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Oreo by Fran Ross
$19.98 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James 'A rollicking little masterpiece . . . one of the most delightful, hilarious, intelligent novels I've stumbled across in recent years' Paul Auster Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandpare ...Show more
Quarantine: Picador Classic by Jim Crace
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Stuart Evers So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and camels any more, of being Miri without shame or hesitation, of letting drop her headscarf for a change so that nothing intervened between h ...Show more
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem - loneliness. With delightful humour, Pym takes us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements; and, perhaps most keenly felt, their worries about having ...Show more
Red Dust Road: Picador Classic by Jackie Kay
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon `Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read' Independent From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a diffe ...Show more
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
A novel inspired by the shocking true story of the Scottsboro boys, whose legacy has shaped the course of modern American history Even after all these years, the injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred. Lives splinte ...Show more
Silence by Shusaku Endo
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And I keep turning over in my mind the thought that I am at the end of the earth, in a place which you do not know and which your whole lives through you will never visit. It is 1640 and Father Sebastian Rodr ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Essays by Joan Didion
$0.00 NZD
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. Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a wat ...Show more
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Colm Toibin 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH EXTRA MATERIAL Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize, a dark and unsettling crime classic. Frederick Charles St John Vanderveld Montgomery. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Don't make me laugh. F ...Show more
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by novelist Rachel KushnerIn the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, and their own coming-of-age stories. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole's search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand and an ill-fated r ...Show more
The Butcher Boy: Picador Classic by Patrick McCabe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Ross Raisin When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent. Francie Brady is a small-town rascal who spends his days turning a blind eye to the troubles at home and getting ...Show more
The City and the City by China Mieville
$18.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, tha ...Show more
The Debt To Pleasure by John Lanchester
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: near fine
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996. Tarquin Winot, voluptuary and supercivilized ironist (and snob), sets out on a journey of the senses from the Hotel Splendide, Portsmouth, to his cottage in Provence, his spiritual home. With his head newly shaved and his well-thumbed copy of the Mossad Ma ...Show more