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The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by novelist Rachel KushnerIn the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, and their own coming-of-age stories. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole's search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand and an ill-fated r ...Show more
The City and the City by China Mieville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, tha ...Show more
The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JONATHAN COE An extraordinary post-modern detective novel from an author who remained a mystery for decades, now relaunched as a Picador Classic. 1930s King's Cross, London. When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film studio ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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 Little Prince (Picador Classic) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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 Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. If 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 t ...Show more
The Master by Colm Tóibín (Toibin)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; Diana Lewis Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translators)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts—one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow—the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a ...Show more
The Psalm Killer by Chris Petit
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Alan Moore It was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of city wasteland - those derelict spaces once described to him by a child as the blank bits where things had been before they'd got blown up. It is 1985 and a killer moves through Belfas ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Andrew O'Hagan - a father - and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in th ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Fiction | 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
The Sculptress by Minette Walters; Stephanie Merritt (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
This Picador Classic edition of Minette Walters' The Sculptress features an introduction by Stephanie Merritt, journalist and author of While You Sleep. 'It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed . . . Olive Martin is a dangerous woman. I advise you to be extremely wary in ...Show more