Picador: 364 books
Super Sushi Ramen Express
One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People comes Super Sushi Ramen Express, a fascinating and funny culinary journey through Japan
Japan is arguably the preeminent food nation on earth; it’s a mecca for the world’s greatest chefs and has more Michelin stars than any other country....
The Memory Painter
A Novel of Love and Reincarnation
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
WINNER OF THE RWA PRISM AWARD FOR BEST TIME TRAVEL/STEAMPUNK AND A FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST BOOK
A thriller, a romance, a 10,000-year adventure…The Memory Painter is “the guy-meets-girl story as you've never heard it before" (Refinery29).
Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous...
The World Is Flat 3.0
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
This Independence Day edition of The World is Flat 3.0 includes an an exclusive preview of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, on sale September 5th, 2011.
A New Edition of the Phenomenal...
by Chris West
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Stamps tell a story-and Chris West's book is the unique, fascinating tale of Great Britain told through its stamps.
Hailed by The Times of London as "a splendid reminder of the philatelic glories of the past," A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps tells the rich, layered, and...
The Laying On of Hands
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Three stories in one volume from one of Britain's most admired authors and playwrights. The Laying On Of Hands is Bennett at his inimitable best in this funny, and mischievous satire about a society memorial service for a rather special masseur who has died at a tragically young age in Peru.
In...
Oneida
From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety.
In...
City of Devils
The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Now one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of the Year"
From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking—winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction—comes City of Devils, a rags-to-riches tale of two self-made...
Joni
The Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Selected by Harper's Bazaar as one of the "Best New Books of 2017 (So Far)"
A Library Journal Fall Editors' Pick
"Nearly 50 years’ worth of critical efforts to solve Mitchell’s mysteries have now been rounded up in Barney Hoskyns’s Joni: The Anthology....what comes through...
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music
From Adele to Ziggy, the Real A to Z of Rock and Pop
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music is an incredible and opinionated collection of celebrated cultural critic Dylan Jones's thoughts on more than 350 of the most important artists around the world—alive and dead, big and small, at length and in brief. This A to Z reference is the true musical...
The Old, Weird America
The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A Special Edition with a New Introduction and an Updated Discography
This is Greil Marcus's acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967, which introduced a phrase that has become part of the culture: "the old, weird America." It is this country that the...
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...
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....