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All The Pretty Horses: The Border Trilogy 1 by Cormac McCarthy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful ...Show more
Among Flowers by Jamaica Kincaid
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksIn this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardeni ...Show more
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's shadow.When sh ...Show more
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid's first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and 1982, including the seminal 'Girl', these stunning ...Show more
Cities of the Plain (Border Trilogy #3) by Cormac McCarthy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
In<i> Cities of the Plain</i>, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of <i>All the Pretty Horses</i> and <i>The Crossing</i> now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, ...Show more
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple - handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Almost at once, however, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful faca ...Show more
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
<b>Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, <i>No Country For Old Men</i> is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of <i>The Road</i>.</b> Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone ...Show more
Room by Emma Donoghue
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Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Picador Collection
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key.Jack and Ma are prisoners.'Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days' Audrey Niffenegger'One o ...Show more
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother. Xuela's vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arriva ...Show more
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Toibin's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and ...Show more
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2) by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
<i>The Crossing </i>forms the second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, a story that began with<i> All the Pretty Horses</i> and concludes with <i>Cities of the Plain</i>. Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second Worl ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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