09/05/2026
Titcomb's Bookshop is thrilled to present award-winning author Paul Theroux at the Sandwich Public Library on Wednesday, September 30th, at 6:45pm to talk about his new book, True North: On the Road in Canada.
Books will be for sale at the event, and Theroux will sign them after his presentation. Those who cannot attend may order a signed copy on our website or by calling the store at 508-888-2331. We ship!
Space is limited. RSVP here: https://titcombsbookshop.com/event-content/author-talk-with-paul-theroux-true-north
Acclaimed, bestselling author and "The world’s most perceptive travel writer" (Daily Mail) Paul Theroux turns his gaze to Canada in a sweeping, personal journey.
For more than half a century, Paul Theroux has traveled the globe and chronicled its far corners with curiosity, wit, and an unflinching eye. With True North, his twelfth travel book, he turns that eye to a country that has long been his quiet neighbor: Canada.
What begins as the completion of a North American road trip trilogy becomes something more personal. Theroux traces his own ancestral connection to Quebec, where his forebear Antoine Theroux arrived in the 17th century. Theroux meets his Quebcois friends and relations, then travels more widely through remote villages, multicultural cities, and sweeping landscapes that have defined modern Canada. Along the way, he speaks with farmers, refugees, writers like John Irving and Michael Ondaatje, and Indigenous leaders such as Tanya Talaga, listening as Canadians reckon with identity, belonging, and patriotism, often in response to the jabs and provocations of their southern neighbor.
