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Assumption by Percival Everett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy lead ...Show more
Damned If I Do by Percival Everett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a san ...Show more
Dr. No by Percival Everett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Wala Kitu is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. W ...Show more
Erasure (Adapted for the screen as American Fiction) by Percival Everett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Introduced by Brandon Taylor - Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life - Erasure is an unforgettable, satirical but tender novel about race and cultural expectations in contemporary America. 'Truly brilliant.' Los Angeles Review of Books 'A classic.' The Times 'A remarkable novel.' Wall Street Journal Wi ...Show more
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'A scandalously under-recognised contemporary master' - The Wall Street Journal I am Not Sidney Poitier is a hilarious and irresistible take on race, class and identity. The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier's mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resem ...Show more
James by Percival Everett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in N ...Show more
James - A Novel by Percival Everett
$58.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. - From the "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime When the enslaved ...Show more
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for FictionA man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the ...Show more
So Much Blue by Percival Everett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression' NEW YORK TIMESKevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet an ...Show more
Telephone by Percival Everett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'[Percival Everett's] books always feel like an encounter with substantive, playful thinking . . . sad, affecting and marvelous' New York TimesA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Telephone is an astonishing story of love, loss and grief from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Era ...Show more
Telephone: A Novel by Everett Percival
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
An astonishing new novel of loss and grief from "one of our culture's preeminent novelists" (Los Angeles Times)Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area--the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand C ...Show more
The Trees by Percival Everett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of ...Show more