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The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
25.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: near fine
With an introduction by Simon Callow Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius. Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And wha ...Show more
The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard
20.00 NZD
Category: General 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 Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
25.00 NZD
Category: Self Help/Psychology | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, a ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
24.99 NZD
Category: Self Help/Psychology | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer t ...Show more
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Filmed for Sky Atlantic, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Patrick Melrose Novels is the complete collection of Edward St Aubyn's award-winning novels of childhood trauma and aristocratic decadence. This Picador Classics edition features an introduction by author Zadie Smith.Patrick slid back down in h ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Andrew O'Hagan - a father - and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in th ...Show more
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
32.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Modern Classics Ser.
"These pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers " - Metro"Bought together or separately, these fiction titles are ideal stocking stuffers for the literature lover." - USA TodayThe national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage ...Show more
Trumpet (Picador Classic) by Jackie Kay
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Ali Smith. When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was ...Show more