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Meet Gloria, Gam Gam, Darkness, Miss Hennepin County, and their unlikely owner. Over the course of a single year, our nameless narrator heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges that caring for another creature entails. From the freezing nights of a brutal winter to a sweltering summer which brings a surprise tornado, she battles predators, bad luck, and the uncertainty of a future that may not look anything like the one she always imagined • Brood by Jackie Polzin is a darkly witty, deeply moving and startling original debut novel of motherhood and grief, full of sorrow, joy and unrelenting hope. Perfect for fans of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout

In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe – to understand what it means to be human • The peacock mantis shrimp can throw a punch that can fracture aquarium walls • The great grey owl can hear many decibels lower than the human ear • The star-nosed mole’s miraculous nose allows it to catch worms in as little as 120 milliseconds • In Sentient we also meet the four-eyed spookfish and its dark vision, the vampire bat and its remarkable powers of touch, as well as the common octopus, the Goliath catfish and the duck-billed platypus. Each zoological marvel illustrates the surprising sensory powers that lie within us and enables us to engage with the world in ways we never knew possible

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books • Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing • Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside • Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a novel like no other • Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature

This Picador Classic edition of Minette Walters' The Sculptress features an introduction by Stephanie Merritt, journalist and author of While You Sleep • 'It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed… Olive Martin is a dangerous woman. I advise you to be extremely wary in your dealings with her.' • The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin had pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering her sister and mother, earning herself the chilling nickname 'The Sculptress' • Journalist Rosalind Leigh knew this much before her first meeting with Olive, currently serving a life sentence. How could Roz have foreseen that the encounter was destined to change her life - for ever?

Мир просто идет своим чередом. Ничто особо не имеет значения, понимаешь? Я имею в виду, действительно имеет значение. но потом иногда, всего на секунду, ты обретаешь эту благодать, эту веру в то, что это действительно имеет большое значение • С вступительным словом от Лидии Дэвис • Рассказы Люсии Берлин из "Руководства для уборщиц" составляют один из самых замечательных невоспетых сборников американской художественной литературы двадцатого века • С необычайной честностью и магнетизмом Лючия Берлин приглашает нас в свою богатую странствующую жизнь: выпивку, беспорядок, боль, красоту, моменты удивления и грации, с голосом остроумным, анархичным, сострадательным и совершенно уникальным • Книга на английском языке • Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books • The world just goes along

John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood • The first volume in McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival • Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature

Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels, a classic that evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad • Mr Biswas has been told since the day of his birth that misfortune will follow him – and so it has. Meaning only to avoid punishment, he causes the death of his father and the dissolution of his family. Wanting simply to flirt with a beautiful woman, he ends up marrying her. But in spite of endless setbacks, Mr Biswas is determined to achieve independence, and so he begins the gruelling struggle to buy a home of his own • Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature

Роман Эллиса "Американский психопат" стремительно стал современной классикой, • Патрик Бэйтмен — красивый, хорошо образованный, интеллигентный молодой человек. Днем он работает на Уолл-стрит, но это служит лишь довеском к его истинному призванию. То, чем он занимается вечерами и по ночам, не может присниться разнеженному обывателю и в самом страшном сне. Ему двадцать шесть лет, и он живет своей собственной Американской Мечтой • Книга на английском языке • Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books • I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane? • Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, and reservations at every new restaurant in town. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare… • With an introduction by Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time