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Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano; Virginia Jewiss (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Misha Glenny. Since Gomorrah was first published in Italy in 2006, Roberto Saviano has received death threats and he has been assigned police protection. A ground-breaking study and a searing expose, Gomorrah is the astonishing true story of the renowned crime organization, the ...Show more
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
16.00 AUD
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
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
21.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features i ...Show more
I Heard the Owl Call My Name [Picador Classic] by Margaret Craven
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by author Cynan Jones Amid the grandeur of British Columbia stands the village of Kingcome, a place of salmon runs and ancient totems. Yet in this Eden of such natural beauty and richness, the old culture is under attack - slowly being replaced by prefab houses and alcoholism. Into ...Show more
In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Anne EnrightBefore the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the p ...Show more
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by editor and author Robert McCrum. Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply u ...Show more
India - An Area of Darkness, India: a Wounded Civilization and India: a Million Mutinies Now by V.s. Naipaul
34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar.V.S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. He returned in 2015 at eighty-two. The intervening years and visits sparked by an inquisitiveness about a country he had never seen but had been a dream of his since childh ...Show more
India: Picador Classic by V. S. Naipaul
34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction from Paul Theroux V.S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. His most recent visit was in 2015 at eighty-two. The intervening years and visits sparked by an inquisitiveness about a country he had never seen but had been a dream of his since childhood have resulted in t ...Show more
Into the Wild: Picador Classic by Jon Krakauer
19.99 AUD
Category: Sport | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by novelist David Vann Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.Internationally bestselling author and mountaineer J ...Show more
King Leopold's Ghost - A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo R ...Show more
King of the World: Muhammad Ali by David Remnick
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Category: Sport | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Salman RushdieWith a new afterword by the authorIt was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell.When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s ...Show more
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
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 done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeit ...Show more