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A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas: Picador Classic by V. S. Naipaul
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
'A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion.' - Anthony Burgess A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the 'wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a ba ...Show more
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by editor and author Robert McCrum. Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply u ...Show more
Soft City: Picador Classic by Jonathan Raban
$16.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Iain Sinclair In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and renewing ourselves, carving out journeys, creating private spaces. But in the city we are also afraid of being alone, clinging to the structures of daily life to ward off the chaos around us. How is it that the noi ...Show more
The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JONATHAN COE An extraordinary post-modern detective novel from an author who remained a mystery for decades, now relaunched as a Picador Classic. 1930s King's Cross, London. When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film studio ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
$25.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2004, 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 as a blot ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent. - Daily TelegraphThe Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. With an introduction by novelist John Banville. A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly fo ...Show more
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
I had attached myself to the birds. I couldn't move on until the birds moved on, and the birds couldn't move on without the spring. One winter, after an enforced period of recuperation, William Fiennes finds himself restless and yearning for adventure. He travels to Texas, where he begins a quest to tra ...Show more
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