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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The Dead Girls
Jorge Ibargüengoitia

The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr
Frances Maynard

The Innocent
David Baldacci

The Hit
David Baldacci

The Winner
David Baldacci

The Flower Beneath the Foot
Ronald Firbank

Oreo
Fran Ross

A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
Ann Cleeves

Sing Them Home
Pam Weaver

The Upstairs Room
Kate Murray-Browne

Safe
Ryan Gattis

Double Kiss
Ronnie O'Sullivan

The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness
Graham Caveney

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins

Heart of Darkness & other stories
Joseph Conrad

Middlemarch
George Eliot

Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

Often I Am Happy
Jens Christian Grøndahl

Marlena
Julie Buntin

The Reminders
Val Emmich

American War
Omar El Akkad

Swimmer Among the Stars
Kanishk Tharoor

The Hearts of Men
Nickolas Butler

Let Go My Hand
Edward Docx

Ithaca
Alan McMonagle

Perfect Little World
Kevin Wilson

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