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The Discovery of France: Picador Classic by Graham Robb
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Colm TóibínTen years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority . . .France is a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. And yet the notion of 'the French' as one nation is relatively rece ...Show more
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff. Taking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself ...Show more
The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by James Naughtie Take a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That's your problem-solving system ...But haven't we tried all that? Howard Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marr ...Show more
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
"My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can't but write it in the present tense." Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2004, a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain There was the soft glare of the flash -- twice -- three times -- a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot ...Show more
The Little Prince (Picador Classic) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Kate MosseTranslated by Ros SchwartzAll grown-ups were children once (but most of them have forgotten).A pilot who has crash landed in the desert awakes to see an extraordinary little boy. 'Please,' asks the stranger, 'will you draw me a little lamb!' Baffled by the little prince ...Show more
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she w ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, a ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$28.00 NZD
Category: Medical & Nursing | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer t ...Show more
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian ...Show more
The Master by Colm Tóibín (Toibin)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Tessa Hadley In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; Diana Lewis Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translators)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts—one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow—the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a ...Show more