Picador: 364 books
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 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...
Aliens
The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T. (extraterrestrials);...
The Book of Men
Eighty Writers on How to Be a Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
EIGHTY PIECES OF SHORT FICTION AND NONFICTION ON MANHOOD BY SOME OF THE WORLD'S BEST WRITERS, PRESENTED BY COLUM MCCANN, ESQUIRE, AND NARRATIVE 4
To help launch the literary nonprofit Narrative 4, Esquire asked eighty of the world's greatest writers to chip in with a story, all with the title,...
Over the Moat
Love Among the Ruins of Imperial Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In the fall of 1992, James Sullivan travels to Vietnam to bicycle from Saigon to Hanoi. He has just finished graduate school and has an assignment to write a magazine story about a country that is still subject to a U.S. trade embargo. But in Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam, the planned three-month...
Gilligan's Wake
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A kaleidoscopic novel about our last American century
A skipper plies the waters of the South Pacific, running ammunition and passing the time with navy buddies McHale and Jack Kennedy, remembering the sweet caress of Screw-Me Susie. A New York millionaire reunites with his prep school classmate...
by Wesley Stace
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
One of *The Wall Street Journal'*s Best fiction books of 2011
England, 1923. A gentleman critic named Leslie Shepherd tells the macabre story of a gifted young composer, Charles Jessold. On the eve of his revolutionary new opera's premiere, Jessold murders his wife and her lover, and then commits...
by Damon Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
USING PHILOSOPHY TO EXPLORE THE BIG IDEAS BEHIND FITNESS AND WAYS TO ENJOY EXERCISE WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR MIND BEHIND
It can often seem as though existence is split in two: body and mind, flesh and spirit, moving and thinking. In the office or at study we are ‘mind workers,' with seemingly...