Picador imprint: 544 books
by Sara Maitland
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
IN THIS AGE OF CONSTANT CONNECTIVITY, LEARN HOW TO ENJOY SOLITUDE AND FIND HAPPINESS WITHOUT OTHERS.
Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is antisocial and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom, and individualism are more highly...
Liars in Love
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Now available in eBook for the first time, Richard Yates's groundbreaking collection of short fiction.
The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters,...
The Bridesmaids
True Tales of Love, Envy, Loyalty . . . and Terrible Dresses
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
"An entertaining beach read… [and] a nice way to provide your besties with reading material for the bachelorette weekend."—Lauren Conrad
WHAT DO A FORMER FASHION MODEL, AN EX-NUN, AND A FRAT BOY HAVE IN COMMON? VIRTUALLY NOTHING, EXCEPT THAT EACH HAS EXPERIENCED A UNIVERSAL RITE...
by Richard Meier
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Misadventure won the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize, and is Richard Meier’s first collection. Misadventure is a book about what we learn, and what we refuse to learn: although Meier’s poems are often deceptively quiet in their address, the reader will soon discover a poet capable of illuminating...
A Tragic Honesty
The Life and Work of Richard Yates
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The first biography of acclaimed American novelist and story writer Richard Yates
Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age....
Land's End
A Walk in Provincetown
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
"Cunningham's short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." -The Washington Post
"Easily read on a plane-and-ferry journey from here to the sandy, tide-washed tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Land's End is that most perfect of companions:...
by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s debut collection for Picador introduces a young poet with a remarkable range of imaginative tactics at her disposal, and seems to announce not one, but several new voices. Not In These Shoes is an act of uncanny ventriloquism, and a distinct spirit haunts each of Wynne-Rhydderch’s...
by Philip Delves Broughton
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Explore how entrepreneurial thinking can dramatically improve your work, life and relationships
Having the drive, ambition and inspiration to start a new business takes a special mind-set and self-confidence—think Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg. It’s no wonder that we regard successful...
by Dr. Christopher Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS IN HIGHLY-PORTABLE PAPERBACKS, FEATURING FRENCH FLAPS AND DECKLE EDGES, THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS "DAMNABLY CUTE." WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WILL DIRECT YOU TOWARDS A VARIETY OF USEFUL IDEAS THAT ARE GUARANTEED...
The Lady in the Van
The Screenplay
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The screenplay edition of the major motion picture adaptation, starring Maggie Smith, of Alan Bennett's acclaimed story "The Lady in the Van"
From acclaimed author and playwright Alan Bennett, whose smash hit The History Boys won a Tony Award for Best Play, comes the screenplay of...
City of Thorns
Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
To the charity workers, Dabaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort.
Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement,...
Seeds of Terror
How Drugs, Thugs, and Crime Are Reshaping the Afghan War
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Most Americans think of the Taliban and al Qaeda as a bunch of bearded fanatics fighting an Islamic crusade from caves in Afghanistan. But that doesn't explain their astonishing comeback along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Why is it eight years after we invaded Afghanistan, the CIA says that these...
The Third Bank of the River
Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
During the 2014 World Cup, an isolated Amazonian tribe emerged from the jungle on the misty border of Peru and Brazil, escaping massacre at the hands of illegal loggers. A year later, in the jungle capital of Manaus, a bloody weekend of reprisal killings inflames a drug war that blurs the line between...
Monsieur de Saint-George
Virtuoso, Swordsman, Revolutionary: A Legendary Life Rediscovered
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The first full biography of one of the greatest figures of eighteenth-century Europe, known in his time as the "Black Mozart"
Virtually forgotten until now, his life is the stuff of legend. Born in 1739 in Guadeloupe to a slave mother and a French noble father, he became the finest...