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A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of Americas most distinctive writersTheres sibling rivalry and then theres the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger.Enemies since childhood, the small town of Littleford just isnt big enough to hold them both. So, Cal strikes out for the worlds wild places - a gifted geologist in search of gold and other precious minerals - leaving Frank to develop a successful career as the towns lawyer, fixer and local hero.But when Cal, newly rich and newlywed, returns to the town of his birth, Frank gives him the opposite of a brotherly welcome, leading to a series of betrayals and reprisals culminating in the ultimate plan: murder.A riveting tale of adventure, betrayal and the true cost of family bonds, The Bad Angel Brothers is a remarkable novel from one of Americans most distinctive writers.Laden with jealousy, betrayal and a mythic lust for vengeance The New York TimesOne of the most accomplished and worldly-wise writers of his generation The Times

A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of Americas most distinctive writersTheres sibling rivalry and then theres the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger, which takes fraternal antipathy to a whole new level. Enemies seemingly since childhood, the small town of Littleford, where they are nicknamed The Bad Angle Brothers, just isnt big enough to hold them both. So Cal strikes out for the worlds wild places -- a gifted geologist in search of gold and other precious minerals, leaving Frank to develop a successful career as the towns lawyer, fixer and local hero.Apart, their differences are muted by distance, but when Cal, newly rich and newly wed, returns to the town of his birth, to buy a house and raise a family, Frank gives him the opposite of a brotherly welcome. From undermining Cals marriage, while Cal is away on business, to torpedoing his finances, nothing is off the table, setting the scene for a tale of gleefully vicious betrayals and reprisals, culminating in the ultimate plan: murder.Few authors have as keen an eye for human nature as the inimitable Paul Theroux, and this riveting tale of adventure, betrayal, and the true cost of family bonds is a remarkable new work fro

From renowned writer Paul Theroux comes a dazzling novel following a big-wave surfer in Hawaii as he confronts ageing, privilege and mortalityIt was as if in surfing he was carving his name in water, invisibly, joyously.Joe Sharkey knows he is passed his prime.Now in his sixties, the younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still revere him as the once-legendary Shark, but his sponsors have moved on, and Joe wonders what new future awaits him on the horizon. Uninterrupted quality time with the ocean, he hopes.Life has other plans.When he accidentally hits and kills a man near Waimea while drunk-driving, he fears he will never rebound. Under the direction of his stubbornly loyal girlfriend Olive, he throws himself into uncovering his victims story. But what they find in Max Mulgrave is entirely unexpected: a shared history - and refuge in the sea.Set on the stunning Hawaiian coast, Theroux captures the glory and nostalgia of looking back at a rich and adventurous past, whilst learning to ride out lifes next unexpected wave.[Paul Therouxs] writing skills are disciplined and muscular, his ear as finely tuned as a musicians, his eye sharper than any razor Daily Mail

From the bestselling novelist travel writer and master of the short story NPR comes a brilliant new collection The stories in The Vanishing Point are both exotic and domestic their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England Each focuses on life s vanishing points a moment when seemingly all lines running through one s life converge and one can see no farther yet must deal with the implications With the insight subtlety and empathy that has long characterized his work Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory longing and the passing of time reclaiming his status once again as a master of the form The most gifted most prodigal writer of his generation Jonathan Raban The most exciting contemporary practitioner of a literary tradition honed to elegantly crafted terseness by Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene A terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales Sunday Times

Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates The Contents of Some Travellers Bags and exposes Writers Who Wrote About Places They Never Visited; tracks extreme journeys in Travel As An Ordeal and highlights some of Travellers Favourite Places. Excerpts from the best of Therouxs own work are interspersed with selections from travellers both familiar and unexpected, including Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and more. The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.

Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Sweating and shivering by turns as the temperature and altitude shoot up and down, thrown in with the appalling Mr Thornberry in Limon and reading nightly to the blind writer, Borges, in Buenos Aires, Theroux vividly evokes the contrasts of a journey 'to the end of the line'.

Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilization 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. ''An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a mudbank of horror'' - Christopher Wordsworth, ''Guardian''. Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1941, and published his first novel, Waldo, in 1967. His subsequent novels include Picture Palace, winner of the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, The Mosquito Coast, and the hugely acclaimed, Kowloon Tong. His travel books include The Great Railway Bazaar and The Pillars of Hercules.