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A House for Mr Biswas: Picador Classic by V. S. Naipaul
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
'A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion.' - Anthony Burgess A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the 'wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a ba ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron. In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madne ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
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Category: No Category | 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
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
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Category: Philosophy | 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
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
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Category: Philosophy | 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
In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Anne EnrightBefore the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the p ...Show more
India: Picador Classic by V. S. Naipaul
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Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction from Paul Theroux V.S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. His most recent visit was in 2015 at eighty-two. The intervening years and visits sparked by an inquisitiveness about a country he had never seen but had been a dream of his since childhood have resulted in t ...Show more
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeit ...Show more
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Psychology | 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
The Discovery of France: Picador Classic by Graham Robb
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Category: History | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Colm TóibínTen years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority . . .France is a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. And yet the notion of 'the French' as one nation is relatively rece ...Show more
The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
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Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by James Naughtie Take a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That's your problem-solving system ...But haven't we tried all that? Howard Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marr ...Show more
The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Category: Fiction | 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