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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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence
Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories
Eva Ibbotson
The Hiding Place
Trezza Azzopardi
The Kills
Richard House
Waxwings
Jonathan Raban
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Other Bennet Sister
Janice Hadlow
A Serving of Hope
Hisashi Kashiwai
The Hill in the Dark Grove
Liam Higginson
Folk Tales for Winter Nights
Jean Menzies
The Nutcracker
Alexandre Dumas
The Winter Guest
Sarah Moss
The Irish Goodbye
Heather Aimee O'Neill
Ply
Hernan Diaz
Cosy Classics Colouring
Daniela Massironi
The Rouse
China Miéville
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Classic Stories from Japan
Macmillan Collector's Library
Elena Richards
Exit Party
Emily St John Mandel
Guerrillas
V.S. Naipaul
Miguel Street
V.S. Naipaul
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
Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
Jeffrey Archer
Girl Dinner
Olivie Blake
Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
Classic Weird Stories
Emily Alder