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Uncle Tungsten - Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Collection
Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chem ...Show more
Underworld by Don DeLillo
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side of the planet, another highly significant shot was fired: the USSR's first atomic detonation. And so beg ...Show more
White Noise by Don DeLillo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the ...Show more