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The Confident Cook by Irena Chalmers; Robert Graham Penny (Illustrator); Anne Willan (Foreword by)
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Picador Cookstr Classics Ser.
With a new foreword by Anne WillanAnyone who can understand the reasoning behind basic cooking techniques can become a creative, relaxed, and confident cook. Chalmers takes the would-be chef through how the addition or substitution of a few ingredients can transform a simple dish into a culinary masterp ...Show more
The Dead Girls by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Colm TóibínIn 1960s Central Mexico, two sisters, Delfina and María de Jesús González, known as 'Las Poquianchis', run a small-town brothel. Kidnapped, drugged and beaten, their young workers are desperate for escape. The Dead Girls is the discovery of these ...Show more
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff. Taking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself ...Show more
The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JONATHAN COE An extraordinary post-modern detective novel from an author who remained a mystery for decades, now relaunched as a Picador Classic. 1930s King's Cross, London. When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film studio ...Show more
The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a Record of the Early Life of St. Laura de Nazianzi by Ronald Firbank
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Alan HollinghurstNeither her Gaudiness the Mistress of the Robes, or her Dreaminess the Queen were feeling quite themselves. In the Palace all was speculation . . .Ronald Firbank, described by Alan Hollinghurst as 'one of the most important figures in British fiction in the twent ...Show more
The Hiding Place - Picador Classic by Trezza Azzopardi
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
This brilliant first novel is set in the Maltese community of Tiger Bay in Cardiff where the author grew up. Dolores, the narrator, tells the story of her childhood - her father, Frankie, a compulsive gambler who, due to a misunderstanding at the moment of her birth (he is convinced that his wife will f ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The story of modern medicine and bioethics--and, indeed, race relations--is refracted beautifully, and movingly."--Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO(R) STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE - ONE OF THE "MOST INFLUENTIAL" (CNN), "DEFINING" (LITH ...Show more
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
"My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can't but write it in the present tense." Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family ...Show more
The Light Years (#1 The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
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 Little Prince (Picador Classic) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Category: Classic | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Kate MosseTranslated by Ros SchwartzAll grown-ups were children once (but most of them have forgotten).A pilot who has crash landed in the desert awakes to see an extraordinary little boy. 'Please,' asks the stranger, 'will you draw me a little lamb!' Baffled by the little prince ...Show more
The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Hilary Mantel.One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even things up: or if such notions ever occurred to him, he would have observed them with detached ...Show more
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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