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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Before Your Memory Fades
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
eden
Jim Crace
Haven
Emma Donoghue
The Women Could Fly
Megan Giddings
Hinterland
Arno Geiger
Trust
Hernan Diaz
Disorientation
Elaine Hsieh Chou
The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings
Joanna Nadin
Yours Cheerfully
AJ Pearce
The Bastard Factory
Chris Kraus
The House of Fortune
Jessie Burton
Last Summer in the City
Gianfranco Calligarich
Annie John
Lucy
At the Bottom of the River
The Autobiography of My Mother
Hearts and Bones
Niamh Mulvey
Dirt Town
Hayley Scrivenor
Briefly, A Delicious Life
Nell Stevens
Circus of Wonders
Elizabeth Macneal
Magma
Thora Hjörleifsdóttir
A Shock
Keith Ridgway
Nevada
Imogen Binnie
Catch the Rabbit
Lana Bastašic
Saint X
Alexis Schaitkin
Vladimir
Julia May Jonas
We Had To Remove This Post
Hanna Bervoets
The Melting
Lize Spit
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
All The Lovers In The Night
Mieko Kawakami
Brood
Jackie Polzin
Very Cold People
Sarah Manguso
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
The Painter's Friend
Howard Cunnell
Concerning My Daughter
Kim Hye-jin
Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart
The Colony of Good Hope
Kim Leine
The Lamplighters
Emma Stonex
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
Maddie Mortimer
The Ophelia Girls
Jane Healey