Picador Classic

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In a Free State

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971, In a Free State is one of Sir V. S. Naipaul's best-loved works, a story of disenfranchisement and the search for belonging.

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Master and Margarita

A fully annotated translation of the most complete text of Bulgakov’s exuberant comic masterpiece.

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How Proust Can Change Your Life

A fascinating and illuminating look at Proust’s most famous works by renowned philosopher Alain de Botton.

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Gomorrah

The explosive international bestseller uncovering one of Naples’ most notorious organized criminal gangs.

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I Heard the Owl Call My Name

A classic of Canadian literature and a vivid, moving story of the clash – and coming together – of cultures.

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Dead Girls

Inspired by true events, The Dead Girls is the story of the unexplained deaths of six young prostitutes, buried in the back yard of a small-town brothel.

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Border Trilogy

Two young cowboys come of age in the dying days of the American frontier – across this award-winning trilogy, loyalty, love and the brutality of this landscape will determine the course of their lives.

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Flower Beneath the Foot

A ‘delightfully funny’ novel by ‘our first modernist novelist’ (according Alan Hollinghurst) – the story of a court on the eve of a royal wedding.

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Idea of Perfection

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001, The Idea of Perfection is a witty and tender romance.

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In the Skin of a Lion

From the Booker Prize-winning author comes the sparkling and lyrical predecessor to the bestselling The English Patient.

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History Man

A funny satire of academic life in the 1970s.

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Man Without Qualities

Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force

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Sport and a Pastime

The seductive classic that established Salter's reputation as one of the finest prose stylists of our time

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Soft City

One of the classics of travel writing, Soft City is an exploration of the individual's relationship with urban living.

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Face on the Cutting-Room Floor

An extraordinary post-modern detective novel from an author who remained a mystery for decades, now relaunched as a Picador Classic.

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Psalm Killer

One of the most compelling, haunting and original thrillers I have ever read, by one of Britain's most visionary writers and film-makers' David Peace

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Boy's Own Story

Every so often a novel comes along that is so ambitious in its intention and so confident of its voice that it reminds us what a singular and potent thing a novel can be' San Francisco Chronicle

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Genius of Shakespeare

Ambitious, exceptionally well informed and immensely engaging . . . Bate writes with unflagging energy, intelligence, with and enthusiasm' Daily Telegraph

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Long View

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, this is a profound, heartbreaking portrait of a marriage at its end.

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Lucky

A hard-hitting memoir from Alice Sebold, bestselling author of The Lovely Bones.

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Oreo

A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City.