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The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Filmed for Sky Atlantic, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Patrick Melrose Novels is the complete collection of Edward St Aubyn's award-winning novels of childhood trauma and aristocratic decadence. This Picador Classics edition features an introduction by author Zadie Smith.Patrick slid back down in h ...Show more
The Piano Tuner (Picador Classic) by Daniel Mason
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Sadie Jones 'Engrossing ...the reader falls under the spell that the author is weaving, surrendering to the story's exotic magic' The Times White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins. One misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Andrew O'Hagan - a father - and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in th ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent. - Daily TelegraphThe Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. With an introduction by novelist John Banville. A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly fo ...Show more
The Sculptress by Minette Walters; Stephanie Merritt (Introduction by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
This Picador Classic edition of Minette Walters' The Sculptress features an introduction by Stephanie Merritt, journalist and author of While You Sleep. 'It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed . . . Olive Martin is a dangerous woman. I advise you to be extremely wary in ...Show more
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
$24.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Picador Classic
I had attached myself to the birds. I couldn't move on until the birds moved on, and the birds couldn't move on without the spring. One winter, after an enforced period of recuperation, William Fiennes finds himself restless and yearning for adventure. He travels to Texas, where he begins a quest to tra ...Show more
The South: Picador Classic by Colm Toibin
$39.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Roy Foster A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has ...Show more
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Anthony Quinn In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyone, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it w ...Show more
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador classics | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by Jeanette Winterson This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man ...Show more
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Them: Adventures with Extremists is a romp into the heart of darkness involving twelve-foot lizard-men, PR-conscious Ku Klux Klansmen, Ian Paisley, Hollywood limousines, the legend of Ruby Ridge, Noam Chomsky, a harem of kidnapped sex slaves, David Icke, and Nicolae Ceausescu's shoes. While Jon Ronson a ...Show more
Them: Adventures with Extremists: Picador Classic by Jon Ronson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Russell Brand What if a tiny, shadow elite rule the world from a secret room? My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did. What ...Show more
Underworld by Don DeLillo
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic
He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful. It's a vast and sprawling crowd that comes together to watch the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League Final, and when Bobby Thomson hits the Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants, rippl ...Show more