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Cities of the Plain (Border Trilogy #3) by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | 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
Damned If I Do by Percival Everett
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a san ...Show more
End Zone by Don DeLillo
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Category: 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
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Picador Collection
'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black 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 pr ...Show more
Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy
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Category: Poetry | 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
Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity.He leaves his band mid-tour and holes up in a dingy, unfurnished apartment in Great Jones Street. Unfortunately, his disappearing act only succee ...Show more
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'A scandalously under-recognised contemporary master' - The Wall Street Journal I am Not Sidney Poitier is a hilarious and irresistible take on race, class and identity. The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier's mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resem ...Show more
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
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Category: Travel | Series: Picador Collection
Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peak's histor ...Show more
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
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Category: Travel | 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
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
With an introduction by Otessa Moshfegh, author of Lapvona.In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodime ...Show more
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple - handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Almost at once, however, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful faca ...Show more