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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
21.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador classics
I was used to my mind being my best friend. Now, all of a sudden, my mind had turned on me: it mocked me for my vapid enthusiasms; it laughed at all of my foolish plans; it no longer found anything interesting or enjoyable or worthwhile. Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on man ...Show more
Cooking in a Small Kitchen by Arthur Schwartz; Lidia Matticchio Bastianich (Foreword by); Gary Rogers (Illustrator)
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Category: Food | Series: Picador Cookstr Classics Ser.
With a new foreword by Lidia BastianichCooking in a Small Kitchen is a four-star cooking guide that shows you how to cut loose like a cordon bleu chef in a kitchen the size of a closet. If cramped quarters have stifled your menu or limited your company for dinner, Arthur Schwartz, expansive Daily News f ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
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Category: Popular History | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sheila Heti 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 properly speak until there is someone who can ...Show more
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of the ...Show more
Sameen Rushdie's Indian Cookery by Sameen Rushdie; Salman Rushdie (Foreword by)
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Category: Food | Series: Picador Cookstr Classics Ser.
Drawing together the traditional recipes from different Indian cuisines, Sameen Rushdie's invitation to share in the pleasures of Indian cookery is irresistible.In Hindustani a good cook is one that 'has special taste in their hands', and the author demonstrates her skill, knowledge and love of the food ...Show more
The Confident Cook by Irena Chalmers; Robert Graham Penny (Illustrator); Anne Willan (Foreword by)
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Category: Food | Series: Picador Cookstr Classics Ser.
With a new foreword by Anne WillanAnyone who can understand the reasoning behind basic cooking techniques can become a creative, relaxed, and confident cook. Chalmers takes the would-be chef through how the addition or substitution of a few ingredients can transform a simple dish into a culinary masterp ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2004, a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain There was the soft glare of the flash -- twice -- three times -- a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot ...Show more
The South: Picador Classic by Colm Toibin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Roy Foster A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has ...Show more
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
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Category: Politics | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Rory Stewart Winner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history. All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in existen ...Show more
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