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The Picador Collection is a series designed to showcase the best of modern literature.
John Banville
Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize
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Colm Toibin
A stunning collection of nine stories that teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.
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A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.
Colm Tóibín’s The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland’s high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least…
Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family.
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Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the Falklands War is fought…
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Kay Redfield Jamison
A definitive examination of manic depression.
Jim Crace
Jim Crace's Booker-shortlisted masterpiece.
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Shusaku Endo, William Johnstone (trans.)
Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed novel.
Percival Everett
Percival Everett's deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a gorgeous novel.
A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of The Trees and James.
An arresting story of parental love, loss and grief from one of America's finest writers.
A surrealist exploration of truth, fiction, and narrative itself, from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure.
A brilliant satire of mistaken identity, race and class in America.
A brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America's most inventive living writers.
Rebecca Skloot
The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever . . .
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Ted Chiang
The debut collection of short fiction from science fiction legend Ted Chiang, including the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film Arrival.
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Alain de Botton
The classic book on love by the bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy.
Jon Krakauer
What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life?
Jon Krakauer's acclaimed account of a disastrous expedition on Mt Everest.
Oliver Sacks
The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
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The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Musicophilia.
This study of migraines has been revised and expanded to include discussion of newly-developed drug therapies and non-drug approaches. Dr Sachs draws on advances in chaos theory and neural stimulation…
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2015 –Title page verso.
An account of victims of a decades-long sleeping sickness who were awoken to a new life by use of the drug L-dopa.
A million-copy bestseller by the twentieth century’s greatest neurologist.
Cormac McCarthy
‘The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature’ Guardian
Brutal and disturbing, this is a novel that examines the darkest shades of human experience with dignity and grace.
Alone and exiled on a dilapidated houseboat, a man named Suttree lives amongst the outcasts of humanity. From Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and All the…
Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
A dazzling, dashing collection from the 2009-2019 Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom reissued in the Picador Collection.
A unique collection of feminist poems from the former Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology, reissued as part…
Hanya Yanagihara
The extraordinary first novel by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon that is A Little Life.
Lucia Berlin
This collection of raw and remarkable short fiction saw Lucia Berlin, little known in her lifetime, finally become lauded as an important figure in American letters
Alan Hollinghurst
The Sparsholt Affair is the long-awaited sixth novel from the supreme stylist of British fiction and previous winner of the Man Booker Prize. From Oxford during the dark days of…
The No.1 bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery…
Jon Ronson
This bestselling collection of mini adventure stories showcases the very best of Jon Ronson's writings from the fringes of society.
The brilliant Jon Ronson takes an hilarious and troubling journey into the world of extremists.
Emma Donoghue
From the bestselling author of Room, a gripping and deeply moving story of progress and reaction, of evil and love.
Emily St. John Mandel
An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse.
Don DeLillo
A brilliantly black and funny novel from the highly acclaimed author of Underworld.
Jackie Kay
A memoir and soul-searching journey by Jackie Kay.
Jamaica Kincaid
The first short-story collection from Jamaica Kincaid, this is a stunning evocation of life as a young Afro-Caribbean woman.
The classic coming-of-age story of a precocious young girl’s deteriorating relationship with her mother, as she enters adolescence and leaves her childhood behind on the idyllic island of Antigua.
Poetic, stirring, and disturbing, this novel is a powerful and unforgettable statement of one woman’s struggle for identity against a hostile backdrop of sexism and colonialism.
Imogen Binnie
The cult classic that inspired the new wave of transgender fiction - widely available in Australia for the first time.
A classic coming-of-age story from Jamaica Kincaid, following a young woman as she enters adulthood against the backdrop of a strange and unfamiliar country.
Bret Easton Ellis
The author of American Psycho rips into his most frightening subject yet: himself.
