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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What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell

Legoland
Gerard Woodward

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

The Happy Prince & Other Stories
Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays
Oscar Wilde

Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Édouard Riou

Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Édouard Riou

Stay Dead
Jessie Keane

Trading Futures
Jim Powell

Everyone is Watching
Megan Bradbury

The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil

This Census-Taker
China Miéville

Zero K
Don DeLillo

The Outside Lands
Hannah Kohler

The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton

Complete Ghost Stories
M. R. James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy

The Trap
Melanie Raabe

Long Shot
Jack Coughlin
Donald A. Davis

To Catch A Killer
Nele Neuhaus

Dr Finlay's Casebook
A. J. Cronin

Poldark: The Complete Scripts - Series 2
Debbie Horsfield

Rupture
Simon Lelic

No Place Like Home
Kerry Wilkinson

Searching for a Silver Lining
Miranda Dickinson

Gone Astray
Michelle Davies

The Way We Were
Maeve Haran

Irish Ghost Stories
David Stuart Davies

Dubliners
James Joyce

Moby-Dick
Herman Melville

Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe

Kim
Rudyard Kipling

All This Has Nothing To Do With Me
Monica Sabolo

Diary of a Provincial Lady
E. M. Delafield

The Odyssey
Homer

Les Misérables
Victor Hugo

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens