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The Picador Collection is a series designed to showcase the best of modern literature.
Don DeLillo
A brilliantly black and funny novel from the highly acclaimed author of Underworld.
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Jackie Kay
A memoir and soul-searching journey by Jackie Kay.
Jamaica Kincaid
Poetic, stirring, and disturbing, this novel is a powerful and unforgettable statement of one woman’s struggle for identity against a hostile backdrop of sexism and colonialism.
Imogen Binnie
The cult classic that inspired the new wave of transgender fiction - widely available in Australia for the first time.
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Bret Easton Ellis
The author of American Psycho rips into his most frightening subject yet: himself.
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Charles Johnson
A lost modern classic, this wildly genre-bending naval adventure is a towering work of American literature and perfect for fans of Colson Whitehead and Marlon James
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Hanya Yanagihara
A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory.
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Cormac McCarthy
A young boy comes of age in the desolate mountains of the Mexican border, in the second volume of Cormac McCarthy’s legendary Border Trilogy
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Set along the familiar bloody frontier of the Border Trilogy, No Country For Old Men portrays a time when drug agents and hit men rule the land. Vivid, thrilling and…
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, The Road tells the story of a father and son as they journey across…
A chaotically violent and hauntingly beautiful novel from one of the greatest American novelists, Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy.
‘One of the greatest American novels of this or any time’ Guardian
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The first short-story collection from Jamaica Kincaid, this is a stunning evocation of life as a young Afro-Caribbean woman.
Clive James
Clive James the essayist and cultural critic at his brilliant best – a dizzyingly erudite tour of twentieth-century culture.
Alan Hollinghurst
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is exquisitely written, wryly funny and powerfully moving – a perfectly realized tale of our times.
Jon Ronson
The classic book on social media and public shaming, now with an extra chapter examining the shaming of Monica Lewinsky.
V. S. Naipaul
A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels.
Emma Donoghue
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world.
A disturbing portrayal of privileged and immoral LA teenagers, Less Than Zero is a cult classic.
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A startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future - or even the present - who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle.
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An international bestseller and true modern classic, American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.
Reclusive writer Bill Gray escapes his failed novel into a world of political violence.
A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself.
An epic novel combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years of American history.
A rich parody of the parallels between the jargon of football and the jargon of battle - and a touch of cold-war existentialism - makes this powerful novel as hilarious…
A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relevant than ever in our celebrity-obsessed times.
