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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
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Category: Health & 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
Dispatches by Michael Herr
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Category: History | 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
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
The Butcher Boy: Picador Classic by Patrick McCabe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Ross Raisin When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent. Francie Brady is a small-town rascal who spends his days turning a blind eye to the troubles at home and getting ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2004, a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain There was the soft glare of the flash -- twice -- three times -- a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot ...Show more
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
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Category: Poetry | Series: Picador classics | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by Jeanette Winterson This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man ...Show more
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
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Category: History | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Rory Stewart Winner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history. All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in existen ...Show more
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