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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The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
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Roberto Bolaño
The Lazarus Project
Aleksandar Hemon
Nowhere Man
Aleksandar Hemon
Guernica
Dave Boling
The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold
The Other Garden and Collected Stories
Francis Wyndham
The Missing Person's Guide to Love
Susanna Jones
An Open Swimmer
Tim Winton
Swallowing Grandma
Kate Long
The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Toibin
The Story of the Night
Colm Toibin
Winter Under Water
James Hopkin
A Far Country
Daniel Mason
Continent
Jim Crace
Six
Jim Crace
Signals of Distress
Jim Crace
The Gift of Stones
Jim Crace
The Devil's Larder
Jim Crace
Arcadia
Jim Crace
Mothers and Sons
Colm Toibin
The Delivery Room
Sylvia Brownrigg
The Turning
Tim Winton
Nothing To Be Afraid Of
Will Eaves
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
Carrie Tiffany
The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank
Ellen Feldman
Senseless
Paul Golding
Waxwings
Jonathan Raban
Cause Celeb
Helen Fielding
The Tie That Binds
Kent Haruf
The Oversight
Will Eaves
The Dead School
Patrick McCabe
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
Malcolm Bradbury