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(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Hawthornden Prize. I had attached myself to the birds. I couldn't move on until the birds moved on, and the birds couldn't move on without the spring. One winter, after an enforced period of recuperation, William Fiennes finds himself restless and yearning for adventure. He travels to Texas, where he begins a quest to trace the million-strong flocks of snow geese making their spring flight thousands of miles north to the Arctic tundra. On his epic journey he meets people from every walk of life, from ex-nuns to train fanatics, and their stories resound with the longing to arrive at the right place in the world. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Hawthornden Prize, The Snow Geese is a poignant and lyrical paean to the richness and wonder of the world around us. A unique blend of autobiography, travel and nature writing, this is a classic tale of belonging and the inescapable lure of home. Format:Paperback Pages:256
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(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) With an introduction by Jeanette Winterson This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology. Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counterpart's shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection. Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit, The World's Wife is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best. Format:Paperback Pages:96
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This comprehensive anthology of modern indian writing covering about 150yrs shatters many illusions about the literature bringing forth the most engaging writers
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(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 7-10 working days once ordered) With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who can no longer recognize everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities; who have been dismissed as autistic or retarded, yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human. A provocative exploration of the mysteries of the human mind, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a million-copy bestseller by the twentieth century's greatest neurologist. Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Author(s): Salman Rushdie Title: Midnight's Children ISBN: 0 330 26714 0 Publisher: Picador This Edition: Picador edition of 1982, 2nd printing Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 1981 (Jonathan Cape) Binding: paperback Number of pages: 462 Weight: 320g Condition: Good
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Author(s): Salman Rushdie Title: Midnight's Children ISBN: 0 330 26714 0 Publisher: Picador This Edition: Picador paperback edition of 1982, 2nd printing Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 1981 (Jonathan Cape) Binding: paperback Number of pages: 463 Weight: 318g Condition: Cover has some very minor wear, and staining at the back. Pages have a little foxing; otherwise fine
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Author(s): Christopher Hop Title: Me, The Moon and Elvis Presley ISBN: 0 330 35473 6 Publisher: Picador This Edition: Picador paperback edition 1999 Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 1997 (Macmillan) Binding: paperback Number of pages: 263 Weight: 178g Condition: Cover has a little wear, all else good
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Author(s): Joe Treasure Title: Besotted ISBN: 978 0 330 44898 7 Publisher: Picador This Edition: Picador paperback edition of 2011 Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 2010 Binding: paperback Number of pages: 263 Weight: 221g Condition: Excellent
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Author(s): Julian Barnes Title: Cross Channel ISBN: 0 330 34916 3 Publisher/place: Picador, London This Edition: Picador edition of 1996, 4th printing First Published: 1995 (Jonathan Cape, London) Binding: paperback Number of pages: 211 Weight: 116g Condition: Very good Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.
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Author(s): Clive James Title: Unreliable Memoirs ISBN: 0 330 26463 X Publisher: Picador This Edition: Picador edition of 1981, 44th printing Year of Publication: not indicated Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 1980 (Jonathan Cape) Binding: paperback Number of pages: 175 Weight: 131g Condition: Excellent
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Author(s): V.S. Naipaul Title: Half a Life ISBN: 0 330 48518 0 Publisher: Picador This Edition: Picador paperback edition 2001 Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 2001 Binding: paperback Number of pages: 228 Weight: 285g Condition: Excellent Please see pictures below, as these form part of the description.
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Author(s): Brett Easton Ellis Title: Lunar Park ISBN: 0 330 44001 2 Publisher/place: Picador, London This Edition: Picador edition of 2006 First Published: 2005 (Alfred A. Knopf, New York) Binding: paperback Number of pages: 453 Weight: 307g Condition: The last few pages have some wrinkling from water exposure; otherwise good Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.
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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Filmed for Sky Atlantic, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Patrick Melrose Novels is the complete collection of Edward St Aubyn's award-winning novels of childhood trauma and aristocratic decadence. This Picador Classics edition features an introduction by author Zadie Smith. Patrick slid back down in his chair and sprawled in front of the view. He noticed how his tears cooled as they ran down his cheeks. Washed eyes and a tired and empty feeling. Was that what other people meant by peaceful? Collected here together in a single volume are the complete Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn, Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, and At Last. Acclaimed for their searing wit and their deep humanity, this magnificent cycle of novels - in which Patrick Melrose battles to survive the savageries of his childhood and lead a self-determined life - is one of the major achievements in English fiction. Features Summary The dark but witty The Patrick Melrose Novels charts the life story of the highly dysfunctional, upper-class Patrick, together in one volume Author Edward St.Aubyn Publisher Picador Release date 20160616 Pages 874 ISBN 1-4472-5352-3 ISBN 13 978-1-4472-5352-5
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Author(s): Arturo Perez-Reverte [translated by Andrew Hurley] Title: The Queen of the South ISBN: 0 330 41312 0 Publisher: Picador This Edition: Picador paperback edition Year of Publication: 2004 Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 2004 (GP Putnam's) Binding: paperback Number of pages: 436 Weight: 566g Condition: Cover has a slight bit of wear, otherwise very good. -has some old price stickers on the back
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Author(s): E.L. Doctorow Title: Ragtime ISBN: 0 330 28849 0 Publisher/place: Picador, London This Edition: Picador edition of 1985, 18th printing First Published: 1975 (USA) Binding: paperback Number of pages: 235 Weight: 160g Condition: Very good Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.
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Hardback. English. Publisher: Picador. 2005. In good condition. He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box. He was lost in a haze of booze, drugs and vilification. Then he was given a second chance. This is the life of Bret Easton Ellis, the subject of this remarkable novel.""
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Author(s): Graham Swift Title: Waterland ISBN: 0 330 33632 0 Publisher: Picador This Edition: Revised edition Year of Publication: 1992 Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 1983 Binding: paperback Dustjacket: n/a Number of pages: 358 Weight: 244g Condition: Fair to good
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THE VOICE OF MODERN HATRED - Nicholas Fraser Picador 2000. 160x240mm. 327p. Hard cover book with dust jacket in very fine condition. Postage and Packaging R25.
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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer - and occult disciple - Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever. 1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts - and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse. But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties - to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself. Features Summary 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer - and occult disciple - Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton... Author China Mieville Publisher Picador Release date 20160829 Pages 205 ISBN 1-4472-9657-5 ISBN 13 978-1-4472-9657-7
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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days How far would you go for your children? Would you lie for them? Flee with them? Let someone else mother them if you thought they would do a better job? As a single parent, Letty does everything for her two children - apart from raise them. Being a mother terrifies her more than she can admit, and so she's always let her mother take that role. When Maria Elena ups and leaves, however, Letty has to confront her fears and become the parent she doesn't think she can be. Even as she tries to give her children a future, Letty's teenage son, Alex, struggles to forgive his mother for choices she made in the past. But he and Letty are not so dissimilar, and both are prepared to risk everything for those they love. Honest and compelling, We Never Asked for Wings is about family; it's about the decisions we take, the mistakes we make, the people we trust, and, above all, how - and where - we find love. Features Summary How far would you go for your children? Would you lie for them? Flee with them? Let someone else mother them if you thought they would do a better job? Author Vanessa Diffenbaugh Publisher Picador Release date 20160611 Pages 387 ISBN 1-4472-9451-3 ISBN 13 978-1-4472-9451-1
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Diary of an Amateur Photographer Rawle, G. ISBN 10: 0330354868 ISBN 13: 9780330354868 Item Description: Picador, London & Basingstoke, 1998. First Edition. Quarto. Unread copy in lovely condition with untouched envelope on the rear paste-down. Zaney, crime fiction illustrated with many photographic clues. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Laminated Pictorial Boards. Jacket: No Jacket - As Published. Bookseller Inventory # 00085 Tall Stories Price: R 145.00 Ordinary postage within South Africa: R 45.00
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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours Without much fanfare Ahmed Kathrada worked alongside Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and other giants in the struggle to end racial discrimination in South Africa. He faced house arrest and many court trials related to his activism until, finally, a trial for sabotage saw him sentenced to life imprisonment alongside Mandela and six others. Conversations with a Gentle Soul has its origins in a series of discussions between Kathrada and Sahm Venter about his opinions, encounters and experiences. Throughout his life, Kathrada has refused to hang on to negative emotions such as hatred and bitterness. Instead, he radiates contentment and the openness of a man at peace with himself. His wisdom is packaged within layers of optimism, mischievousness and humour, and he provides insights that are of value to all South Africans. Features Summary Without much fanfare Ahmed Kathrada worked alongside Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and other giants in the struggle to end racial discrimination in South Africa... Author Ahmed Kathrada (Author), Sahm Venter (Author) Publisher Picador Africa Release date 20170127 Pages 274 ISBN 1-77010-540-9 ISBN 13 978-1-77010-540-9
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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Set fifteen years after the seismic events of Brilliance of the Moon, The Harsh Cry of the Heron is an elegaic and bittersweet successor to the bestselling series by Lian Hearn, Tales of the Otori. 'Their realm is held in balance by their union...Break that union and the Three Countries will fall apart.' Otori Takeo and Kaede have ruled the Three Countries peacefully for over sixteen years, following the events laid out in the epic Tales of the Otori. They have three daughters: Shigeko, fifteen years old and heir to the Otori, and Maya and Miki, thirteen-year-old twins who have inherited the supernatural skills of their father. Kaede knows nothing of the prophecy that Takeo will die at the hands of his son and longs to give him a male child. Nor does she know of the boy he fathered sixteen years ago - a boy whose heart is filled with hatred and whose skills as a Ghostmaster give him the power to incite the dead. Takeo is determined that clan conflicts will never again ravage the Three Countries, but warriors are born to fight: the warlord Arai Zenko has deadly ambitions, the Emperor himself has challenged Takeo's rule and, despite a delicate truce between the deadly Tribe and the Otori, revenge still eats at the heart of renegade leader Kikuta Akio...Against these gathering threats Takeo draws strength from his love for Kaede, but even this is not beyond the reach of their enemies... Features Summary Set fifteen years after the seismic events of Brilliance of the Moon, The Harsh Cry of the Heron is an elegaic and bittersweet successor to the bestselling series by Lian Hearn... Author Lian Hearn Publisher Picador Release date 20170325 Pages 640 ISBN 1-5098-3779-5 ISBN 13 978-1-5098-3779-3
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Paperback. English. Picador. 1985. ISBN: 9780330288125. In fair condition. First published in the Catalan language in Valencia in 1490, Tirant lo Blanc ('The White Tyrant') is a sweeping epic of chivalry and high adventure. With great precision and verve, Martorell narrates land and sea battles, duels, hunts, banquets, political maneuverings, and romantic conquests. Reviewing the first modern Spanish translation in 1969 (Franco had ruthlessly suppressed the Catalan language and literature), Mario Vargas Llosa hailed the epic's author as 'the first of that lineage of God-supplanters--Fielding, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Joyce, Faulkner--who try to create in their novels an all-encompassing reality.'
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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Dying in New York is the haunting story of Lerato Malema, a young and irrepressible South African whose wit and resilience shine through despite the abuse she has endured from before the age of twelve at the hands of her father, Thabo. The narrative opens in a psychiatrists office overlooking the Hudson River. Against a backdrop of the magnificent Manhattan skyline, Lerato paints an absorbing picture of her decade-long journey from Johannesburg to the United States. Her story transitions seamlessly from the sessions with Dr Evelyn Webber, her psychiatrist, to her escape from an abusive home and her experiences of the underbelly of modern South Africa. At its heart, Dying in New York is a story of hope and deep longing, made all the more poignant by Leratos startling candour from the first page until the books surprising conclusion. Features Summary Dying in New York is the haunting story of Lerato Malema, a young and irrepressible South African whose wit and resilience shine through despite the abuse she has endured from before the age of twelve at the hands of her father... Author Ekow Duker Publisher Picador Africa Release date 20140730 Pages 248 ISBN 1-77010-392-9 ISBN 13 978-1-77010-392-4
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Paperback. English. Picador. 2012. ISBN:. 384pp. In fair condition. When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let
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