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A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason: Picador Classic by Helen Fielding
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by journalist Hadley Freeman9st 2, cigarettes smoked in front of Mark 0 (v.g.), cigarettes smoked in secret 7, cigarettes not smoked 47 (v.g.).Bridget's second diary ushers in a reformed woman. She is no longer a smoker (well, not much), the wilderness years are over, and she is at ...Show more
Cooking in a Small Kitchen by Arthur Schwartz; Lidia Matticchio Bastianich (Foreword by); Gary Rogers (Illustrator)
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Picador Cookstr Classics Ser.
With a new foreword by Lidia BastianichCooking in a Small Kitchen is a four-star cooking guide that shows you how to cut loose like a cordon bleu chef in a kitchen the size of a closet. If cramped quarters have stifled your menu or limited your company for dinner, Arthur Schwartz, expansive Daily News f ...Show more
Giving up the Ghost - A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
Category: Biography | 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
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano; Virginia Jewiss (Translator)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | 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
Green Sealing Wax - A Story by Colette; Antonia White (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Singles Ser.
Green Sealing Wax is a story from Colette, "the most French of all French writers" (New York Times)...
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Modern Classics Ser.
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of the ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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
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
In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Anne EnrightBefore the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the p ...Show more