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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Philipp MeyerThe wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of ...Show more
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason: Picador Classic by Helen Fielding
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by journalist Hadley Freeman9st 2, cigarettes smoked in front of Mark 0 (v.g.), cigarettes smoked in secret 7, cigarettes not smoked 47 (v.g.).Bridget's second diary ushers in a reformed woman. She is no longer a smoker (well, not much), the wilderness years are over, and she is at ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
$20.00 NZD
Category: Wellbeing & Inspiration | 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
I Heard the Owl Call My Name [Picador Classic] by Margaret Craven
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by author Cynan Jones Amid the grandeur of British Columbia stands the village of Kingcome, a place of salmon runs and ancient totems. Yet in this Eden of such natural beauty and richness, the old culture is under attack - slowly being replaced by prefab houses and alcoholism. Into ...Show more
King Leopold's Ghost - A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
$25.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo R ...Show more
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
$35.00 NZD
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 Little Prince (Picador Classic) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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 Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn
$33.00 NZD
Category: 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
$25.00 NZD
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
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