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Quarantine by Jim Crace
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
*Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award**Shortlisted for the Booker Prize*'Dazzling, gritty brilliance' - Sunday Times'Completely captivating' - Literary ReviewJim Crace's provocative retelling of Jesus' forty day fast in the desert is a classic that tampers with tradition. Moving and fascinating in equal ...Show more
Silence by Shusaku Endo; William Johnston (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Collection
'Flawless' - David Mitchell'A masterpiece' - Daily TelegraphWinner of the Tanizaki PrizePublished in 1967 in Japan to huge controversy, Silence is Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed novel and a classic of its genre.Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, sets sail ...Show more
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Picador Collection
'A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.' - The GuardianWith Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful debut collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably varied stories.From a soaring Babylonian tow ...Show more
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
In this semi-autobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. Suttree is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and Blood Meridian.'Suttree contains a humour that is Fa ...Show more
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother. Xuela's vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arriva ...Show more
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Toibin's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and ...Show more
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2) by Cormac McCarthy
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
<i>The Crossing </i>forms the second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, a story that began with<i> All the Pretty Horses</i> and concludes with <i>Cities of the Plain</i>. Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second Worl ...Show more
The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland's high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, his own childhood.The life he has built for himself, between his work in Dublin and his family's retreat by the sea at Cush, is ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Picador Collection
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman's cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne.'No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.' - H ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is 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 ...Show more
The Master by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Toibin captures ...Show more
The Names by Don DeLillo
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton ...Show more