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The Butcher Boy: Picador Classic by Patrick McCabe
$19.98 AUD
Category: No Category | 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 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi Fantasy | 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 Light Years (#1 The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Joanna Lumley The Light Years is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling five-part series, 'The Cazalet Chronicles'.Home Place, Sussex, 1937.For two unforgettable summers the Cazalets gathered together, safe from the advancing storm clouds of the Second World War. ...Show more
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
$21.99 AUD
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 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
'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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy | 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 Master by Colm Tóibín (Toibin)
$19.99 AUD
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 Road by Cormac McCarthy
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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 Road by Cormac McCarthy
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
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 Sculptress by Minette Walters; Stephanie Merritt (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | 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 Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but w ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
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Category: Biography | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter.' Sunday Times I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me. I ...Show more