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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
$24.99 NZD
Category: Medical & Nursing | Series: Picador classics
I was used to my mind being my best friend. Now, all of a sudden, my mind had turned on me: it mocked me for my vapid enthusiasms; it laughed at all of my foolish plans; it no longer found anything interesting or enjoyable or worthwhile. Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on man ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
$36.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Anne EnrightShortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.As ...Show more
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
$24.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can ...Show more
Four Letters Of Love by Niall Williams
$39.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by John Hurt A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love In love everything changes, and continues changing all the time. There is no stillness, no stopped clock of the heart in which the moment of happ ...Show more
Giving up the Ghost - A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
$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. Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world's most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. ...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
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
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 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 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