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Picador is to launch a new paperback Picador Classic list, with the first titles to be released including Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho and The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy.
The books will include new introductions from writers and public figures, and many of the titles will also include afterwords from their authors, “providing fascinating insight into the background to their original publication”. The commissioning editor for the introductions is Catherine Taylor.
Author Irvine Welsh will introduce American Psycho, while Jeanette Winterson will introduce The World’s Wife.
Other titles on the launch list include The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, with an introduction by Sebastian Faulks, and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, with an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker.
The 24-strong launch list [full details below], will be released on 8th January next year, will be followed by regular new Picador Classic releases, including lists in June, August and October 2015.
Picador said it was “building a library of extraordinary voices of timeless quality: our recommendations to all our readers”. The list will bring “neglected classics” back into print, as well as highlight great voices.
All titles will be printed with newly designed covers, on high quality paper stock and with thick cover boards, and there will also be a dedicated Picador Classic website (www.picador.com/classic) which will provide readers with background information.
The full launch list:
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, with an introduction by Irvine Welsh
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, with an introduction by Andrew Solomon
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, with an introduction by Philip Hensher
Dispatches by Michael Herr, with an introduction by Kevin Powers
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller, with an introduction by Anne Enright
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton, with an introduction by Sheila Heti
Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams, with an introduction by John Hurt
Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth, with an introduction by Eimear McBride
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman, with an introduction by Jayne Anne Phillips
The Book of Evidence by John Banville, with an introduction by Colm Tóibín
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe, with an introduction by Ross Raisin
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester, with an introduction by John Banville
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, with an introduction by Sebastian Faulks
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, with an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, with an introduction by Will Self
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason, with an introduction by Sadie Jones
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes, with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane
The South by Colm Tóibín, with an introduction by Roy Foster
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, with an introduction by Xiaolu Guo
The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy, with an introduction by Jeanette Winterson
Them by Jon Ronson, with an introduction by Russell Brand
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James, with an introduction by P J O’Rourke
Waterland by Graham Swift, with an introduction by John Burnside
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with our Families by Philip Gourevitch (introduction t.b.a.)