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Drowning in Wheat, John Kinsella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
This is London, Ben Judah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Legoland, Gerard Woodward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
A Little Lumpen Novelita, Roberto Bolano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Blind Roadmaker, Ian Duhig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
This Census-Taker, China Mieville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Lover, Anna Raverat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Slow Burn City, Rowan Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Trading Futures, Jim Powell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Not Working, Lisa Owens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Helen Oyeyemi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Wish Lanterns, Alec Ash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Gate of Lilacs, Clive James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Collected Poems, Clive James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Outside Lands, Hannah Kohler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Island Home, Tim Winton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Kung Fu, Ryan Gattis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Selection Day, Aravind Adiga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Say Something Back, Denise Riley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Shelter, Jung Yun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
The End of June, Emma Chapman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Everyone is Watching, Megan Bradbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
The Tale of Shikanoko: Emperor of the Eight Islands - MISSING, Lian Hearn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
You Will Know Me, Megan Abbott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Dubai Story, Mark Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
DROWNING IN WHEAT
Selected Poems
John Kinsella
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The definitive collection of over thirty years of John Kinsella's awardwinning poetry.
Drowning in Wheat collects the best of three decades of John Kinsella's astonishing
poetry in one volume. Kinsella is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest
living Australian poets, and arguably the most important 'eco-poet' of the age;
however, this collection also reveals a writer of unexpected and remarkable
versatility, and one fluent in an almost bewildering range of forms, registers and
voices. Despite its great thematic range, Kinsella's overarching project emerges all
the more clearly: Drowning in Wheat is a clarion call and a call to order, a plea to
listen to the earth - and to understand our own place within it while we still can. It is
also an ideal introduction to one of the essential poets of the age.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Kinsella is the author of over thirty books. He is a Fellow of Churchill
College, Cambridge University. In 2007 he received the Fellowship of Australian
Writers Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. He
received the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry in 2013.
FORMAT: Paperback
Pub Date: 14/1/2016
Pages: 400
Trim: 153 x 197 mm
ISBN: 9781447221487
Price: £14.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Poetry
Subcategory: General
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THIS IS LONDON
Life and Death in the World City
Ben Judah
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A major work of narrative non-fiction from a fresh new voice.
London is a global city. More than half of those who live in the UK's capital came
from somewhere else - and most arrived in the last ten years. Migration is
transforming London, for better and for worse.
Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent. In This Is London, he turns his
keen reporter's eye on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of the city's
immigrants - from the richest to the poorest - to discover the complex and varied
individuals who are making London what it is today. He's had dinner with oligarchs
and meetings with foreign royalty, spent nights streetwalking and sleeping rough;
he's heard stories of heart-breaking failure, but also witnessed extraordinary acts of
compassion, hope and the triumph of love.
A compulsive, acutely observed and deeply sympathetic work of journalism, This Is
London is an exciting and revelatory book from an extraordinary new talent.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ben Judah was born in London. He studied at Oxford University and has travelled
widely in Russia and Central Asia. His writing has featured in numerous
publications, including the New York Times, the Evening Standard and Standpoint.
His first book, Fragile Empire, was published by Yale University Press in 2013.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 28/1/2016
Pages: 352
Trim: 153 x 234 mm
ISBN: 9781447272441
Price: £18.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Travel
Subcategory: Essays & Travelogues
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LEGOLAND
Gerard Woodward
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A stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize- and
Whitbread Prize-shortlisted author.
Many of Legoland's fifteen stories begin with Woodward's sharp and unflinching
eye alighting upon an apparently everyday detail or situation, but then a sudden
twist takes them to an unsettling place where life's normal rules no longer apply.
Whether he's writing about domestic subjects - such as in 'The Unloved', when a
woman in a dysfunctional marriage finally leaves home after decades of misery; or
tackling large issues on a global stage - the tyranny of dictators in 'The Fall of Mr
and Mrs Nicholson'; or the invasion of an unnamed country in 'The Flag', each story
is full of Woodward's blacker-than-black humour, fearless surrealism, and gift for
phrase-making.
The collection also includes Woodward's brilliant story 'The Family Whistle',
shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, in which a woman's
husband returns home from war, only to discover his wife thinks he's been back for
years because another man has already claimed his place.
Legoland celebrates Woodward's gift for clarity, wit and surprise: his lithe prose
and willingness to ignore convention carrying us from comedy to tragedy and back
again, sometimes in a single story; it confirms him as one of the most gifted and
original writers of our time.
FORMAT: Hardcover
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ISBN: 9781447288671
Price: £14.99
Gerard Woodward is the author of a number of novels including Nourishment, and
an acclaimed trilogy comprising August (shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First
Novel Award), I'll Go to Bed at Noon (shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize)
and A Curious Earth. He was born in London in 1961, and published several prizewinning collections of poetry before turning to fiction. His collection of poetry We
Were Pedestrians was shortlisted for the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize. His most recent
poetry collection, Seacunny, was published in 2012. He is Professor of Creative
Writing at Bath Spa University.
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
REVIEWS
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
'A comic sensibility closer to Alan Bennett or Tom Sharpe. Woodward's rueful
amusement isn't frivolity, it's a world view' Financial Times
Pub Date: 11/2/2016
Pages: 208
Trim: 135 x 216 mm
'Gerard Woodward falls squarely between the comic lunacy of American shortform virtuoso George Saunders and the everyday rhapsodies of Raymond Carver'
Time Out
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A LITTLE LUMPEN NOVELITA
Roberto Bolaño
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A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a young writer's fierce ambitions and
intensely tender love of women.
'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime': so
Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen
Novelita.
Orphaned overnight as a teenager - 'our parents died in a car crash on their first
vacation without us' - she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, sees a terrible
brightness at night, and drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two
petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family
apartment and plot a strange crime, Bianca learns she can drift lower . . .
Electric and tense with foreboding, with its jagged, propulsive short chapters
beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer, A Little Lumpen Novelita - one of the
last novels Roberto Bolaño published - delivers a surprising, fractured fairy tale of
taking control of one's fate.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and
Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the
Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National
Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
FORMAT: B Format Paperback
Pub Date: 11/2/2016
Pages: 128
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
ISBN: 9781447292913
Price: £8.99
REVIEWS
'As for Bolaño, what can one say? One of our greatest writers, a straight colossus'
Junot Díaz
'One of the best books of the year - A Little Lumpen Novelita feels as substantial as
a book three times as long . . . This is a glittering gem, as maddening and haunting
as you'd expect from Bolaño' Gabe Habash, Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
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THE BLIND ROADMAKER
Ian Duhig
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A brilliant and eclectic new collection from the Forward Prize-winning poet.
If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new
collection is Sterne's Tristram Shandy, its presiding genius is the great eighteenthcentury civil engineer, fiddler and polymath Blind Jack Metcalf - whose life Duhig
here celebrates, and from whose example he draws great inspiration. Writing with
an almost Burnsian eclecticism, Duhig explores urban poverty, determinism, social
justice and the consolations of poetry and music on a journey that takes in
everything from a riotous reimagining of Don Juan to the tragedy of Manuel Bravo
(the Leeds asylum seeker from Angola who was forced to defend himself in court,
and later took his own life). No poet today writes with such a sense of political and
social conscience, and The Blind Roadmaker affirms Duhig's belief in poetry as a
means of commemorating those who least deserve to be forgotten.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback
Ian Duhig worked with homeless people for fifteen years before devoting himself
to writing activities full-time. He has won the Forward Best Poem Prize once and
the National Poetry Competition twice. His last two books with Picador, The
Lammas Hireling (2003) and The Speed of Dark (2007), were both PBS Choices
and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His most recent short story appeared in The
New Uncanny, winner of the Shirley Jackson Best Anthology Award for 2008, and
his most recent musical collaboration, with the Clerks early music consort, on their
CD Don't Talk - just listen! (Signum, 2009). He lives in Leeds with his wife Jane
and their son Owen.
Pub Date: 11/2/2016
Pages: 80
Trim: 153 x 197 mm
ISBN: 9781509809813
Price: £9.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Poetry
Subcategory: General
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THIS CENSUS-TAKER
China Miéville
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For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link and David Mitchell, This CensusTaker is a stunning, uncanny and profoundly moving novella from multiple
award-winning author China Miéville.
In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event. He tries and fails - to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of
safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape.
When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation
might be over.
But by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? What
is the purpose behind his questions? Is he friend? Enemy? Or something else
altogether?
Filled with beauty, terror and strangeness, This Census-Taker is a poignant and
riveting exploration of memory and identity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
China Miéville is the multiple award-winning author of many books, including The
City & The City, Embassytown and Perdido Street Station. He lives and works in
London.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 25/2/2016
Pages: 160
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
ISBN: 9781509812141
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
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LOVER
Anna Raverat
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Witty, honest, gently philosophical - a brilliant British novel that will delight
readers of Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation.
When Kate discovers emails from her husband Adam - aka 'Prince Charming' - to
another woman, she takes a long look at her long marriage. And once she starts, she
finds all kinds of things she had been doing her level best not to see.
As her home life unravels, Kate's work - at a global hotel company - and her
nightmare boss become increasingly demanding. She wants to protect her young
girls, but her own foundations have been knocked away. Who was the man with
whom she spent all those years?
Told with warmth and lightness, even as it also mines real depths of sorrow, Lover
is a novel about the hand that life can deal you, and how to play it with grace.
Beautifully observed, full of wisdom, poetry and humour, it asks what it means to
be true in all things, and in so doing, how to live.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anna Raverat is the acclaimed author of Signs of Life. Lover is her second novel.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 10/3/2016
Pages: 192
Trim: 135 x 216 mm
ISBN: 9781447271307
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
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SLOW BURN CITY
London in the Twenty-First Century
Rowan Moore
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A provocative, brilliant and humane new book from 'one of our most
intelligent architecture critics' (Daily Telegraph).
London has become the global city above all others. Money from all over the world
flows through it; its land and homes are tradable commodities; it is a nexus for the
world's migrant populations, rich and poor. Versions of what is happening in
London are happening elsewhere, but London has become the best place to
understand the way the world's cities are changing.
Some of the transformations London has undergone were creative, others were
destructive; this is not new. London has always been a city of trade, exploitation
and opportunity. But London has an equal history of public interventions, including
the Clean Air Act, the invention of the green belt and council housing, and the
innovation of the sewers and embankments that removed the threat of cholera. In
each case the response was creative and unprecedented; they were also huge in scale
and often controversial. The city must change, of course, but Moore explains why it
should do so with a 'slow burn', through the interplay of private investment, public
good and legislative action.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 10/3/2016
Pages: 256
Trim: 153 x 234 mm
ISBN: 9781447270188
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Literary Collections
Subcategory: Essays
Fiercely intelligent, thought-provoking, lucidly written and often outrageously and
uncomfortably funny, Slow Burn City is packed with fascinating stories about the
physical fabric of London in the twenty-first century. But by seeing this fabric as
the theatre of social and cultural struggles, Moore connects the political and
architectural decisions of London's enfeebled and reactive government with the
built environment that affects its inhabitants' everyday lives. In this urgent and
necessary book, Moore makes a passionate case for London to invent new ways to
respond to the pressures of the present, from which other cities could learn.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the
Evening Standard. He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 was
the Director of the Architecture Foundation. He is the author of one previous book,
Why We Build, which Sir Paul Smith described as 'fantastic'.
REVIEWS
'Moore decrypts the ideological narratives of buildings with the same fluency he
brings to bear on materials, forms and spaces: today's architectural criticism rarely
seems so humane or intelligent' Daily Telegraph
'One of the UK's most accomplished writers on the profession, he critiques the
most important buildings and the people who masterminded them with a style that
is both entertaining and cuts through the crap' Observer
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TRADING FUTURES
Jim Powell
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The brilliantly observed and very witty story of one man's unravelling.
When I was small, my mother showed me how to grow a carrot from a carrot. She
cut the top off a carrot, ran a cocktail stick horizontally through the stub and
suspended it over a jam jar, just touching water. This was one of the many exciting
ways in which I was prepared for adult life.
This is Matthew Oxenhay at sixty: a stranger to his wife, an embarrassment to his
children, and failed former contender for the top job at his City firm. Seizing on his
birthday party as an opportunity to deliver some rather crushing home truths to his
assembled loved ones, it seems as though Matthew might have hit rock bottom. The
truth is, however, that he has some way to go yet . . .
With forensic precision and mordant wit, Matthew will unpick the threads that bind
him: a comfortable home in the suburbs, a career spent trading futures and a life
that bears little resemblance to the one he imagined for himself at twenty. When he
unexpectedly bumps into Anna (the one who got away), the stage is set for an epic
unravelling.
Darkly funny, Trading Futures forces us to confront how change, like death, is an
inevitable fact of life: feared by most, it can transform or overwhelm us. This is a
brilliantly observed novel, for fans of John Lanchester's Mr Phillips and On Chesil
Beach by Ian McEwan.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 24/3/2016
Pages: 176
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jim Powell is the author of one previous novel, The Breaking of Eggs, and was
named by BBC2's The Culture Show as one of the '12 Of The Best New Novelists'
of 2011. He divides his time between Northamptonshire, England, and the Tarn,
France.
ISBN: 9781509806423
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU
Garth Greenwell
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A breathtaking examination of romantic obsession and the power struggles of
a relationship, this beautifully written and achingly emotional novel marks
the debut of one of America's most exciting young writers.
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase
beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a
public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to
Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly
intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man becomes inseparable from
that of his homeland, Bulgaria, a country with a difficult past and an uncertain
future.
Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You is a stunning debut about an American
expat struggling with his own complicated inheritance while navigating a foreign
culture. Lyrical and intense, it tells the story of a man caught between longing and
resentment, unable to separate desire from danger, and faced with the impossibility
of understanding those he most longs to know.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Garth Greenwell is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, where
he was an Arts Fellow. His novella Mitko won the 2010 Miami University Press
Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
and a Lambda Literary Award.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 7/4/2016
Pages: 204
Trim: 135 x 216 mm
ISBN: 9781447280514
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
REVIEWS
'With What Belongs to You American literature is richer by one masterpiece. The
character Mitko is unforgettable, as all myths are. He reigns at the heart of this
book, surrounded by the magic flames of desire' Edmund White, author of A Boy's
Own Story
'What Belongs to You is a beautiful, moving, sensual novel. It announces Garth
Greenwell as one of America's most exciting young writers' Jonathan Lee, author of
Joy
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
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NOT WORKING
Lisa Owens
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A hilarious, whip-smart, once-in-a-generation debut from an irresistible new
voice.
Claire Flannery has quit her job in order to discover her true vocation - only to
realize she has no idea how to go about finding it. Whilst everyone around her
seems to have their lives entirely under control, Claire finds herself sinking under
pressure and wondering where her own fell apart. 'It's fine,' her grandmother says. 'I
remember what being your age was like - of course, I had four children under eight
then, but modern life is different, you've got an awful lot on.'
Funny, sharp, tender and brilliantly observed, Not Working is the story of a life
unravelling in minute and spectacular ways, and a novel that voices the questions
we've all been asking ourselves but never dared to say out loud.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lisa Owens was born in 1985 and grew up in Glasgow and Hertfordshire. After
reading English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, she spent six years working in
publishing. In 2013, she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of
East Anglia. She lives in London with her husband, the actor and comedian Simon
Bird.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 21/4/2016
Pages: 256
Trim: 135 x 216 mm
ISBN: 9781509806546
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
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WHAT IS NOT YOURS IS NOT YOURS
Helen Oyeyemi
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A remarkable collection of short stories from one of our most gifted writers,
Helen Oyeyemi.
The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the
exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of
characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another.
The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of
marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have
stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society
commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's
Day.
It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep
sensuousness.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Oyeyemi is the author of five novels, including White is for Witching (which
won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Fox and Boy, Snow, Bird. In 2013,
Helen was included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 21/4/2016
Pages: 176
Trim: 135 x 216 mm
ISBN: 9781447299363
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: Short Stories (single author)
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WISH LANTERNS
Alec Ash
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An agenda-changing account of what it means to be young in modern China.
There are approximately 322 million Chinese aged between 16 and 30 - a group
larger than the population of the USA, and destined to have an unprecedented
influence on global affairs in the coming years. The one-child policy has led to a
generation of only children; there is intense competition for education and jobs, and
a tug-of-war between cultural change and tradition, nationalism and the lures of the
West. We know the headlines of their lives, but what of the details?
Following the lives of six young Chinese, Alec Ash has created an immersive,
narrative account of how it feels to be young in today's China: what it means to be
an artist, to face academic failure, to remain single, to be addicted to the internet, to
be wealthy and privileged, to choose not to join the Party.
Told as six first-person accounts, Wish Lanterns is a vibrant and intimate book, for
readers of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Barbara Demick's
Nothing to Envy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alec Ash is a writer and journalist living in Beijing.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 21/4/2016
Pages: 288
Trim: 135 x 216 mm
ISBN: 9781447237952
Price: £16.99
He studied English Literature at Oxford University, after which he taught in a
Tibetan village in Western China for a summer, before moving to Beijing in 2008,
where he writes, reads and enjoys the smog.
His articles have been published in The Economist, Prospect, Standpoint, Dissent and
Literary Review. He is Beijing correspondent for Los Angeles Review of Books, and
a contributing author to Chinese Characters, an anthology also featuring Peter
Hessler, Evan Osnos and Ian Johnson.
In 2012 he founded a writers' colony at theanthill.org
alecash.net
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Travel
Subcategory: Essays & Travelogues
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GATE OF LILACS
A Verse Commentary on Proust
Clive James
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Filled with Clive James's typical wit, warmth, erudition and enthusiasm, this
is a brilliant and original tribute to one of his great literary loves, Marcel
Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other
method than reading À la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century
trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate
of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and engagement with Proust's eternal
masterpiece.
With À la recherche du temps perdu, Proust, in James's words, 'followed his creative
instinct all the way until his breath gave out', and now James has done the same. In
Gate of Lilacs, James, a brilliant critical essayist and poet, has blended the two
forms into one.
I had always thought the critical essay and the poem were closely related forms . . . If
I wanted to talk about Proust's poetry beyond the basic level of talking about his
language - if I wanted to talk about the poetry of his thought - then the best way to do
it might be to write a poem.There is nothing like a poem for transmitting a mental
flavour. Instead of trying to describe it, you can evoke it.
FORMAT: Hardcover
In the end, if À la recherche du temps perdu is a book devoted almost entirely to its
author's gratitude for life, for love, and for art, this much smaller book is devoted to
its author's gratitude for Proust.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pub Date: 21/4/2016
Pages: 112
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
ISBN: 9781509812356
Price: £14.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Poetry
Subcategory: General
Clive James is the multi-million-copy bestselling author of more than forty books.
His poetry collection Sentenced to Life and his translation of Dante's The Divine
Comedy were both Sunday Times top ten bestsellers, and his collections of verse
have been shortlisted for many prizes. In 2012 he was appointed CBE and in 2013
an Officer of the Order of Australia.
REVIEWS
'James writes with exquisite perception and surgical precision; he is a poet of
powerful argument and emotional force' The Times
'A writer whose commanding voice contains a constant variety of colour and tone'
Robert McCrum, Observer
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COLLECTED POEMS
1958 - 2015
Clive James
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The Collected Poems of one of the greatest writers of our age, with a new
introduction by the author.
Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His recent
poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and
unflinching honesty, such as 'Japanese Maple' (first published in the New Yorker in
2014), became global news events upon their publication. His most recent
collection, Sentenced to Life, was a phenomenal bestseller in the UK and in
Australia, and his translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy was a Sunday Times top
ten bestseller in 2013.
In this book, James makes his own rich selection from over fifty years' work in
verse: from his early satires to these heart-stopping valedictory poems, he proves
himself to be as well suited to the intense demands of the tight lyric as he is to the
longer mock-epic. Collected Poems displays James's fluency and apparently
effortless style, his technical skill and thematic scope, his lightly worn erudition and
his emotional power; it will undoubtedly cement his reputation as one of the most
versatile and accomplished of contemporary writers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 21/4/2016
Pages: 560
Trim: 153 x 234 mm
ISBN: 9781509812400
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Clive James is the multi-million-copy bestselling author of more than forty books.
His poetry collection Sentenced to Life and his translation of Dante's The Divine
Comedy were both Sunday Times top ten bestsellers, and his collections of verse
have been shortlisted for many prizes. In 2012 he was appointed CBE and in 2013
an Officer of the Order of Australia.
REVIEWS
'James writes with exquisite perception and surgical precision; he is a poet of
powerful argument and emotional force' The Times
'A writer whose commanding voice contains a constant variety of colour and tone'
Robert McCrum, Observer
Category: Poetry
Subcategory: General
30
THE OUTSIDE LANDS
Hannah Kohler
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A remarkable debut set in California and Vietnam in 1968, The Outside Lands
is a powerful story of family, disillusionment and betrayal.
Jeannie is nineteen when the world changes, Kip only fourteen. The sudden
accident that robs them of their mother leaves them adrift, with only their father to
guide them. Jeannie seeks escape in work and later marriage to a man whose social
connections propel her into an unfamiliar world of wealth and politics. Ill-equipped
and unprepared, Jeannie finds comfort where she can. Meanwhile Kip's descent
into a life of petty crime is halted only when he volunteers for the Marines.
By 1968, the conflict in Vietnam is at its height, and with the anti-war movement
raging at home, Jeannie and Kip are swept along by events larger than themselves,
driven by disillusionment to commit unforgiveable acts of betrayal that will leave
permanent scars.
The Outside Lands is the story of people caught in the slipstream of history, how we
struggle in the face of loss to build our world, and how easily and with sudden
violence it can be swept away. With extraordinary skill and accuracy, Hannah
Kohler takes us from 1960s California to Vietnam, capturing what it means to live
through historic times. This powerful debut novel announces Kohler as a
remarkable new literary talent.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 5/5/2016
Pages: 288
Trim: 135 x 216 mm
Hannah Kohler grew up on the south coast of England. After studying English and
American Literature at Cambridge University, Hannah completed the City
University MA in Creative Writing. She has worked in television for several years
and lives in London. The Outside Lands is her first novel.
REVIEWS
'Kohler reimagines the Vietnam War and its misbegotten aims as a travesty of the
family, beautifully articulating the wider sacrifices too often ignored' Joshua Ferris
ISBN: 9781509802104
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
31
ISLAND HOME
Tim Winton
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A wise, passionate and compelling investigation into how our landscape
makes us who we are.
'I grew up on the world's largest island.'
This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful,
evocative, and sometimes provocative, memoir of how this unique landscape has
shaped him and his writing.
For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is as
much a living presence as any character. What is true of his work is also true of his
life: from boyhood, his relationship with the world around him - rockpools,
seacaves, scrub and swamp - was as vital as any other connection. Camping in
hidden inlets of the south-east, walking in the high rocky desert fringe, diving at
Ningaloo Reef, bobbing in the sea between sets, Winton has felt the place seep into
him, with its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance, and learned to see
landscape as a living process.
Island Home is the story of how that relationship with the Australian landscape
came to be, and how it has determined his ideas, his writing and his life. It is also a
passionate exhortation for all of us to feel the ground beneath our feet.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 5/5/2016
Pages: 128
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Tim Winton has published twenty-six books for adults and children, and his work
has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open
Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin
Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been
shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in
Western Australia.
ISBN: 9781509816910
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Subcategory: Personal Memoirs
32
KUNG FU
Ryan Gattis
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Youth, love and violence collide in the enthralling, hard-hitting first novel by
Ryan Gattis, author of All Involved.
Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like
everybody else: by following the rules. She avoids the Principal. She doesn't
complain. She's loyal to her MLK 'family'. And, like 99.5% of the student body,
she knows one form or another of martial arts.
When Jen's world-famous Kung-Fu champion of a cousin Jimmy Chang turns up,
everyone wants a piece of him - including Ridley, resident drug lord and leader of
the school's most violent gang. They all want to see the legendary martial-arts
master defend himself during the school's merciless initiation ritual.
Except that Jimmy's made a promise never to fight again - a promise that soon
leads to the murder of Jen's brother and a bloody final battle that engulfs the entire
school.
Fast-paced, gritty and addictive, Kung Fu is an extreme journey into high-school
violence and the American Dream that feeds it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ryan Gattis is a novelist, lecturer at Chapman University in Southern California,
and member of LA urban art crew UGLAR.
FORMAT: B Format Paperback
Pub Date: 19/5/2016
Pages: 288
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
ISBN: 9781509813506
Price: £8.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
REVIEWS
'It's so tense that at times you have absolutely no idea what has just happened in the
real world because you're in The Fu, entirely. You feel every blow, every break.
And what a climax . . . I want to tell you all about it so that I can discuss with you
how wonderful, tragic and ultimately cathartic it was . . . but I won't. You'll just
have to keep a strong stomach and see for yourself' Independent on Sunday
'Ryan Gattis's homage to the world of martial arts is a way-cool, direct and stylish
romp of fiction that feels very real . . . A modern, violent epic of teenage kicks in
the school of hard knocks. Kung Fu is a bloodied white-knuckle ride that never
forgets the consequences of its actions' The List
33
SELECTION DAY
Aravind Adiga
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A touching and moving new novel, of adolescence, ambition and selfrealization, and of fathers and sons, set in contemporary Bombay, by the
author of The White Tiger and Last Man in Tower.
Manju is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder
brother Radha. He knows that he hates his domineering and cricket-obsessed
father, admires his brilliantly talented brother and is fascinated by CSI and curious
and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things, about himself and about
the world, that he doesn't know . . . Everyone around him, it seems, has a clear idea
of who Manju should be, except Manju himself.
But when Manju begins to get to know Radha's great rival, a boy as privileged and
confident as Manju is not, everything in Manju'a world begins to change and he is
faced by decisions that will challenge both his sense of self and of the world around
him.
As sensitively observed as The White Tiger was brilliantly furious, Selection Day
reveals another facet of its author's remarkable talent.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now called Chennai), and grew up in
Mangalore in the south of India. He was educated at Columbia University in New
York and Magdalen College, Oxford. His articles have appeared in publications
such as the New Yorker, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and the Times of
India. His first novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in
2008. A second novel, Last Man in Tower, was published in 2011.
Pub Date: 19/5/2016
Pages: 320
Trim: 135 x 216 mm
ISBN: 9781509806232
Price: £16.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
34
SAY SOMETHING BACK
Denise Riley
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The stunning new collection from one of England's finest and most
philosophical contemporary poets.
Say Something Back will allow readers to see just why the name of Denise Riley has
been held in such high regard by her fellow poets for so long. The book reproduces
'A Part Song', a profoundly moving document of grieving and loss, and one of the
most widely admired long poems of recent years. Elsewhere these poems become a
space for contemplation, for research, and the deep consideration of the nature of
mourning, of health, of the natural world and of physical law. But finally, they
extend our sense of what the human speech act can mean - and especially what is
drawn forth from us when when we address our dead. Lyric, intimate, acidly witty,
unflinchingly brave, Say Something Back is a deeply moving book by one of our
finest poets, and one destined to introduce Riley's name to a wide new readership.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Denise Riley is a critically acclaimed writer of both philosophy and poetry. She is
currently A. D. White Professor at Cornell University in the US. Previously she has
also held positions as Writer in Residence at the Tate Gallery in London and
Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck College in the University of London. She has taught
philosophy, art history, poetics, and creative writing. Denise Riley lives in London.
FORMAT: B Format Paperback
Pub Date: 19/5/2016
Pages: 64
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
ISBN: 9781447270379
Price: £9.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Poetry
Subcategory: General
35
SHELTER
Jung Yun
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A gripping and involving debut novel that explores the legacy of violence, its
reverberation across generations and what possibilities may endure for hope,
redemption and healing.
Why should a man care for his parents when they failed to take care of him as a
child?
Kyung Cho owns a house that he can't afford. His credit cards and student loan
debts are spiralling out of control. Despite his promising career as a tenure-track
professor, Kyung and his wife, Gillian, have always lived beyond their means. Now,
their bad decisions are catching up with them, and Kyung is worried for his family's
future.
A few miles away, Kyung's parents, Jin and Mae, live in the town's most exclusive
neighbourhood, surrounded by the material comforts that Kyung wants so badly for
his wife and son. His own childhood, however, was far from comfortable - growing
up, Kyung enjoyed every imaginable privilege, but never kindness or affection. He
can hardly bear to see his parents, much less ask them for help. Yet when an act of
violence leaves Jin and Mae unable to live on their own, the dynamic suddenly
changes, and he decides to take them in. As the safe distance between them
collapses, Kyung is forced to question what it means to be a good husband, father
and son, while the life he knew begins to crumble and his own anger demands to be
released.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 2/6/2016
Pages: 336
Trim: 135 x 216 mm
ISBN: 9781509810505
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
As Shelter veers swiftly towards its startling conclusion, Jung Yun leads us through
dark and violent territory, where, unexpectedly, the Chos discover hope. In the
tradition of Affliction and The House of Sand and Fog, Shelter is a masterfully
crafted debut novel that asks what it means to provide for one's family and, in
answer, delivers a story as riveting as it is profound.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jung Yun is a graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her work has appeared in Tin House, The Best of Tin
House: Stories and The Massachusetts Review. In 2011, her short story 'The Strange
Genius of American Men' received an honourable mention for the Pushcart Prize.
In 2010, she was awarded an Artist's Fellowship in fiction from the Massachusetts
Cultural Council.
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
36
THE END OF JUNE
Emma Chapman
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The enthralling new novel from the highly acclaimed author of How to Be a
Good Wife.
He walks into the living room and June is dead.
He centres her, checking the light. Focusing, he clicks the shutter.
He'll ask himself later, if he knew. It's easy to say that he had acted without thinking,
out of instinct.
Rook Henderson is an award-winning photojournalist, still carrying the hidden scars
of war. Now, suddenly, he is also a widower. Leaving his son Ralph to pick up the
pieces, Rook packs his belongings and flies to Vietnam for the first time in fifty
years.
As Rook reconnects with the changed landscape of a place he once knew so well,
he reflects upon a life defined through his work - wartime Vietnam, Ethiopia in the
1980s, and then further back in time, through rural life in the 1970s, fashionable
London in the 1960s, a post-war working class childhood in a Yorkshire mining
town, and a secret grief he's never been able to forget.
When Ralph follows him to Vietnam, seeking answers from the father he barely
knows, Rook is forced to reconsider his marriage to the enigmatic June and the
price he has paid for a life behind the lens.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 2/6/2016
Pages: 336
Trim: 135 x 216 mm
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Emma Chapman was born in 1985 and grew up in Manchester. She studied English
Literature at Edinburgh University, followed by an MA in Creative Writing at
Royal Holloway, and now lives in Yorkshire. Her highly acclaimed debut novel,
How to Be a Good Wife, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
ISBN: 9781509816538
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
37
EVERYONE IS WATCHING
Megan Bradbury
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A beautiful and beguiling novel of New York told through the lives of some of
those who have defined the city: Robert Moses, Edmund White, Walt
Whitman and Robert Mapplethorpe.
New York: A city that inspires. A city that draws people in. A city where everyone
is watching, waiting to see what will happen next.
1967. Robert Mapplethorpe knows he is an artist. From his childhood home in
Queens he yearns for the heat and excitement of the city, the press of other people's
bodies. He wants to be watched, he wants to be known.
1891. Walt Whitman has already found fame, and has settled into his own sort of
old age. Still childlike, still passionate, he travels with his friend and biographer
Bucke to the city he has always adored, the scene of his greatest triumphs and
rejections.
1922. Robert Moses is a man with a vision. Standing on the edge of Long Island he
knows what it could become. Walking down a street in Brooklyn he sees its future.
He is the man who will build modern New York.
2013. Edmund White is back in New York. It's the city of his youth, of his life and
loves. He remembers days of lazy pleasure, nights of ecstasy and euphoria. But
years have gone by since then.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 16/6/2016
Pages: 288
Trim: 153 x 234 mm
ISBN: 9781509809745
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
Everyone is Watching is a novel about the men and women who have defined New
York. Through the lives and perspectives of these great creators, artists and
thinkers, and through other iconic works of art that capture its essence, New York
itself solidifies. Complex, rich, sordid, tantalizing, it is constantly changing and
evolving. Both intimate and epic in its sweep, Everyone is Watching is a love letter
to New York and its people - past, present and future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Megan Bradbury was born in the United States and grew up in Britain. She has an
MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. In 2012 she was
awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship at UEA and in 2013 she won an Escalator
Literature Award and a Grant for the Arts to help fund the completion of her first
novel, Everyone is Watching.
38
THE TALE OF SHIKANOKO
Emperor of the Eight Islands
Lian Hearn
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The first instalment in a magnificent new epic by the creator of the global
phenomenon Tales of the Otori, Lian Hearn.
An ambitious warrior leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands.
A stubborn father forces his younger son to give up his wife to his older brother.
A woman of the Old People seeks five fathers for her five children, the Spider
Tribe, born from cocoons.
A powerful priest trains a young disciple, Shikanoko, who has been made a sorcerer
against his will.
An intricate tapestry has been woven for two rival clans to enter a savage battle
over who will be crowned Emperor of the Eight Islands.
In an extraordinary story seething with intrigue, adventure and love, Lian Hearn
masterfully brings to life a mythical Japanese world inhabited by assassins, ghosts,
spirits, deer and monkeys. A spellbinding new work from the author of Across the
Nightingale Floor.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 16/6/2016
Pages: 336
Trim: 135 x 216 mm
Lian Hearn studied modern languages at Oxford University and worked as a film
critic and arts editor in London before settling in Australia. A lifelong interest in
Japan led to the study of the Japanese language and many trips to Japan. This
fascination culminated in Lian writing Across the Nightingale Floor which was the
first in the internationally acclaimed Tales of the Otori series. Grass for His Pillow,
Brilliance of the Moon, and The Harsh Cry of the Heron follow.
ISBN: 9781509812479
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
39
YOU WILL KNOW ME
Megan Abbott
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From the multi-prizewinning Megan Abbott, a searing new thriller about
what a mother will do for her child.
You Will Know Me is set in the high-pressure world of competitive gymnastics,
where Devon has had her sights set on the US Olympic team since she was tiny.
Strong, determined, the star of her training centre, she is the absolute focus of her
parents' lives, and the lynchpin of their marriage.
Yet Devon, for all her brightness on the floor, is a deeply private person,
unknowable even to her mother, Katie. Told from Katie's point of view, with
irresistible momentum and devastating detail, this is the story of what happens
when a person is driven by their own unique talent beyond the bounds of tolerance,
even of morality.
Plotted with all the brilliance of Dare Me, and written with the compassion of The
Fever, this astonishing novel - dark and tender by turns - should win Megan Abbott
the huge readership she deserves. It is unforgettable.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Megan Abbott is the author of The End of Everything, Dare Me (CWA Steel
Dagger shortlist) and The Fever (Strand Critics Award for Best Novel of the Year
and International Thriller Writers Best Hardcover Novel of the Year). She lives in
Queens, New York.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 30/6/2016
Pages: 256
Trim: 153 x 234 mm
ISBN: 9781447226352
Price: £16.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
40
DUBAI STORY
Mark Watson
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The dazzling new novel from acclaimed author and stand-up comedian Mark
Watson.
'Dubai is a good place to win. And a really, really bad place to lose . . .'
Junior advertising creative Tim Callaghan can hardly believe his luck when his idea
for a commercial is commissioned by an international charity. He's flown out to
Dubai to supervise the project and is immediately enticed by the city - a futuristic
environment unlike anywhere he's ever been before. The first few days go by in a
blur: Tim meets the heads of the charity and the production team; a movie star flies
in to appear in the advert; and The Village, the five-star resort in which they're
staying, offers an almost uncanny level of customer service.
Then filming begins, a crew member dies, and things get complicated . . .
Beautiful, seductive, brilliantly managed and a bit frightening, Dubai itself is like
an advert, and takes on an increasingly unsettling atmosphere as the murder
investigation begins. The longer Tim stays, the more surreal everything seems: the
mysterious death, the ad campaign, even the charity. As Tim's assumptions
evaporate one by one in the heat of the desert city, all that's certain is that he needs
to get out before it's too late.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Pub Date: 30/6/2016
Pages: 400
Trim: 153 x 234 mm
Mark Watson is the acclaimed author of five previous novels, including Eleven, The
Knot and Hotel Alpha, which have been published in twelve languages. He is also a
stand-up comedian and has won numerous awards in Britain and Australia. He
regularly appears on TV, has had his own cult Radio 4 series and been named the
Edinburgh Festival's highest achiever of the decade by The Times. He lives in north
London. You can read more on his website at www.markwatsonthecomedian.com
ISBN: 9781447243359
Price: £14.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
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PICADOR CLASSIC
The Long View, Elizabeth Jane Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Trumpet, Jackie Kay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
A House For Mr Biswas, V. S. Naipaul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
The Discovery of France, Graham Robb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
The Patrick Melrose Novels, Edward St Aubyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
2666, Roberto Bolano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Psalm Killer, Chris Petit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
A Boy’s Own Story, Edmund White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
THE LONG VIEW
Picador Classic
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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From the bestselling author of The Light Years and Marking Time comes a
revealing portrait of a marriage.
With an introduction by Hilary Mantel.
One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not
seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even
things up: or if such notions ever occurred to him, he would have observed them
with detached amusement, and reloaded more dice.
Moving backwards in time from 1950 to 1926, The Long View presents an
unusually revealing portrait of a marriage. It traces the lives of Antonia and Conrad
Fleming through Antonia's eyes as she looks back on her married life and unravels
her choices, good and bad, and the motivation behind them. She'd opted to
surrender many decisions to her loving, intellectual husband, who'd proved so very
adept at designing their lives down to the most intricate detail. But rather than
dissolve under Conrad's protective auspices, Antonia's own powerful personality
rang clear; it was she who decided for herself the issues of greatest importance.
An uncannily authentic take on marriage from the long view - both from the
outside in, and from present to past - Antonia and Conrad Fleming's story is as
extraordinary as it is prosaic, as gut-wrenching as it is exhilarating.
FORMAT: B Format Paperback
Pub Date: 25/2/2016
Pages: 384
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Series: Picador Classic
ISBN: 9781447272243
Price: £8.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fourteen highly acclaimed novels. The
Cazalet Chronicles - The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All
Change - have become modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC
television series and most recently for BBC Radio 4. In 2002 Macmillan published
Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was
awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. She died in January 2014 at
the age of ninety.
REVIEWS
'Beautifully written and richly perceptive' Daily Telegraph
'When I read The Long View . . . I realized I would never write anything of such
subtlety and penetration: there was no point in even hoping to write a novel if this
was the standard of excellence' Andrew Brown, Guardian
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TRUMPET
Picador Classic
Jackie Kay
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A modern classic of enduring love, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize.
With an introduction by Ali Smith.
When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too,
which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.
The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret.
Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The
discovery is most devastating for their adopted son, Colman, whose bewildered fury
brings the press to the doorstep and sends his grieving mother to the sanctuary of a
remote Scottish village.
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Trumpet is a modern classic about the
lengths to which people will go for love. It is a moving story of a shared life
founded on an intricate lie, of loving deception and lasting devotion, and of the
intimate workings of the human heart.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: B Format Paperback
Pub Date: 25/2/2016
Pages: 288
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Series: Picador Classic
ISBN: 9781447289494
Price: £8.99
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. She is a poet, novelist and writer of short stories
and has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children. She has
published two collections of stories with Picador: Why Don't You Stop Talking and
Wish I Was Here; a memoir, Red Dust Road; and a collection of poems, Fiere. She
teaches at Newcastle University, and lives in Manchester.
REVIEWS
'Recounted in clear, spare, utterly unsentimental prose . . . the voices in this tender,
compassionate work were still singing in my head a couple of weeks after I'd
finished it' Observer
'The book's style works like a jazz riff, a literary improvisation of the central
melody of Joss's death' Independent on Sunday
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
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A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS
Picador Classic
V. S. Naipaul
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswas is V.
S. Naipaul's best-loved novel.
With an introduction by Teju Cole.
During these months of illness and despair he was struck again and again by the
wonder of being in his own house, the audacity of it: to walk in through his own front
gate, to bar entry to whoever he wished, to close his doors and windows every night.
Born the 'wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a
bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his forty-six years of life striving for
independence. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his
father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr Biswas yearns for a place he
can call home. He marries into the domineering Tulsi family, on whom he becomes
indignantly dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in an
arduous struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own.
A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V. S. Naipaul's
unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Heartrending and darkly comic, it has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest
novels, a classic that masterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the
backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.
FORMAT: B Format Paperback
Pub Date: 25/2/2016
Pages: 640
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Series: Picador Classic
ISBN: 9781509803507
Price: £8.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in
1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since
then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of
fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in
the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of
correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature.
REVIEWS
'A work of great comic power, qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion'
Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange
'A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels'
Newsweek
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THE DISCOVERY OF FRANCE
Picador Classic
Graham Robb
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'Elegant, entertaining and occasionally brilliant . . . As this book powerfully
demonstrates, French history is nothing if not built on paradox and
contradiction. Most importantly, Robb reminds us why France still matters.'
Observer
With an introduction by Colm Tóibín.
Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an
authority . . .
France is a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its
fashion, food and wine. Despite this, the notion of 'the French' as one nation is
relatively recent and - historically speaking - quite misleading. In order to discover
the 'real' past of France, it's not only necessary to go back in time, but also to go at a
slower pace than modern life generally allows. The Discovery of France,
illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, is the result of 14,000 miles covered
by bicycle, a literary exploration of a remarkable nation.
Winner of both the Duff Cooper and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje
Prize, The Discovery of France is a modern non-fiction classic, in which Robb takes
us across a France few will recognize - from maps and migration to magic,
language and landscape.
FORMAT: B Format Paperback
Pub Date: 25/2/2016
Pages: 480
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Series: Picador Classic
ISBN: 9781509803484
Price: £9.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: History
Subcategory: Europe
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter
College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His
2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society
of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians (2010) the City of Paris awarded him
the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.
REVIEWS
'Exhilarating . . . With gloriously apposite facts and an abundance of quirky
anecdotes and thumbnail sketches of people, places and customs, Robb, on brilliant
form, takes us on a stunning journey through the historical landscape of France'
Independent
'This splendid history of France mixes the rambling charm of a traveller with a
scholar's rigorous research . . . At once history, psychogeography, itinerary and
cabinet of curiosities, The Discovery of France is an astute sociological catalogue of
France's changing idea of itself . . . It's [also] an extraordinary journey of discovery
that will delight even the most indolent armchair traveller' Daily Telegraph
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THE PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS
Picador Classic
Edward St Aubyn
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Acclaimed for their searing wit and their deep humanity, this magnificent cycle of
novels - in which Patrick Melrose battles to survive the savageries of his childhood
and lead a self-determined life - is one of the major achievements in English
fiction.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. His superbly acclaimed Melrose
novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope (published collectively as the Some
Hope trilogy), Mother's Milk (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006) and At
Last. He is also the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge and Lost for
Words.
REVIEWS
'Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation' Alan Hollinghurst
'I've loved Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now' David
Nicholls
FORMAT: B Format Paperback
Pub Date: 16/6/2016
Pages: 880
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Series: Picador Classic
ISBN: 9781447253525
Price: £14.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
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2666
Picador Classic
Roberto Bolaño
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'A novel of stupefying ambition, Bolaño's master statement' Observer
With an introduction by Ben Lerner.
The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty
veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop
clinging to life because we are life.
Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl, a vortex for lost souls.
Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a
teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' author. But
there is a darker side to the town: girls and women are disappearing at an alarming
rate and it is fast becoming the scene of a series of horrifying crimes. As 2666
progresses, the sense of conspiracy grows, and the shadow of the apocalypse is
drawing closer.
Written with burning intensity in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666
became a sensation on publication and has been hailed across the world as Bolaño's
masterpiece. Terrifying, awe-inspiring and beautiful, it is the classic novel that has
come to define one of Latin America's greatest writers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: B Format Paperback
Pub Date: 16/6/2016
Pages: 912
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Series: Picador Classic
ISBN: 9781447289593
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and
Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the
Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National
Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
REVIEWS
'A masterpiece in its audacity . . . This novel defies summation: it is epic,
tangential, nomadic, and yet a magisterial weave of differing literary genres. It is
hard to believe that there will be a better book published this year' Sunday
Telegraph
'It's blindingly obvious you are being seduced by one of the greatest and most
distinctive voices in modern fiction . . . Readers who have snacked on a writer such
as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolaño' Sunday Times
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THE PSALM KILLER
Picador Classic
Chris Petit
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'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
With an introduction by Alan Moore.
It was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of
city wasteland - those derelict spaces once described to him by a child as the blank bits
where things had been before they'd got blown up.
In Belfast in 1985 a killer stalks the streets. It is a time and place ruled and divided
by political and religious differences, but this series of crimes cuts across all those
boundaries. Detective Inspector Cross, together with a young policewoman, must
enter a maze of conspiracy, paranoia and tainted secrets in order to uncover the
motives of the murderer. As the investigation draws closer to the truth, they find
themselves in a nightmare world, with no hope of escape.
The Psalm Killer is Chris Petit's epic thriller set during the Irish Troubles.
Masterfully written, disturbing and exciting, it is a book of immense intelligence
and a real classic of its genre.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Petit is a film-maker and writer. He lives in north London.
FORMAT: B Format Paperback
Pub Date: 16/6/2016
Pages: 646
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Series: Picador Classic
ISBN: 9781509801169
Price: £8.99
REVIEWS
'An example of the genre near its best. Gorky Park with something to spare; well
worth anyone's weekend' Guardian
'In the tradition of Silence of the Lambs . . . a deeply satisfying and sophisticated
thriller which approaches the Northern Ireland conflict with the intelligence it
deserves' Financial Times
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: Mystery & Detective
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A BOY'S OWN STORY
Picador Classic
Edmund White
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'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
With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst.
It was his power that stupefied me and made me regard my knowledge as nothing
more than hired cleverness he might choose to show off at a dinner party.
A Boy's Own Story traces an unnamed narrator's coming-of-age during the 1950s.
Beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, the boy
struggles with his sexuality, seeking consolation in art and literature, and in his own
fantastic imagination as he fills his head with romantic expectations. The result is a
book of exquisite poignancy and humour that moves towards a conclusion which
will allow the boy to leave behind his childhood forever.
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of
autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its
pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. Lyrical and powerfully evocative, this is an
American literary treasure.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: B Format Paperback
Pub Date: 16/6/2016
Pages: 256
Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Series: Picador Classic
ISBN: 9781509813865
Price: £8.99
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Category: Fiction
Subcategory: General
Edmund White, born in 1940, is an American novelist, short-story writer and critic.
He has received many awards and distinctions; among these, he is a Member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres, and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He now
teaches at Princeton University.
REVIEWS
'Edmund White has crossed The Catcher in the Rye with De Profundis, J. D.
Salinger with Oscar Wilde, to create an extraordinary novel' New York Times
'The boy's self-portrait shines with authenticity, he is an extraordinary but plausible
mixture of sweetness and deviousness . . . White's prose is marvellously sensual
while his eye is sharply satiric . . . outstanding' Guardian
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