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A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
Lucky by Alice Sebold
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by the author of Circe and The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller In Lucky, a memoir long-hailed for its blistering honesty and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was irrevocably changed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was raped and beaten inside a tunnel near ...Show more
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
19.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by neuroscientist Daniel GlaserThe late Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds.Musicophilia is no different. In this breathtaking work, Sacks examines the power ...Show more
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff. Taking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself ...Show more
The Little Prince (Picador Classic) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Kate MosseTranslated by Ros SchwartzAll grown-ups were children once (but most of them have forgotten).A pilot who has crash landed in the desert awakes to see an extraordinary little boy. 'Please,' asks the stranger, 'will you draw me a little lamb!' Baffled by the little prince ...Show more
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she w ...Show more
The Master by Colm Tóibín (Toibin)
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Tessa Hadley In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced ...Show more
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Filmed for Sky Atlantic, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Patrick Melrose Novels is the complete collection of Edward St Aubyn's award-winning novels of childhood trauma and aristocratic decadence. This Picador Classics edition features an introduction by author Zadie Smith.Patrick slid back down in h ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent. - Daily TelegraphThe Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. With an introduction by novelist John Banville. A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly fo ...Show more