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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Category: Biography | 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
Cooking in a Small Kitchen by Arthur Schwartz; Lidia Matticchio Bastianich (Foreword by); Gary Rogers (Illustrator)
Category: Food & Wine | Series: Picador Cookstr Classics Ser.
With a new foreword by Lidia BastianichCooking in a Small Kitchen is a four-star cooking guide that shows you how to cut loose like a cordon bleu chef in a kitchen the size of a closet. If cramped quarters have stifled your menu or limited your company for dinner, Arthur Schwartz, expansive Daily News f ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Category: Military | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Category: Biography | 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
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can ...Show more
Four Letters Of Love by Niall Williams
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by John Hurt A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love In love everything changes, and continues changing all the time. There is no stillness, no stopped clock of the heart in which the moment of happ ...Show more
Giving up the Ghost - A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Modern Classics Ser.
Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world's most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. ...Show more
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Modern Classics Ser.
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of the ...Show more
Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
Category: Accessories | 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
Sameen Rushdie's Indian Cookery by Sameen Rushdie; Salman Rushdie (Foreword by)
Category: Food & Wine | Series: Picador Cookstr Classics Ser.
Drawing together the traditional recipes from different Indian cuisines, Sameen Rushdie's invitation to share in the pleasures of Indian cookery is irresistible.In Hindustani a good cook is one that 'has special taste in their hands', and the author demonstrates her skill, knowledge and love of the food ...Show more
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
Category: Accessories | Series: Picador classics
A novel inspired by the shocking true story of the Scottsboro boys, whose legacy has shaped the course of modern American history Even after all these years, the injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred. Lives splinte ...Show more