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2666 by Roberto Bolano
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Ben Lerner. The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life. Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban spraw ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas: Picador Classic by V. S. Naipaul
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
'A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion.' - Anthony Burgess A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the 'wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a ba ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron. In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madne ...Show more
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
19.99 AUD
Category: Self Help | 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
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Philipp MeyerThe wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
19.14 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Twenty years after its publication, Australia's favourite novel has finally come to life on the screen. Adapted for television by Tim Winton and Ellen Fontana, Cloudstreet is a rambunctious saga of haunting, loving and letting go.This companion to the miniseries includes the complete shooting script, an ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano; Virginia Jewiss (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Misha Glenny. Since Gomorrah was first published in Italy in 2006, Roberto Saviano has received death threats and he has been assigned police protection. A ground-breaking study and a searing expose, Gomorrah is the astonishing true story of the renowned crime organization, the ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
21.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features i ...Show more
I Heard the Owl Call My Name [Picador Classic] by Margaret Craven
18.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by author Cynan Jones Amid the grandeur of British Columbia stands the village of Kingcome, a place of salmon runs and ancient totems. Yet in this Eden of such natural beauty and richness, the old culture is under attack - slowly being replaced by prefab houses and alcoholism. Into ...Show more
If the Spirit Moves You: Picador Classic by Justine Picardie
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Classic
"When I think about her now, which is most of the time, it's like rewinding a silent film in my head: I see the crucial scenes in our lives together. But what I can't hear is her voice in my head, and that silence is driving me crazy." After her sister Ruth's death from breast cancer in September 1997, ...Show more