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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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
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
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Exposure
Aga Lesiewicz
Innocents and Others
Dana Spiotta
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
Run
Mandasue Heller
Christodora
Tim Murphy
Selection Day
Aravind Adiga
The Wind Cannot Read
Richard Mason
The Shadow and the Peak
Richard Mason
You Will Know Me
Megan Abbott
The Last Photograph
Emma Chapman
The Olive Tree
Lucinda Riley
The Ministry of Fear
Graham Greene