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Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of...

A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. With an...

Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest...

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In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already...

When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but...

When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In A Manual for...

A Nest of Vipers is the twenty-first novel in Andrea Camilleri's irresistible Inspector Montalbano series.

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The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant...

In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female...

A Voice in the Night is the twentieth compelling crime novel in the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea...

Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding...

What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden...

Set in a mythical, feudal, Japanese land, a world both beautiful and cruel, the intense love story of two young people takes...

From the lauded, bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, After Julius is Elizabeth Jane Howard's funny yet touching story...

Akin is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of Room.

A retired...

The eponymous Albert is an architect by training but a supply teacher out of necessity. Feeling that he is failing at both, and...

That's when it hits me. I'm staring at a war zone. In South Central.

On an April night in 1992, Payasa learns that her older...

Leonard Lessing once cast a spell on stage, hypnotizing crowds with his improvised jazz, easy in his music, at home in the...

All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his...

John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life...

In Alligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat captures luminously how it feels to be 'other': as a Syrian, as an Arab, as an...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

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2074. America's future is Civil War. Sarat's reality is survival. They took her father, they took her home, they told her...

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant...

The first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a preface by the author.

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19 October 1950. The war is not going to plan. In Paris, politicians gather to discuss what to do about Indochina. The conflict...

An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A...

From Jeffrey Archer, the bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, comes his captivating sixth collection...