Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force...

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

In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea...

An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

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

Patrick Bateman has it...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

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

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

Jack lives with his Ma...

How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk...