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A House for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul / V. S. Naipaul
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSOne of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection | Reading Level: very good
The million-copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their ...Show more
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all ...Show more
All The Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1) by Cormac McCarthy
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Collection
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this modern classic, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and w ...Show more
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
With an introduction by Philipp Meyer The 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 o ...Show more
Cities of the Plain (Border Trilogy #3) by Cormac McCarthy
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Collection
In<i> Cities of the Plain</i>, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of <i>All the Pretty Horses</i> and <i>The Crossing</i> now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
35.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Collection
A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career. Containing over a hundred essays, this is a definitive guide to twentieth century culture, cataloguing and exploring the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, art ...Show more
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS Winner of the National Book Award 1990 The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans. Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed slave, spends his days loitering around the docks of New Orleans, dodging debt collectors, gangsters, and Isado ...Show more
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Collection
<b>Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, <i>No Country For Old Men</i> is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of <i>The Road</i>.</b> Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone ...Show more
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: Picador Collection
<b>CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS</b> <i>You think adoption is a story which has an end. But the point about it is that it has no end. It keeps changing its ending.</i> From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of he ...Show more
Room by Emma Donoghue
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key.Jack and Ma are prisoners.'Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days' Audrey Niffenegger'One o ...Show more