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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, a ...Show more
The Master by Colm Tóibín (Toibin)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Tessa Hadley 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 ...Show more
The Piano Tuner (Picador Classic) by Daniel Mason
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Sadie Jones 'Engrossing ...the reader falls under the spell that the author is weaving, surrendering to the story's exotic magic' The Times White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins. One misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 Road by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Andrew O'Hagan - a father - and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in th ...Show more
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
$20.00 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Anthony Quinn In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyone, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it w ...Show more
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but w ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter.' Sunday Times I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me. I ...Show more