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A Little Life: Tik Tok made me buy it! by Hanya Yanagihara
$22.99 AUD
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | 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
An Unquiet Mind - A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
$23.00 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty' - Oliver Sacks An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A classic memoir of enormous candour and courage, it teems with t ...Show more
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
$19.99 AUD
Category: Kids Classics | Series: Picador Collection
At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid's first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and 1982, including the seminal 'Girl', these stunning ...Show more
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the ext ...Show more
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
$21.99 AUD
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
End Zone by Don DeLillo
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies o ...Show more
Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy
$25.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though ...Show more
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography (General) | Series: Picador Collection
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later. In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charit ...Show more
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | 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
Quarantine by Jim Crace
$23.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
*Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award**Shortlisted for the Booker Prize*'Dazzling, gritty brilliance' - Sunday Times'Completely captivating' - Literary ReviewJim Crace's provocative retelling of Jesus' forty day fast in the desert is a classic that tampers with tradition. Moving and fascinating in equal ...Show more