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I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Bks.
Mark Brian, a young Anglican priest who does not have long to live, is sent to the Indian village of Kingcome in British Columbia. While sharing the hunting and fishing, the festivals and funerals and the joys and sorrows of a once proud tribe, Mark learns enough of life to prepare him for death.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse; Hilda Rosner (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Bks.
A bold translation of Nobel Prize-winner Herman Hesse's most inspirational and beloved work, which was nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Hesse's famous and influential novel, Siddartha, is perhaps the most important and comp ...Show more
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Bks.
Booker McConnell Prize winnner 1985.
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Bks.
The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret ...Show more
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Category: Classic | Series: Picador Bks.
Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William t ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Bks.
Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life. The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and ...Show more
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