Picador imprint: 544 books
Five Bells
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
A Picador Paperback Original
On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water.
But just as Circular...
The Roommates
True Tales of Friendship, Rivalry, Romance, and Disturbingly Close Quarters
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
THE SECOND ENTRY IN THE PICADOR TRUE TALES SERIES: ONE OF LIFE'S TRICKIEST RITES OF PASSAGE COLLECTED INTO AN UNFORGETTABLE VOLUME OF STORIES
The fraught relationship between roommates is a true cultural obsession. Shows like Friends, The Golden Girls, The Odd Couple, and New Girl have held...
Abnormal
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing the lectures in thirteen volumes.
The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining...
Rotten
No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
"I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon
Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny...
Raw
My Journey into the Wu-Tang
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A PERFECT COMPANION READ TO THE SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY, WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN
Selected as a Best Book of the Year by Esquire
"Couldn't put it down." – Charlamagne Tha God
"Mesmerizing." – Raekwon da Chef
"Insightful, moving, necessary." – Shea...
Never Drank the Kool-Aid
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
His name is Touré--just Touré--and like many of the musicians, athletes, and celebrities he's profiled, he has affected the way that we think about culture in America. He has profiled Eminem, 50 Cent, and Alicia Keys for the cover of Rolling Stone. He's played high-stakes poker with Jay-Z and basketball...
A Woman in Berlin
Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow...
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine
In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage.
The guerrilla campaign that followed was every...
Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters
An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF SYLVIA BROOKE, THE LAST WHITE RULER OF THE JUNGLE KINGDOM OF BORNEO
Sylvia Brooke was one of the more exotic and outrageous figures of the twentieth century. Otherwise known as the Ranee of Sarawak, she was the wife of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah, whose...
The House by the Lake
One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A Finalist for the Costa Biography Award
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by
The Times (London) • New Statesman (London) • Daily Express (London) • Commonweal magazine
In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother...
Dress Codes
Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2003
"There's no news like hearing irrefutable proof that you're not the sole cause of your parents' woes, your father's drinking, your unshakable feeling that you're not put together quite right and finding out the problem all along was your father's unrequited yearning for angora." —Noelle...
A Disappearance in Damascus
Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Winner of the Freedom to Read Award
Winner of the Hubert Evans Prize
In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance...
by The Paris Review
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
For more than fifty years, The Paris Review has brought us revelatory and revealing interviews with the literary lights of our age.
This critically acclaimed series continues with another eclectic lineup, including Philip Roth, Ezra Pound, Haruki Murakami, Marilynne Robinson, Stephen Sondheim,...
by Alan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van," his unforgettable account of Miss Shepherd,...