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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman's cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne.'No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.' - H ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is 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 ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSIf a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to a ...Show more
The Names by Don DeLillo
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Picador Collection
Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton ...Show more
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
A strikingly original first novel, from the author of A Little Life.'The world Yanagihara conjures up, full of dark pockets of mystery, is magical.' - The TimesIn 1950 Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he enco ...Show more
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Picador Collection
The Sunday Times bestseller - now with a new introdution and part of the Picador Collection'The belly laughs come thick and fast' - The Observer_____What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the worl ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
<b>The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville.</b> In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing ...Show more
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
From the New York Times bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho--a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a romantic triangle. * "An e ...Show more
The Sea by John Banville
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' - Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005The Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss.When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a chi ...Show more
The South by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning tale 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 dared to leave her family in Ireland ...Show more
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst' -- EsquireFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly novel that spans seven transformative decades as it plumbs the complex relationships of a remarkable family.In October 19 ...Show more
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Now a major Netflix film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh.'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' - Stephen King'Powerful, compulsively readable' - The Irish TimesEleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, ...Show more