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Picador Books
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Before She Met Me
Julian Barnes
Graham was an historian: he was meant to be an expert on the past. But there were aspects of it, that couldn't be subdued, that simply carried on, lively and painful, as if they were the present. He minded very...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/1998
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The Last Grain Race
Eric Newby
At the age of 18, Eric Newby signed on as an apprentice on the four-masted sailing ship Moshulu of the Erikson line for the round trip from Europe to Australia and back, outwards by way of the Cape of Good...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/1995
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Blood Meridian Or, the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
Built upon the fortunes of a 14 year old kid, this book covers the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West.
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/1994
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Talking it Over
Julian Barnes
This account of love's vicissitudes begins as a comedy of misunderstanding, then slowly darkens and deepens, drawing the reader into the quagmires of the heart. The author also wrote Metroland , Before She Met Me , Flaubert's Parrot and A...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/07/1992
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Running Dog
Don DeLillo
A supposedly unique video of Hitler's sexual antics is a desirable commodity for a variety of people. Lightborne, an ageing dealer in all art forms of a perverted nature, claims to have access to the tape and makes contact with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/01/1992
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My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle
Marcel Pagnol
Two books in one volume of Pagnol's childhood memoirs. The stories evoke the sun-baked Provencal countryside and show the young Marcel spending happy hours following in his father's and uncle's footsteps fishing and trapping during the long summer months.
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/09/1991
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Something Leather
Alasdair Gray
The loves and lives of June, Senga and Donalda are told in this book which covers the period 1963 to 1990. Also featured are unhappy children, a liberal headmistress, a tobacconist's family, a commercial traveller, a lighthouse keeper and a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/08/1991
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Miles The Autobiography
Miles Davis,
Quincy Troupe
A frank autobiography of the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. This book records his life - the music, the women and the drugs. It talks about the white promotors and producers who exploited black musicians as well as the critics.
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/12/1990
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The Real Frank Zappa Book
Frank Zappa,
Peter Occhiogrosso
The legendary Frank Zappa, one of the most influential, innovative and controversial musical artists for the past 20 years, takes us on a wild, funny trip through his life and times. Along the way, Zappa offers his inimitable views on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/1990
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The Big Red Train Ride
Eric Newby
The Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35 minutes. In 1977 Eric Newby set out with his wife, an official guide and a photographer...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/11/1989
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For Love and Money
Jonathan Raban
A selection of Jonathan Raban's essays, reportage, travel writings and literary criticism, linked with a narrative thread that attempts the question 'Why do you write?'
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/12/1988
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The Enchanter
Vladimir Nabokov
Beginning the theme that continued with LOLITA, a man attempts to justify his erotic obsession with a young girl by marrying her ailing mother, whose death soon leaves him as the sole guardian of the pre-pubescent child.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/12/1987
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Coasting
Jonathan Raban
In 1982 Jonathan Raban set out alone in a 30 foot ketch to sail around Britain. He had never before handled a boat at sea, but wanted to inspect the strange country where he lived. This book is part travel...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/10/1987
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White Noise
Don DeLillo
Jack Gladney, head of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill, is afraid of death, as is his wife Babette and his colleague Murray who runs a seminar on car crashes. The author exposes our common obsession with mortality, and Jack and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/10/1986
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On the Shores of the Mediterranean
Eric Newby
A humorous account of the travels of Eric Newby and his wife Wanda, round the Mediterranean littoral starting from Naples onwards. Last published in 1985.
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/08/1985
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Something Wholesale
Eric Newby
An overview of the adventures of Eric Newby during his time as a commercial traveller working in the world of haute couture for the family firm of Lane and Newby, from his repatriation as a prisoner-of-war in 1945 until he...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/1985
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Ragtime
Edgar L. Doctorow
This novel recounts the interrelated early 20th-century lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvement with Evelyn Nesbit, Henry Ford, Houdini, Morgan, Freud, Zapata, and other period notables.
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/01/1985
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A Traveller's Life
Eric Newby
The author's life of travel began with strange adventures in prams, forays into the lush jungles of Harrods with his mother and into the perilous slums of darkest Hammersmith on his way to school. This book chronicles the whole range...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/1983
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Slowly Down the Ganges
Eric Newby
The story of the 1,200 mile journey made by Eric Newby and his wife down the holy river of India, travelling in a variety of boats, and sometimes by rail, bus and bullock carts, and staying on sandbanks, in villages...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/01/1983
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