Picador Classic
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
A story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of a family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define, shape, scar and heal them
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Four Letters Of Love
A life-affirming tribute to human folly, to fate, and to the miracle of love.
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Lovely Bones
A haunting and heartbreaking novel narrated from heaven as a young girl watches over her family and killer.
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Woman Warrior
A seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity
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South
Colm Tóibín's debut novel The South, is a classic novel of art, sacrifice, and courage.
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My Year Off
A heart-warming, compassionate book about sudden illness and love under pressure
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If The Spirit Moves You
A poignant and uplifting memoir of life and love after death
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Drowned Book
Picador's second collection from one of the finest English poets of the last fifty years
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Emperor's Children
In the glittering tradition of Edith Wharton, The Emperor's Children examines life in upper-crust Manhattan, and tells a compelling story of ambition, vanity and tragedy
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Liars' Club
The international bestseller from a prize-winning poet and critic
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King of the World
A hugely literate, intelligent evocation of the great heavyweight champion and sportsman of the twentieth century.
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Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's multi-million copy bestseller in a Picador Classic edition, translated by Ros Schwartz, with an introduction by Kate Mosse.
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Long View
From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, this is a profound, heartbreaking portrait of a marriage at its end.
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Genius of Shakespeare
Ambitious, exceptionally well informed and immensely engaging . . . Bate writes with unflagging energy, intelligence, with and enthusiasm' Daily Telegraph
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Psalm Killer
One of the most compelling, haunting and original thrillers I have ever read, by one of Britain's most visionary writers and film-makers' David Peace
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Boy's Own Story
Every so often a novel comes along that is so ambitious in its intention and so confident of its voice that it reminds us what a singular and potent thing a novel can be' San Francisco Chronicle
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Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
An extraordinary post-modern detective novel from an author who remained a mystery for decades, now relaunched as a Picador Classic.
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Soft City
One of the classics of travel writing, Soft City is an exploration of the individual's relationship with urban living.
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Man Without Qualities
Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force
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Idea of Perfection
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001, The Idea of Perfection is a witty and tender romance.
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
A classic of Canadian literature and a vivid, moving story of the clash – and coming together – of cultures.
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Dead Girls
Inspired by true events, The Dead Girls is the story of the unexplained deaths of six young prostitutes, buried in the back yard of a small-town brothel.
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Flower Beneath the Foot
A ‘delightfully funny’ novel by ‘our first modernist novelist’ (according Alan Hollinghurst) – the story of a court on the eve of a royal wedding.
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Oreo
A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City.
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Master and Margarita
A fully annotated translation of the most complete text of Bulgakov’s exuberant comic masterpiece.
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Master
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
A fascinating and illuminating look at Proust’s most famous works by renowned philosopher Alain de Botton.
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In a Free State
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971, In a Free State is one of Sir V. S. Naipaul's best-loved works, a story of disenfranchisement and the search for belonging.
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