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The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
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With an introduction by novelist Rachel KushnerIn the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, and their own coming-of-age stories. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole's search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand and an ill-fated r ...Show more
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she w ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
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'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, a ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
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With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer t ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; Diana Lewis Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translators)
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Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts—one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow—the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a ...Show more
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn
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Filmed for Sky Atlantic, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Patrick Melrose Novels is the complete collection of Edward St Aubyn's award-winning novels of childhood trauma and aristocratic decadence. This Picador Classics edition features an introduction by author Zadie Smith.Patrick slid back down in h ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent. - Daily TelegraphThe Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. With an introduction by novelist John Banville. A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly fo ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Andrew O'Hagan - a father - and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in th ...Show more
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
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With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but w ...Show more
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
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With an introduction by Jeanette Winterson This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man ...Show more
Underworld by Don DeLillo
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He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful. It's a vast and sprawling crowd that comes together to watch the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League Final, and when Bobby Thomson hits the Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants, rippl ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
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With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter.' Sunday Times I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me. I ...Show more