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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Zero K
Don DeLillo

The Outside Lands
Hannah Kohler

The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton

Complete Ghost Stories
M. R. James
David Stuart Davies

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Ned Halley

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

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

David Copperfield
Charles Dickens

Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens

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