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Dirt Music (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Tim Winton

$19.99 – Paperback book / Picador

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into d... Buy or find out more 


All The Pretty Horses (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Cormac McCarthy

$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan

John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a th... Buy or find out more 



The Line Of Beauty (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Alan Hollinghurst

$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan

Starting at the moment The Swimming-Pool Library ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, it is a major work by one ... Buy or find out more 


Everyman's Rules For Scientific Living (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Carrie Tiffany

$22.95 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

It is 1943; billowing dust and information, the government 'Better Farming Train' slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land.

The train is on a crusad... Buy or find out more 



That Deadman Dance (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Kim Scott

$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance, but with him it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together...

Told through the... Buy or find out more 


The Lovely Bones (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Alice Sebold

$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him ... Buy or find out more 



American Psycho (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Bret Easton Ellis

$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan

An international bestseller and true modern classic

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collisi... Buy or find out more 


Room (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Emma Donoghue

$19.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan

The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world.

Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too... Buy or find out more 



Mother's Milk (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Edward St Aubyn

$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan

The novel's perspective ricochets among all members of the Melrose family – the family featured in St Aubyn's praised trilogy, Some Hope – starting with Robert, who provides an exceptionally droll and compelling account ... Buy or find out more 


The Savage Detectives (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Roberto Bolano

$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Bolano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who d... Buy or find out more 



Bridget Jones's Diary (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Helen Fielding

$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan

In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and Fat units 3457 (approx.... Buy or find out more 


White Noise (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Don DeLillo

$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan

Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a rail car releases an 'Airborne ... Buy or find out more 



The Sea (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
John Banville

$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan

When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.

The Grace family had appeared that long-ago s... Buy or find out more 


Last Orders (Picador 40th Birthday Edition)
Graham Swift

$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan

Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the... Buy or find out more 



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