Books from Picador USA
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Truman Capote
By George PlimptonFull of wonderful stories, startlingly intimate and altogether fascinating, this is the most entertaining account of Truman Capote's life yet, as only the incomparable George Plimpton could have done it.
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Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Poets In Their Own Words
By Clare Brown, Don PatersonIn this collection of short essays, published in celebration of the golden anniversary of the Poetry Book Society, the reader will find Philip Larkin writing on The Whitsun Weddings, Louis MacNeice on The Burning Perch, Paul Muldoon on the ...
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A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (40th Anniversary Edition)
By Philip CaputoNeal said he knew nothing about a fire-fight. “It's going on right behind me. Or was. It's just about over now.” “I don't hear anything,” he said. “Six, that's because it's almost over. They were really going at it before.
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Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
By Jim Al-KhaliliHowever, one particular attempt to define life does provide a useful avenue for exploration: in 1944, Erwin Schrödinger proposed that living matter is that which 'avoids the decay into equilibrium' – or at least delays it by fighting ...
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Truth Or Dare
By Justine PicardieAn outstanding collection of recollections of childhood from international bestselling authors.
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Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
By Gillian Thomas... Janice goodman, gail gove and Jordan Young, Marya grandy and Matt heimer, David greenberg, lynn harris, emily houh, sarah Ivry, Marjorie Jolles and Matthew Pearson, lenora lapidus, tom lepak, Dahlia lithwick, P. David lopez, ...
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
By Alan Stern, David GrinspoonIf there had been two such bodies, McKinnon reasoned, why couldn't there be more? Perhaps even a lot more. The possibility that there was a vast swarm of such objects had been earlier suggested by pioneering mid-twentieth-century ...
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Still Water Saints
By Alex Espinoza'Vivid and vibrant . . . [A] magical debut . . . Still Water Saints embeds itself indelibly into the reader's memory' Deborah Donovan, Booklist
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Nourishment
By Gerard WoodwardTypically, she's trying to make the best of life in a difficult time: struggling, as only a mother can, to sustain her family in a land starved of nourishment. But like so many triumphs over adversity, her survival comes with a heavy price.
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
By John Cooper ClarkeThe godfather of British performance poetry - Daily Telegraph The Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr John Cooper Clarke for several decades - and a brilliant, scabrous, hilarious collection from one of our most ...
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A Point of View
By Clive James21st century Britain: a point of view from our fiercest and funniest critic The BBC Radio 4 series A Point of View has been on the air since 2007.
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The Book of My Enemy
By Clive JamesVerse with all the vivid invention of Clive James's unique prose style, combined with a sense of rhythm, cadence and memorable form that is equally and entirely his own . . .
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The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001-2005
By Clive JamesA dazzling collection of essays from renowned polymath Clive James
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Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time
By Clive JamesSo this is a book about how not to reach one. If I have done my job properly, themes will emerge from the apparent randomness and make this work intelligible.
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Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson
By Jonathan CoeB.S. Johnson was a well-known novelist in Britain whose innovations included a novel published in a box so its unbound chapters could be read in any order.
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Headlong
By Michael FraynFrayn combines the wit of Calvin Trillin with the wisdom of John Updike in this hilarious novel about an unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master.
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The Hours / Mrs. Dalloway: A Novel
By Virginia Woolf, Michael CunninghamIn this edition, Cunningham brings his own Pulitzer Prize–winning novel together with Woolf’s masterpiece, which has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary fiction and one of the finest novels written in English.
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Running Dog
By Don DeLilloA wild chase for Nazi pornography forms the basis of this gritty thriller; a damning critique of our compulsive desire for acquisition.
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Kidnapped: The Tragic Life of J. Paul Getty III
By Charles FoxWe'd get a message that Oufkir and King Hassan's brother, Prince Moulay Abdellah, were in town and they think it would be very nice to come over for the evening. So we'd have to get dinner together and whiskey.
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Prep
By Curtis SittenfeldYA. America doesn't have a class problem.