractions and the point of travel writing itself.

Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down this remote outpost in the sweltering jungle, he instead finds himself drawn to the many characters he meets among the Malays, Indians, Japanese, Chinese and the clubbable expat Brits.

At first Jack was the youngest drinker at the Bandung Club, but now at 53 he is almost a fixture at the bar. Expatriates like him begin to fear dying, and Jack still wants to convert his perfect dream of magic into reality.

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 business goes belly up, Ellis turns back to the one place in which he briefly found happiness. Yet returning to the village of Malabo shocks him. The school he built is a ruin.

Following the success of the acclaimed 'Ghost Train to the Eastern Star' and 'The Great Railway Bazaar', this book is an ode to the last African journey of the world's most celebrated travel writer, Paul Theroux.