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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Akin
Emma Donoghue
Lark Rise to Candleford
Flora Thompson
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
A. Frederics
David Stuart Davies
Anne of Avonlea
L. M. Montgomery
Sweet Home
Wendy Erskine
A Perfect Execution
Tim Binding
From The Wreck
Jane Rawson
Homeland
Fernando Aramburu
The Age of Light
Whitney Scharer
The Iliad
Homer
Natalie Haynes
The Aeneid
Virgil
Salt Slow
Julia Armfield
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Selected Poems
William Wordsworth
In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
H. K. Browne
David Stuart Davies
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Marcus Stone
The Warden
Anthony Trollope
F. C. Tilney
The Braid
Laetitia Colombani
The Distance Home
Paula Saunders
The Telephone Box Library
Rachael Lucas
I Want To Show You More
Jamie Quatro
Diary of a Somebody
Brian Bilston
Maggsie McNaughton's Second Chance
Frances Maynard
The Christmas Party
Karen Swan
The Order of the Day
Eric Vuillard
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Brutal
Mandasue Heller
The Citadel
A. J. Cronin
Adam Kay
Evening in Paradise
Lucia Berlin
My Ántonia
Willa Cather
W.T. Benda
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas De Quincey
In the Ravine & Other Stories
Anton Chekhov
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake
The Edge
Jessie Keane
How to Love a Jamaican
Alexia Arthurs
Salvation
Peter F. Hamilton
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
Helen Allingham