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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Time of Hope
C. P. Snow
George Passant
C. P. Snow
The Masters
C. P. Snow
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor
Shattered Minds
Laura Lam
The Last Days of New Paris
China Miéville
All That's Left to Tell
Daniel Lowe
A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
Scenes of London Life
Charles Dickens
George Cruikshank
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Privateer
Tim Severin
Four to Score
Janet Evanovich
Never Screw Up
Jens Lapidus
A New Map of Love
Abi Oliver
City of Saints and Madmen
Jeff VanderMeer
Veniss Underground
Jeff VanderMeer
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
The Reason You're Alive
Matthew Quick
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
Mark Frost
The Windfell Family Secrets
Diane Allen
The Idea of Perfection
Kate Grenville
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence
Best Short Stories
W Somerset Maugham
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
The Good Lieutenant
Whitney Terrell
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Wrong Place
Michelle Davies
The Orchid Trilogy
Jocelyn Brooke
The Dog at Clambercrown
Jocelyn Brooke
The Scapegoat
Jocelyn Brooke
The Image of a Drawn Sword
Jocelyn Brooke
Conventional Weapons
Jocelyn Brooke
The Nix
Nathan Hill
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith