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A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
$19.99 AUD
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
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
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
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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
I Heard the Owl Call My Name [Picador Classic] by Margaret Craven
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
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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
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by editor and author Robert McCrum. Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply u ...Show more
India - An Area of Darkness, India: a Wounded Civilization and India: a Million Mutinies Now by V.s. Naipaul
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Category: Travel | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar.V.S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. He returned in 2015 at eighty-two. The intervening years and visits sparked by an inquisitiveness about a country he had never seen but had been a dream of his since childh ...Show more
King Leopold's Ghost - A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
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Category: History | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo R ...Show more
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeit ...Show more
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Music | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by neuroscientist Daniel GlaserThe late Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds.Musicophilia is no different. In this breathtaking work, Sacks examines the power ...Show more
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by novelist Rachel KushnerIn the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, and their own coming-of-age stories. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole's search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand and an ill-fated r ...Show more
The Hiding Place - Picador Classic by Trezza Azzopardi
$9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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