Paul Theroux

Riding the Iron Rooster is a travel book by Paul Theroux primarily about his travels through China in the 1980s. One of his aims is to disprove the Chinese maxim, "you can always fool a foreigner". It won the 1989 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Theroux travelled through China for a year, ending his journey in Tibet …

Saint Jack is a 1973 novel by Paul Theroux and a 1979 film of the same name. It tells the life of Jack Flowers, a pimp in Singapore. Feeling hopeless and undervalued, Jack tries to make money by setting up his own bordello, and clashes with Chinese triad members in the process.

Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents is a book by Paul Theroux.

The Collected Stories is a book by Paul Theroux.