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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New Animal
Ella Baxter
Dance Move
Wendy Erskine
Devotion
Hannah Kent
The God of that Summer
Ralf Rothmann
Five Tuesdays in Winter
Lily King
To Paradise
Hanya Yanagihara
Hare House
Sally Hinchcliffe
A Time Outside This Time
Amitava Kumar
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
Maurice Leblanc
The Fell
Sarah Moss
The Silence
Don DeLillo
Savage Kiss
Roberto Saviano
Mother for Dinner
Shalom Auslander
The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa
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Rian Hughes
Last Summer in the City
Gianfranco Calligarich
What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad
Emily Noble's Disgrace
Mary Paulson-Ellis
You Will Never Be Forgotten
Mary South
The Ophelia Girls
Jane Healey
Objects of Desire
Clare Sestanovich
Dance Prone
David Coventry
The Painter's Friend
Howard Cunnell
Magma
Thora Hjörleifsdóttir
Yours Cheerfully
AJ Pearce
The Blind Light
Stuart Evers
Blue in Chicago
Bette Howland
Summerwater
Sarah Moss
The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Prelude & Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield
A Shock
Keith Ridgway
The Light Years
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Marking Time
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Confusion
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Casting Off
Elizabeth Jane Howard
All Change
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
Catch the Rabbit
Lana Bastašic
The Harpy
Megan Hunter