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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Picador classics
I was used to my mind being my best friend. Now, all of a sudden, my mind had turned on me: it mocked me for my vapid enthusiasms; it laughed at all of my foolish plans; it no longer found anything interesting or enjoyable or worthwhile. Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on man ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
$21.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Anne EnrightShortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.As ...Show more
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can ...Show more
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Modern Classics Ser.
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of the ...Show more
Jesus' Son : Stories by Denis Johnson
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Modern Classics
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Colm Toibin 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH EXTRA MATERIAL Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize, a dark and unsettling crime classic. Frederick Charles St John Vanderveld Montgomery. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Don't make me laugh. F ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
$19.98 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 South: Picador Classic by Colm Toibin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Roy Foster A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel 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 ...Show more
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Modern Classics Ser.
"These pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers " - Metro"Bought together or separately, these fiction titles are ideal stocking stuffers for the literature lover." - USA TodayThe national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage ...Show more
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but w ...Show more