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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Philipp MeyerThe wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of ...Show more
Diary of a Genius by Salvador Dalí
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Ser.
One of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador Dali, the eccentric polymath genius who became the living embodiment of the 20th century's most intensely subversive, disturbing and influential art movement.
From First to Last by Damon Runyon
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Ser.
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Ser.
Two years after the war, the heroine of Caroline Blackwood's partially autobiographical novel is sent to convalesce from a minor operation at her Great Granny Webster's house in Brighton. But the only sea air she experiences are the drafts that creep into the house where she is required to sit quietly w ...Show more
Great Works of Jewish Fantasy by Joachim Neugroschel (ed.)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Ser. | Reading Level: very good
I Came, I Saw by Norman Lewis
$35.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Travel Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Poignant tales from the renowned travel writer's formative yearsIn over six decades as a travel writer, Norman Lewis earned acclaim for his vivid chronicles of life around the globe. In I Came, I Saw, Lewis turns his pen on his own life in an affecting, comical, and always-thoughtful autobiography. He s ...Show more
Oreo by Fran Ross
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James 'A rollicking little masterpiece . . . one of the most delightful, hilarious, intelligent novels I've stumbled across in recent years' Paul Auster Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandpare ...Show more
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
$45.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Ser.
"A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force." -- San Francisco Examiner The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy. When her ex ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$30.00 AUD
Category: PSYCHOLOGY | 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 and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; Diana Lewis Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translators)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts—one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow—the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a ...Show more
Victoria by Knut Hamsun
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Ser.
The Nobel Prize winner's poetic, psychologically intense portrayal of love's predicament in a class-bound society A Penguin Classic Set in a coastal village of late nineteenth-century Norway, Victoria follows two lovers whose yearnings are as powerful as the circumstances that conspire to thwart their r ...Show more
Weymouth Sands by John Cowper Powys
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Ser.
Along with Wolf Solen,' 'A Glastonbury Romance,' and 'Maiden Castle,' this modern classic originally published in 1934, forms the quartet that 'are just about the only novels produced by an English writer that can be fairly compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.' (George Steiner). 'To en ...Show more
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