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Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box. He was lost in a haze of booze, drugs and vilification. Then he was given a second chance. This is the life of Bret Easton Ellis, ...Show more
Mao II by Don DeLillo
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut.As Bill enters the world of polit ...Show more
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
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Category: 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
Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Colm Tóibín's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships.Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This ...Show more
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere. She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety of listless and confusing sexual encounters. After her girlfriend cheats on her, Maria stea ...Show more
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: 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
On the Move - A Life by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Biography | Series: Picador Collection
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . .From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused wi ...Show more
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine t ...Show more
Quarantine by Jim Crace
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Category: 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
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
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Category: Biography | 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
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Category: 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
Silence by Shusaku Endo; William Johnston (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Picador Collection
'Flawless' - David Mitchell'A masterpiece' - Daily TelegraphWinner of the Tanizaki PrizePublished in 1967 in Japan to huge controversy, Silence is Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed novel and a classic of its genre.Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, sets sail ...Show more