Книги Picador

Our Souls at Night | This is a love story. A story about growing old with grace. Addie Moore and Louis Waters have been neighbours for years. Now they both live alone, their houses empty of family, th...

Sex Robots & Vegan Meat. Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death | Imagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise, eat meat without killin...

The Other End of the Line | The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. In Inspector Montalb...

Complete Prose | A collection of 52 pieces of writing displaying Woody Allens own brand of humour. Allens three outrageously funny collections in one volume . Complete Prose brings together Allens thr...

The Pull of the Stars | The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, from the acclaimed author of Room. Moving, gripping and dazzlingly written - Stylist Dublin, 1918. In a country d...

The Woman Warrior | 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 immigran...

No Country for Old Men | Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, has made a grim discovery - a load of heroin, $2 million in cash and a lot of dead bodies. But when two more men are found...

Stories of Your Life and Others | With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism ...

It s Not About the Burqa | When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? Shortlisted for Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year 'Engrossing . . . fascinating . . . c...

Silence | With an introduction by Martin Scorsese.Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, sets sail for Japan on a determined mission to help the brutally oppress...

The Bells of Old Tokyo. Travels in Japanese Time | This mesmerising cultural history explores the neighbourhoods where [Tokyo's] bells once rang, and captures the essence of a place where time's innat...

The Body Artist | The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intima...

American Psycho | Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, and res...

The Genius of Shakespeare | Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the o...

Stella Maris | The masterful coda to The Passenger from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road. GOD. TRUTH. EXISTENCE. Stella Maris is the story of a mathematician, twenty years old, admitted t...

This is Going to Hurt. Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor | Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parkin...

Shakespearean. On Life & Language in Times of Disruption | Why do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday? When Robert McCrum began h...

The Book of Evidence | Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize, The Book of Evidence by John Banville is a dark and unsettling crime classic. This special 25th anniversary edition features extra materia...

The Piano Tuner | White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins. One misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives an unusual request f...

The Patrick Melrose Novels | 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...

The Cat Who Saved Books | The Cat Who Saved Books is a heart-warming story about finding courage, caring for others - and the tremendous power of books. Grandpa used to say it all the time: 'books hav...

The Silver Linings Playbook | Pat Peoples knows that life doesn't always go according to plan, but he's determined to get his back on track. After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Pat is staying wit...

The Enigma of Arrival | Taking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial...

The Crossing | The Crossing forms second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with The Cities of the Plain. Set on the sou...

Stories of Your Life and Others | With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism ...

The Angel Esmeralda. Nine Stories | The Angel Esmerelda is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in con...

Ours are the Streets | From Yorkshire to Afghanistan, Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization by Sunjeev Sahota, author of Man Booker Prize shortlisted The Ye...

King of the World. Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero | It was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gr...

The Guest Cat | A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day...

The City & The City | When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador B...

Fake Law. The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies | - Did an illegal immigrant avoid deportation because he had a cat? - Is the law on the side of the burglar who enters your home? - Are unelected j...

The Informers | The Informers is a collection of short stories with intertwining characters, from the author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis. Their voices enfold us as seamles...

No Country for Old Men | Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road. Llewelyn Moss...

Dead Man's Walk | Taking you deep into the heart of the American West, Dead Man's Walk is the first book in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove quartet. These are the wild days when Gus McCrae and Woodrow ...

The Cat Who Saved Books | Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves reached the ceiling, every one crammed full of wonderful books. Rintaro Natsuki lo...

And Thereby Hangs a Tale | From Jeffrey Archer, the bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, comes his captivating sixth collection of short stories, And Hereby Hangs a Tale, fu...

Little Deaths | Haunting, intoxicating and heart-poundingly suspenseful, Little Deaths is a gripping novel about love, morality and obsession, exploring the capacity for good and evil within us all. I...

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Thes...

Three Moments of an Explosion. Stories | The multi-award-winning China Mieville has been called 'the equal of David Mitchell or Zadie Smith' (Scotland on Sunday), a writer whose 'inventiveness and pre...

Crying in H Mart | The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her ...

Sea of Tranquility | The award-winning author of Station Eleven returns with a story of time travel that precisely captures the reality of our current moment . . . In 1912, eighteen-year-old Edwin St....

Daily Rituals. How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work | Benjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and Ge...

An Unquiet Mind. A Memoir of Moods and Madness | An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A classic memoir of eno...

The Shape of Water | The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano. When the body of respected and prominent e...

Cities of the Plain | In Cormac McCarthy's Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and unc...

Zero K | Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled. He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, ...

Less Than Zero | With an introduction by novelist Ottessa Moshfegh Eighteen-year-old college student Clay is back in his hometown of Los Angeles for Christmas break. Clay is three things: rich, bored ...

The Mind's Eye | How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are...

Blood Meridian | The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's we...

Underworld | Underworld opens – famously – at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on th...

If Cats Disappeared From The World | A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. Our narrator's days ar...

Antwerp | Antwerp was Roberto Bolano's first novel, though he chose not to publish it until 2002, more than twenty years after he'd written it. Set amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites on th...

Bad Blood. Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth...

Essays In Love | A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. With an introduction by Sheila Heti. Perhaps it is true that we do...

Mao II | Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers. Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes th...

The Master and Margarita | This is a fully annotated translation of the most complete text of Bulgakov's exuberant comic masterpiece. A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Ma...

Quartet in Autumn | With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel i...

Streets of Laredo | The final novel in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove quartet, Streets of Laredo is an exhilarating and achingly poignant tale of heroism and friendship, set in the American West. Capt...

Walking With Ghosts. A Memoir | Born to working-class parents and the eldest of six children, Gabriel Byrne harboured a childhood desire to become a priest. Four years later, Byrne had been expelled f...

The History Man | Take a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That's your problem-solving system . . . But haven't we tried all that? Howard Kirk, product of...

Daily Rituals. Women at Work. How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work | From Vanessa Bell and Charlotte Bronte to Nina Simone and Jane Campion, here are over one hundred and forty...

Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found fou...

Hemingway in Love | In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke-a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was re...

Exhalation | From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others - the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival - comes a groundbreaking second collection of short fiction: nine stu...