Hope: A Tragedy

Shalom Auslander

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Sunday Times

Scabrous and determinedly iconoclastic . . . one of the funniest and most thought-provoknig novels you'll read all year.
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Nick Hornby

Helen Fielding is one of the funniest writers in Britain and Bridget Jones is the creation of a comic genius
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The Times

As if his Loony Tunes run-ins with men who stare at goats were not bad or mad enough, Ronson is now waylaid by a code-cracking quest that leads him to suspect that there is madness everywhere and that society is not based on rationality but built on insanity...

Picador WBN Your Thoughts On The Books posted by Lee Dibble

Monday 19th Dec 2011 | Blog

The World Book Night 2012 Selection

Below is the list of 25 books selected to be given away on World Book Night 2012. What do you think of this year's selection?

All the Pretty Horses: What the Press Say posted by Sophie Jonathan

Friday 20th Jan 2012 | Blog

All the Pretty Horses was immediately hailed as an American classic, and here are just a few of the glowing reviews it received on publication:

Bridget Jones: from Column to Book to Media Phenomenon posted by Sophie Jonathan

Tuesday 31st Jan 2012 | Blog

When Helen Fielding began to write the column, she thought it might last for six weeks. By 2007, Guardian readers in an online poll placed Bridget Jones’s Diary alongside The Catcher in the Rye and Nineteen Eighty-Four among the ten novels which best defined the twentieth century. Academics today wrangle over what it might or might not tell us about the present state of feminism or post-feminism. Book-length critical works are published on it. Fan fiction based on the characters proliferates online. Bridget Jones has come a very long way since 1995.

Hope: A Tragedy - Join the debate posted by Paul Baggaley

Tuesday 31st Jan 2012 | Blog

‘A bit like Saul Bellow re-written by Jerry Seinfeld.’

Picador Covers from the Past posted by Paul Baggaley

Wednesday 25th Jan 2012 | Blog

It's Picador's 40th Anniversary, so what better time to look back at some of our classic covers? Here is a selection of great Picador covers from authors both past and present.

 

All the Pretty Horses: Adaptation for Screen posted by Sophie Jonathan

Wednesday 18th Jan 2012 | Blog

All the Pretty Horses Trailer

Cormac McCarthy's The Border Trilogy posted by Sophie Jonathan

Wednesday 18th Jan 2012 | Blog

McCarthy's novels All the Pretty Horses, Cities of the Plain and The Crossing, are known collectively as 'The Border Trilogy'

Naomi Wood at Waterstones, East Kilbride.

Friday 17th Feb 2012 | Event

Naomi Wood will be discussing The Godless Boys alongside Nina de la Mer.

The Picador Book of Love Poems Valentine’s Day Competition posted by Sarah Blake

Tuesday 31st Jan 2012 | Blog

Win a set of beautiful Picador Poetry anthologies, including The Picador Book of Love Poems