Picador imprint: 544 books
The Un-Discovered Islands
An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In The Un-Discovered Islands, critically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack takes the reader on fascinating adventures to the mysterious and forgotten corners of the map.
Be prepared to be captivated by the astounding tales of two dozen islands once believed to be real but no longer on the map....
by Anne Trubek
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“Timely . . . [the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”—Booklist
The essays in Voices from the Rust Belt "address segregated schools, rural childhoods,...
The Flag
The Basis for the CNN Films Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
TO COINCIDE WITH THE MAJOR DOCUMENTARY, THE FLAG, FROM CNN FILMS—BASED ON DAVID FRIEND'S MASTERFUL ACCOUNT OF THE ICONIC IMAGE THAT DEFINED AMERICAN RESILIENCE AFTER 9/11
The Flag tells the fascinating and mysterious story behind the iconic image that captivated a nation. Excerpted from his...
Fences and Windows
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Naomi Klein's No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries.
Named one of Ms Magazine's Women of Year in 2001, and declared by...
by Eva Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books series
Time has always been the great given, the element that establishes the governing facts of human fate that cannot be...
Caring Economics
Conversations on Altruism and Compassion, Between Scientists, Economists, and the Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A COLLECTION OF INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED SCIENTISTS AND ECONOMISTS IN DIALOGUE WITH HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA, ADDRESSING THE NEED FOR A MORE ALTRUISTIC ECONOMY
Can the hyperambitious, bottom-line-driven practices of the global economy incorporate compassion into the pursuit of wealth? Or...
A Buzz in the Meadow
The Natural History of a French Farm
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
A CONSERVATIONIST'S DEEPLY PERSONAL AND FASCINATING REFLECTION ON OWNING AND REVITALIZING A FARM IN RURAL FRANCE
A Sting in the Tale, Dave Goulson's account of a lifetime studying bees, was a powerful call to arms for nature lovers everywhere. Brilliantly reviewed, it was shortlisted for the...
100 Million Years of Food
What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A fascinating tour through the evolution of the human diet, and how we can improve our health by understanding our complicated history with food.
There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health: eat a lot of...
A Sting in the Tale
My Adventures with Bumblebees
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GREAT NATURE WRITERS SUCH AS E.O. WILSON AND CHARMING MEMOIRS LIKE GERALD DURRELL'S MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS, THIS FASCINATING BOOK WILL ALTER THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT BUMBLEBEES.
Dave Goulson became obsessed with wildlife as a small boy growing up in rural Shropshire,...
by Garret Keizer
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
American essayist and Harper's contributing editor Garret Keizer offers a brilliant, literate look at our strip-searched, over-shared, viral-videoed existence.
Body scans at the airport, candid pics on Facebook, a Twitter account for your stray thoughts, and a surveillance camera on every street...
The Eye of the Storm
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
In White's 1973 classic, terrifying matriarch Elizabeth Hunter is facing death while her impatient children—Sir Basil, the celebrated actor, and Princess de Lascabane, an adoptive French aristocrat—wait. It is the dying mother who will command attention, and who in the midst of disaster will look...
Songdogs
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland,...
The Prisoner of Hell Gate
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
FOUR DECADES AFTER TYPHOID MARY WENT TO HER GRAVE, FIVE CURIOUS GRADUATE STUDENTS STRUGGLE TO ESCAPE ALIVE FROM THE ABANDONED ISLAND THAT ONCE IMPRISONED HER. CONTAGION DOESN’T DIE. IT JUST WAITS.
In the Hell Gate section of New York’s East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries,...
by Elias Khoury
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
City Gates was first published in Arabic in 1981, and in English in 1993. It is a further exploration of the themes of exile, dislocation, and identity. Elias Khoury's early works show him finding the distinctive voice that explodes in his epic Gate of the Sun.
A stranger arrives at the gates...