Marcel Theroux

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1999
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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Books in Order: 9 titles

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  • The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

    Written “with intelligence, compassion, and an occasional quiet lyricism” (Krys Lee, The Guardian), this mesmerizing novel is about a North Korean boy whose life is irrevocably changed when he stumbles across a mysterious Western book -- a guide ...

  • The Paperchase

  • An Unexpected Gift

    Originally written and pressed as Christmas cards for friends and family, An Unexpected Gift: Three Christmas Stories collects and presents three funny, tender, modern tales from Marcel Theroux. A hard-pressed barber gets an angelic last-minute cu...

  • The Secret Books

    A world on the brink of catastrophe. A two thousand year old mystery. A lost gospel. Seeking adventure, a young man flees the drudgery of shopkeeping in Tsarist Russia to make a new life among the bohemians and revolutionaries of 19th century Par...

  • Strange Bodies

    Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead. In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen h...

  • Far North

    Out on the far northern border of a failed state, Makepeace--sheriff and perhaps the last citizen--patrols the city ruins, salvaging books but keeping the guns in good repair. Into this cold land comes shocking evidence that life might be flourish...

  • Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase

  • The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes

    Damien March is a disconsolate thirty-something working the night shift at the BBC. He hasn't thought of his eccentric Uncle Patrick for years when he receives a terse telegram: Patrick dead. Father. Damien is surprised to learn that he has inherited...

  • A Stranger in the Earth

    Arriving in London to work for his great uncle at the local newspaper, Horace Littlefair is unprepared, overdressed, and underpaid for what awaits him when he is hurled into a world of love, racism, blackmail, political intrigue, and Scrabble, where ...



Award-Winning Books by Marcel Theroux

Strange Bodies
2014 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marcel Theroux has published 9 books.

Marcel Theroux does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Sorcerer of Pyongyang, was published in December 2022.

The first book by Marcel Theroux, A Stranger in the Earth, was published in August 1999.

No. Marcel Theroux does not write books in series.
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