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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Picador Collection | Reading Level: very good
The million-copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their ...Show more
All The Pretty Horses: The Border Trilogy 1 by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Picador Collection
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful ...Show more
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Picador Collection | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by Philipp Meyer The 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 o ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career. Containing over a hundred essays, this is a definitive guide to twentieth century culture, cataloguing and exploring the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, art ...Show more
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories | Series: Picador Collection
'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black 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 pr ...Show more
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
$28.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: Outdoors | 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
Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | 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
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | 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
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Collection
A dark, nihilistic tale, Cormac McCarthy's second novel Outer Dark sees brother and sister wander separately through a countryside scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers.In an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the beginning of the twentieth century, a woman named Rinthy bears ...Show more
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
$24.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Collection
'Spectacular' - The Sunday Times 'Quartet in Autumn is immeasurably her finest work of fiction' - Evening Standard 'Barbara Pym has a sharp eye for the exact nuances of social behaviour' - The Times Deliciously, blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn is a classic. Part of the P ...Show more
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fantasy & SciFi | Series: Picador Collection
'A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.' - The Guardian With 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 t ...Show more