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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Hard Times
Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens

Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tales of the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Forgetting Time
Sharon Guskin

Kim
Rudyard Kipling

Selected Verse
Rudyard Kipling

One Hundred Days of Happiness
Fausto Brizzi

The Beauty of the End
Debbie Howells

A Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway

Doctor Thorne
Anthony Trollope

The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran

Collected Poems
W B Yeats

Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England
Jane Austen

The Giles Wareing Haters' Club
Tim Dowling

Who Do You Think You Are?
Malcolm Bradbury

Love May Fail
Matthew Quick

We Never Asked for Wings
Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The Psalm Killer
Chris Petit

Your Father Sends His Love
Stuart Evers

All Involved
Ryan Gattis

The Case of the Missing Brontë
Robert Barnard

Kung Fu
Ryan Gattis

Out of the Dark
Natasha Cooper

A Place of Safety
Natasha Cooper

Keep Me Alive
Natasha Cooper

Gagged & Bound
Natasha Cooper

A Greater Evil
Natasha Cooper

A Poisoned Mind
Natasha Cooper

Creeping Ivy
Natasha Cooper

Prey to All
Natasha Cooper

Players
Don DeLillo

Ratner's Star
Don DeLillo

The Followers
Rebecca Wait

Gate of Lilacs
Clive James

Hausfrau
Jill Alexander Essbaum

The Making of Zombie Wars
Aleksandar Hemon