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The Crystal Bucket - Television Criticism from the Observer, 1976-79 by Clive James
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Critic of the Year, British Press Awards 1981His contribution to the art and enjoyment of TV criticism over the past ten years has been immense. His work is deeply perceptive, often outrageously funny and always compulsively readable' Thus the judges of the British Press Awards, in naming Clive James Cr ...Show more
The Jaguar Smile - A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Travel | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986. What he discovered was overwhelming- a land o ...Show more
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careenedthrough the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of A ...Show more
The Madwoman's Underclothes by Germaine Greer
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Category: Essays | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William t ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: Travel | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life. The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and ...Show more
The Torch in My Ear by Elias Canetti; J. Neugroschel (Translator)
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Category: Literary biography | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Here is the final novel of Burroughs' Red Night trilogy, available in audio for the first time.A fascinating mix of autobiographical episodes and extraordinary Egyptian theology, Burroughs' final novel is poignant and melancholic. Blending war films and pornography, and referencing Kafka and Mailer, The ...Show more
Travels In Hyper-Reality by Umberto Eco
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Category: Essays | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
A "scintillating collection" of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault's Pendulum (Los Angeles Times). Collected here are some of Umberto Eco's finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless intellectual ...Show more
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
"Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain. Although Utz is permitted to leave the cou ...Show more
Vedi by Ved Mehta
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Category: Literary biography | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
The author describes his life in India as a young child and his education at the Dadar School for the Blind.