Picador imprint: 544 books
Chasing New Horizons
Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern...
by Wayne Koestenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Wayne Koestenbaum considers the meaning of humiliation in this eloquent work of cultural critique and personal reflection.
The lives of people both famous and obscure are filled with scarlet-letter moments when their dirty laundry sees daylight. In these moments we not only witness the reversibility...
The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
NAMED THE #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, A WITTY, INFORMATIVE, AND POPULAR TRAVELOGUE ABOUT THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES AND HOW THEY MAY NOT BE AS HAPPY OR AS PERFECT AS WE ASSUME
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years,...
No Logo
No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
NO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide.
In the last decade, No Logo has become an...
Super Sushi Ramen Express
One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People comes Super Sushi Ramen Express, a fascinating and funny culinary journey through Japan
Japan is arguably the preeminent food nation on earth; it’s a mecca for the world’s greatest chefs and has more Michelin stars than any other country....
The Memory Painter
A Novel of Love and Reincarnation
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
WINNER OF THE RWA PRISM AWARD FOR BEST TIME TRAVEL/STEAMPUNK AND A FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST BOOK
A thriller, a romance, a 10,000-year adventure…The Memory Painter is “the guy-meets-girl story as you've never heard it before" (Refinery29).
Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous...
The World Is Flat 3.0
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
This Independence Day edition of The World is Flat 3.0 includes an an exclusive preview of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, on sale September 5th, 2011.
A New Edition of the Phenomenal...
by Chris West
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Stamps tell a story-and Chris West's book is the unique, fascinating tale of Great Britain told through its stamps.
Hailed by The Times of London as "a splendid reminder of the philatelic glories of the past," A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps tells the rich, layered, and...
The Laying On of Hands
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Three stories in one volume from one of Britain's most admired authors and playwrights. The Laying On Of Hands is Bennett at his inimitable best in this funny, and mischievous satire about a society memorial service for a rather special masseur who has died at a tragically young age in Peru.
In...
Oneida
From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety.
In...
City of Devils
The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Now one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of the Year"
From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking—winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction—comes City of Devils, a rags-to-riches tale of two self-made...
Joni
The Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Selected by Harper's Bazaar as one of the "Best New Books of 2017 (So Far)"
A Library Journal Fall Editors' Pick
"Nearly 50 years’ worth of critical efforts to solve Mitchell’s mysteries have now been rounded up in Barney Hoskyns’s Joni: The Anthology....what comes through...
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music
From Adele to Ziggy, the Real A to Z of Rock and Pop
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music is an incredible and opinionated collection of celebrated cultural critic Dylan Jones's thoughts on more than 350 of the most important artists around the world—alive and dead, big and small, at length and in brief. This A to Z reference is the true musical...
The Old, Weird America
The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A Special Edition with a New Introduction and an Updated Discography
This is Greil Marcus's acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967, which introduced a phrase that has become part of the culture: "the old, weird America." It is this country that the...