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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | 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 Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSIf a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to a ...Show more
The Master by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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 People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
A strikingly original first novel, from the author of A Little Life.'The world Yanagihara conjures up, full of dark pockets of mystery, is magical.' - The TimesIn 1950 Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he enco ...Show more
The Psychopath Test - A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Picador Collection
The Sunday Times bestseller - now with a new introdution and part of the Picador Collection'The belly laughs come thick and fast' - The Observer_____What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the worl ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Picador Collection
<b>The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville.</b> In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing ...Show more
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
From the New York Times bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho--a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a romantic triangle. * "An e ...Show more
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
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Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Collection
Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counter ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten - Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Picador Collection
Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chem ...Show more
Underworld by Don DeLillo
$26.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side of the planet, another highly significant shot was fired: the USSR's first atomic detonation. And so beg ...Show more
White Noise by Don DeLillo
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the ...Show more