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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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
Judith Flanders
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
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
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
Colm Tóibín
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