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Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Collection
In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though ...Show more
Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity.He leaves his band mid-tour and holes up in a dingy, unfurnished apartment in Great Jones Street. Unfortunately, his disappearing act only succee ...Show more
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Collection
Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peak's histor ...Show more
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Picador Collection
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later. In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charit ...Show more
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
With an introduction by Otessa Moshfegh, author of Lapvona.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 become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodime ...Show more
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple - handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Almost at once, however, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful faca ...Show more
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box. He was lost in a haze of booze, drugs and vilification. Then he was given a second chance. This is the life of Bret Easton Ellis, ...Show more
Mao II by Don DeLillo
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut.As Bill enters the world of polit ...Show more
Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Colm Tóibín's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships.Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This ...Show more
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere. She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety of listless and confusing sexual encounters. After her girlfriend cheats on her, Maria stea ...Show more
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
<b>Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, <i>No Country For Old Men</i> is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of <i>The Road</i>.</b> Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone ...Show more
On the Move - A Life by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Picador Collection
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . .From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused wi ...Show more