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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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: Classic Fiction | 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
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the ext ...Show more
Cities of the Plain (Border Trilogy #3) by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
In<i> Cities of the Plain</i>, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of <i>All the Pretty Horses</i> and <i>The Crossing</i> now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, ...Show more
Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic 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
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic 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
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic 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
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non 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
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic 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
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | 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
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
$22.99 NZD
Category: Non 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 Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2) by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic 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