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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Picador classics
I was used to my mind being my best friend. Now, all of a sudden, my mind had turned on me: it mocked me for my vapid enthusiasms; it laughed at all of my foolish plans; it no longer found anything interesting or enjoyable or worthwhile. Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on man ...Show more
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Anne EnrightShortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.As ...Show more
Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
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Category: International Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Eimear McBride A devastatingly powerful, moving and uplifting memoir - now a classic of its genre - that inspired others to tell their own true life stories When our stepfather staggered home reeking of whisky, ceramic hit the wall. We got used to the smash and the next-day stain ...Show more
The Debt To Pleasure by John Lanchester
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: near fine
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996. Tarquin Winot, voluptuary and supercivilized ironist (and snob), sets out on a journey of the senses from the Hotel Splendide, Portsmouth, to his cottage in Provence, his spiritual home. With his head newly shaved and his well-thumbed copy of the Mossad Ma ...Show more
The Light Years (#1 The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
$18.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Joanna Lumley The Light Years is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling five-part series, 'The Cazalet Chronicles'.Home Place, Sussex, 1937.For two unforgettable summers the Cazalets gathered together, safe from the advancing storm clouds of the Second World War. ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Classic 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
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
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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
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