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The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: near fine
With an introduction by Simon Callow Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius. Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And wha ...Show more
The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by James Naughtie Take a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That's your problem-solving system ...But haven't we tried all that? Howard Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marr ...Show more
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
"My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can't but write it in the present tense." Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family ...Show more
The Little Prince (Picador Classic) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Kate MosseTranslated by Ros SchwartzAll grown-ups were children once (but most of them have forgotten).A pilot who has crash landed in the desert awakes to see an extraordinary little boy. 'Please,' asks the stranger, 'will you draw me a little lamb!' Baffled by the little prince ...Show more
The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Hilary Mantel.One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even things up: or if such notions ever occurred to him, he would have observed them with detached ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology and Self-help | 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)
$22.99 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 Road by Cormac McCarthy
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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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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