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A Bright Shining Lie - John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION. One of the most acclaimed books of our time--the definitive Vietnam War expos . Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrog ...Show more
A Maggot by John Fowles
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
A MAGGOT is not an historical novel in the normal sense. It began as a quirk or obsession (a 'maggot') in the archaic sense of the word) which found its setting in the second wave of Protestant Dissent in England. It took shape as a mystery - a compelling investigation of unaccountable motives and deeds ...Show more
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
A story of West African politics, entwined with African legends, folk-tales and proverbs.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Una sensacional historia de la esclavitud y el racismo en Estados Unidos. Una madre: Sethe, la esclava que mata a su propia hija para salvarla del horror, para que la indignidad del presente no tenga futuro posible. Una hija: Beloved, la niña que desde su nacimiento se alimentó de leche mezclada con san ...Show more
Black Venus by Angela Carter
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Eight short works of fiction by one of Britain's greatest and most original writers. Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be ca ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in ...Show more
Caracole by Edmund White
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembl ...Show more
Exotic Pleasures by Peter Carey
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire b ...Show more
In the Rainforest by Catherine Caufield
$8.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
Leaf Storm by Gabriel García Márquez
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel Leaf Storm. 'Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of the town, the banana co ...Show more
Love And War In The Apennines by Eric Newby
$6.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
After the Italian Armistice in 1943, Eric Newby left the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year and evaded the advancing Germans by going to ground high in the mountains and forests south of the River Po. In strange isolation he was sheltered and protected for over three months by an informal ne ...Show more