Picador Press Books

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...

Katharine Towers / Floating Man

Appropriately for a book haunted by music, Katharine Towers’ poems exhibit an almost pianistic sense of timing, touch and tone. In The Floating Man, Towers writes about weight and...

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...

Michael Frayn / The Trick of It (Large Paperback)

He knows everything about her before they the make of pen she writes with, her exact height, the various honorary degrees she holds. He knows more about her nine novels and 27 short stories than she...

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...

Thora Hjörleifsdóttir - Magma - HB - Picador UK 2021 ( First Published as Kuvika - Iceland 2019)

A compulsive, propulsive debut about a young woman's haunting experience of love, abuse, and sex in an era of pornification by one of Iceland's most provocative writers.20-year old Lilja is in love...