Hit The Road
The road trip dates back to Homer's Odyssey, and fiction has been on the road ever since. American Purgatorio sees a man looking for his wife, who simply vanished when they stopped for petrol, The Ice Age indulges two travellers with no particular place to go and The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim highlights the dangers of getting too intimate with your sat nav. Hit the road this summer with a good book in your knapsack.
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Jack Kerouac; Ann Charters Sal Paradise ("Sam Riley"), a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty ("Garrett Hedlund"), a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and... | Vladimir Nabokov; John Ray; Craig Raine The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship... |
Neil Gaiman After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets... | Hunter S. Thompson; Ralph Steadman 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you... |
Robert Pirsig The narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son becomes a text which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal... | Mark Twain When Huckleberry Finn escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding... |
Adam Foulds A brilliant, touching and funny debut about an extraordinary friendship, a kidnapping, memory championships and a Russian bride | John Haskell A debut novel, this title is a road trip into the heart of a country and a man, a travelogue of loss and redemption, and a Pilgrim's Progress for a... |
| Tibor Fischer A disgraced professor and a one-armed, one-legged mugger go on the greatest bank robbing spree in French history... armed only with philosophy: comic genius. |
Roberto Bolano An exhilarating, must-read novel from one of Latin America's pre-eminent writers, and author of the acclaimed masterpiece 2666. | John Steinbeck; Jay Parini When John Steinbeck was almost sixty years old, worried that he might have lost touch with the sights, the sounds and the essence of America's people, he took note of... |
Jim Crace An evocative novel about the transformative power of love. | Tom Wolfe I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at ... |
Matthew Kneale How do you cope when your family is falling apart? | Colin Cotterill In the fifth instalment of the delightful Dr Siri series, Laos' reluctant chief coroner is kidnapped, while his colleagues contend with exploding corpses back at the morgue. |