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All The Pretty Horses (The Border #1) by Cormac McCarthy
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
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 third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
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 collision with America's greatest dream â and its worst nightmare â American Psycho is ...Show more
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
n 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.) (hideous in every way). In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she lo ...Show more
Dirt Music: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2002 by Tim Winton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th
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 domestic tedium and social isolation. Her nights are a blur of vodka and pointless lo ...Show more
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th
It is 1943; billowing dust and information, the government 'Better Farming Train' slides across rural Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land. Amongst the swaying cars an unlikely seduction occurs between Robert, a man with an unusual taste for soil, and Jean, a young seamstress. ...Show more
Last Orders by Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
Set in Southeast England, friendship and love among a group of men whose lives have been intertwined since World War II. When one dies, the survivors are brought together and are forced to take stock of the paths their lives have taken, by choice and by accident, since the war. Winner of the 1996 Booker ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
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 of the finest writers in the English language. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Ni ...Show more
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
First published in 2002, The Lovely Bones became an instant worldwide bestseller. There are now over ten million copies in print. A film adaptation of the novel, directed by Peter Jackson, was released in 2010. Susie Salmon was fourteen years old when she was murdered by a man from her neighbourhood. No ...Show more
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
First published in Spanish in 1998, The Savage Detectives was immediately hailed as a critical success, wining the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize. But with the 2007 English-language translation the book became more than a bestseller -- it began the global sensation of Bolanomania. New Year ...Show more
The Sea - MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2005 by John Banville
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
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 summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candou ...Show more
White Noise by Don DeLillo
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
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 Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear â his own mortality. ...Show more
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