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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Mother's Milk
Edward St Aubyn
The Sculptress
Minette Walters
Mr Fox
Helen Oyeyemi
The Devil's Garden
Edward Docx
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
The Champion
Tim Binding
Embassytown
China Miéville
The Family Fang
Kevin Wilson
Black Dirt
Nell Leyshon
Filming
Tabish Khair
The Fighter
Craig Davidson
The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Bruno Schulz
Another Kind of Life
Catherine Dunne
The Walled Garden
Catherine Dunne
The Mimic Men
V. S. Naipaul
The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
V. S. Naipaul
Ours are the Streets
Sunjeev Sahota
In a Free State
V. S. Naipaul
Guerrillas
V. S. Naipaul
Miguel Street
V. S. Naipaul
The Mystic Masseur
V. S. Naipaul
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Acts of Violence
Ryan David Jahn
The Silver Swan
Benjamin Black
Nourishment
Gerard Woodward
Christine Falls
Benjamin Black
All That Follows
Jim Crace
Ilustrado
Miguel Syjuco
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
Robin Black
The City & The City
China Miéville
Iron Council
China Miéville
King Rat
China Miéville
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
Un Lun Dun
China Miéville
The Scar
China Miéville
Kraken
China Miéville
Imperial Bedrooms
Bret Easton Ellis
The Song House
Trezza Azzopardi
The Enigma of Arrival
V. S. Naipaul
A Way in the World
V. S. Naipaul