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Giving up the Ghost - A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Not a Book | Series: Picador Modern Classics Ser.
Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world's most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. ...Show more
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano; Virginia Jewiss (Translator)
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Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Misha Glenny. Since Gomorrah was first published in Italy in 2006, Roberto Saviano has received death threats and he has been assigned police protection. A ground-breaking study and a searing expose, Gomorrah is the astonishing true story of the renowned crime organization, the ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
$36.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features i ...Show more
In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Anne EnrightBefore the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the p ...Show more
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by editor and author Robert McCrum. Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply u ...Show more
King Leopold's Ghost - A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
$37.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo R ...Show more
King of the World: Muhammad Ali by David Remnick
$24.99 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Salman RushdieWith a new afterword by the authorIt was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell.When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s ...Show more
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeit ...Show more
Lucky by Alice Sebold
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by the author of Circe and The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller In Lucky, a memoir long-hailed for its blistering honesty and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was irrevocably changed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was raped and beaten inside a tunnel nea ...Show more
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
$19.98 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by neuroscientist Daniel GlaserThe late Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds.Musicophilia is no different. In this breathtaking work, Sacks examines the power ...Show more
My Year off : Rediscovering Life After a Stroke by Robert McCrum
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Classic
"My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?" Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaire ...Show more
Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Eimear McBride A devastatingly powerful, moving and uplifting memoir - now a classic of its genre - that inspired others to tell their own true life stories When our stepfather staggered home reeking of whisky, ceramic hit the wall. We got used to the smash and the next-day stain ...Show more