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King Leopold's Ghost - A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo R ...Show more
King of the World: Muhammad Ali by David Remnick
$24.99 NZD
Category: Sport | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Salman RushdieWith a new afterword by the authorIt was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell.When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s ...Show more
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | 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
My Year off : Rediscovering Life After a Stroke by Robert McCrum
$14.99 NZD
$24.99 (40% off)
Category: Discounted Non-Fiction (selected titles) at 40% off RRP | Series: Picador Classic
"My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?" Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaire ...Show more
Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Eimear McBride A devastatingly powerful, moving and uplifting memoir - now a classic of its genre - that inspired others to tell their own true life stories When our stepfather staggered home reeking of whisky, ceramic hit the wall. We got used to the smash and the next-day stain ...Show more
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem - loneliness. With delightful humour, Pym takes us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements; and, perhaps most keenly felt, their worries about having ...Show more
Room by Emma Donoghue
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by John Boyne. Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five, abracadabra. Jack lives with his Ma in Room. Room has a single locked door and a skylight, and it measures ten feet by ten feet. Jack loves wat ...Show more
Silence by Shusaku Endo
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And I keep turning over in my mind the thought that I am at the end of the earth, in a place which you do not know and which your whole lives through you will never visit. It is 1640 and Father Sebastian Rodr ...Show more
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by novelist Rachel KushnerIn the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, and their own coming-of-age stories. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole's search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand and an ill-fated r ...Show more
The Discovery of France: Picador Classic by Graham Robb
$27.99 NZD
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 Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff. Taking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself ...Show more
The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: near fine
With an introduction by Simon Callow Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius. Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And wha ...Show more