New Releases by PAUL THEROUX

World''s end -- Zombies -- The imperial icehouse -- Yard sale -- Algebra -- The English adventure -- After the war -- Words are deeds -- White lies -- Clapham Junction -- The odd-job man -- Portrait of a lady -- Volunteer speaker -- The greenest island.

World-famous photographer Maude Coffin Pratt has pointed her lens at the beautiful, obscure, and obscene, and at the private places and public parts of the famous, from Gertrude Stein to Graham Greene. When the seventy-year-old Maude rummages through her archives in preparation for a triumphant retrospective, the resurrected images unleash a flood of suppressed memories -- of her extraordinary life, her celebrated subjects, and the dark, painful secret at the core of her existence.

En engelsk etnograf og hans kone vender efter flere år i Afrika tilbage til England og finder beboerne der mindst lige så fremmedartede

Indians, from India, outfox Fong, a Chinese grocer, in business dealings in a mythical East African country.