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The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
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Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Anthony Quinn In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyone, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it w ...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
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Them: Adventures with Extremists is a romp into the heart of darkness involving twelve-foot lizard-men, PR-conscious Ku Klux Klansmen, Ian Paisley, Hollywood limousines, the legend of Ruby Ridge, Noam Chomsky, a harem of kidnapped sex slaves, David Icke, and Nicolae Ceausescu's shoes. While Jon Ronson a ...Show more
Them: Adventures with Extremists: Picador Classic by Jon Ronson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Russell Brand What if a tiny, shadow elite rule the world from a secret room? My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did. What ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter.' Sunday Times I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me. I ...Show more
Waterland: Picador Classic by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by John BurnsideShortlisted for the 1983 Booker prize, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize.Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the story-telling animal.Tom Crick is a pa ...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