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...Now the novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux has taken the formative years of Orwell’s police service and reimagined them....
...Rana Mitter is right in his review of Paul Theroux’s novel Burma Sahib, a reimagining of George Orwell’s empire days (“Just following orders”, Books, Life & Arts, February 24)....
...Paul Theroux’s forthcoming book, ‘Burma Sahib’, is a novel based on the early working life of George Orwell, when he was a policeman in 1920s Burma....
...Take a break from the news Richard Ford, Sara Wheeler, Paul Theroux and other writers reflect on their favourite swimming spots, from an outdoor pool in Iceland built near a volcano to a hotel in West Hollywood...
...In his 1992 book The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paul Theroux described the archipelagos of the Pacific as being “like a universe . . . a chart of it looked like a portrait of the night sky”....
...Paul Theroux was among those who detected a definite shift of gears from the journalist who wittily described Bogotá in Cities (1963) as “dignified but highly strung, like Edinburgh with twitches”) to the...
...By 1975, travel writer Paul Theroux was unsurprised the train had inspired so many crime writers, “since in most respects the Orient Express really is murder”....
...I feel rather proud that I am the only one who has read Sir Vidia’s Shadow, Paul Theroux’s incredibly whiny memoir about Naipaul, and entertain the group with some of its excesses....
...I had read Paul Theroux on the power of the African continent to “bewitch the credulous”....
...In 1982, the American writer Paul Theroux travelled clockwise from Margate around the coast of Britain for his book The Kingdom by the Sea....
...Under the Wave at Waimea, by Paul Theroux, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$28, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...This is the effective, if fairly literal, statement of tonal intent presented by Apple TV Plus’s pacy new seven-part series, loosely based on Paul Theroux’s 1981 novel of the same name....
...The starting point was Paul Theroux’s novel of an American pimp....
...actors and comedians, as well as the likes of Barack Obama and Paul McCartney (and Theroux himself)....
...Paul Theroux, meanwhile, seems impatient with just about everyone he met along his travels. “Paul is, yes, not a great lover of people.”...
...books by Ben Okri, Paul Theroux and footballer Ian Wright....
...Travel is glamorous only in retrospect, claims grouchy travel author Paul Theroux....
...In the 1970s, Paul Theroux also used to live nearby; he wrote a novel called The Black House, about Four Ashes, a little-known crossroads on the edge of the vale....
...Paul Theroux, in recovery from their long friendship, wrote a whole book of vehement score-settling (Sir Vidia’s Shadow, 1998)....
...On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip, by Paul Theroux, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£20/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$30 Now 78, the great traveller might be forgiven for choosing a relaxing cruise or a...
...There is Bill Bryson’s affectionate Notes From A Small Island and Paul Theroux’s unaffectionate The Kingdom by the Sea, but these are entertaining rambles rather than systematic attempts to explain the place...
...quotes from the savage review that Paul Theroux’s real-life brother gave one of his own books....
...The author Salman Rushdie tweeted: “We disagreed all our lives, about politics, about literature, and I feel as sad as if I just lost a beloved older brother,” and the travel writer Paul Theroux, who mended...
...Such was his stature that a writer as successful as Paul Theroux devoted a whole book, Sir Vidia’s Shadow, to his quest to keep a grip on Naipaul’s social coat-tails....
...As her fellow writer Paul Theroux said: “You can take what she says to the bank.” He was right, with one exception. In 2001 Morris promised that she had written her last book....
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