Literary Fiction
Acclaimed works from prize-winning Picador authors, including Edward St Aubyn and Alan Hollinghurst. From must-read literary sensations like A Little Life to timeless classics like Plainsong, these are books that challenge conventions, spark debates and feed imaginations.
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The Golden Hours
Louisa Young

The Speckled Band
Arthur Conan Doyle

The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe

Jack and Alice
Jane Austen

The Daughters of The Late Colonel
Katherine Mansfield

A Little Cloud
James Joyce

The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde

An Unwritten Novel
Virginia Woolf

A Carnival Jangle
Alice Dunbar Nelson

The Home-Coming
Rabindranath Tagore

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Bridge
Colm Tóibín

Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu

Classic Weird Stories
Emily Alder

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Among Friends
Hal Ebbott

Little Wild
Laura Evans

Summer Island
Kristin Hannah

The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan

New Skin
Sarah Wang

Rules of the Heart
Janice Hadlow

Good and Evil and Other Stories
Samanta Schweblin

Crudo
Olivia Laing

Ripeness
Sarah Moss

The Repentants
Kate Foster

Before I Knew I Loved You
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

John of John
Douglas Stuart

The Secret Keeper
Kate Morton

The Sunshine Man
Emma Stonex

Thirst Trap
Gráinne O'Hare

New York: A Literary Anthology
J. Michelle Coghlan

Classic Summer Stories
Becky Brown

Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin

Fair Play
Louise Hegarty

Harvest
Jim Crace

This Census-Taker
China Miéville

American War
Omar El Akkad

Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor

In the Skin of a Lion
Michael Ondaatje

The Palm House
Gwendoline Riley