Picador Press Books

Jim Crace / The Gift of Stones

The stoneworkers remain oblivious to the winds of change in the outside world--until a storyteller returns with a strange, angry woman whose death foretells the coming of metal and the end of...

Joe Queenan / My Goodness : a Cynic's Short-Lived Search for Sainthood (Large Paperback)

Joe Queenan knows what a maleficent scuzz he is. In My Goodness, he admits he wrote a Barbra Streisand profile called "Sacred Cow" in his scurrilous book If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be...

Keath Fraser / Worst Journeys : The Picador Book of Travel

   Experience -- at comfortable second-hand -- a selection of the worst journeys in the world, described by some of the best writers on travel in the world. Worst Journeys combines...

Oliver Sacks - Awakenings ( Vintage Picador PB - 1982)

 'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major...

Philip Baker / Blood Posse

This book follows the life of Danny, a young Jamaican growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s. At the age of 18, in the middle of a sectarian war, he gets his hand on a gun and his life completely...

Richard E. Grant - With Nails : The Film Diaries of Richard E.Grant - HB

'An exceptionally vivid and penetrating insight into Hollywood film-making ...What most of us want is gossip about stars, and this is something the book delivers in spades ...Qualifies for that...

Robert Sabbag - Snowblind : A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade - 1979

  When it was first published in the mid-seventies, Snowblind established itself as an essential piece of true crime writing. The story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the cocaine...