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Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
$19.98 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | 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
Oreo by Fran Ross
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James 'A rollicking little masterpiece . . . one of the most delightful, hilarious, intelligent novels I've stumbled across in recent years' Paul Auster Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandpare ...Show more
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
$18.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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 Dead Girls by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
$18.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Colm TóibínIn 1960s Central Mexico, two sisters, Delfina and María de Jesús González, known as 'Las Poquianchis', run a small-town brothel. Kidnapped, drugged and beaten, their young workers are desperate for escape. The Dead Girls is the discovery of these ...Show more
The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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 Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a Record of the Early Life of St. Laura de Nazianzi by Ronald Firbank
$18.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Alan HollinghurstNeither her Gaudiness the Mistress of the Robes, or her Dreaminess the Queen were feeling quite themselves. In the Palace all was speculation . . .Ronald Firbank, described by Alan Hollinghurst as 'one of the most important figures in British fiction in the twent ...Show more
The Hiding Place - Picador Classic by Trezza Azzopardi
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
This brilliant first novel is set in the Maltese community of Tiger Bay in Cardiff where the author grew up. Dolores, the narrator, tells the story of her childhood - her father, Frankie, a compulsive gambler who, due to a misunderstanding at the moment of her birth (he is convinced that his wife will f ...Show more
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
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Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
"My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can't but write it in the present tense." Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family ...Show more
The Light Years (#1 The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
$18.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Joanna Lumley The Light Years is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling five-part series, 'The Cazalet Chronicles'.Home Place, Sussex, 1937.For two unforgettable summers the Cazalets gathered together, safe from the advancing storm clouds of the Second World War. ...Show more
The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Hilary Mantel.One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even things up: or if such notions ever occurred to him, he would have observed them with detached ...Show more
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
$21.99 AUD
Category: General 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