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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Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
The Young Team
Graeme Armstrong
Pygmalion & Other Plays
George Bernard Shaw
The Field
Robert Seethaler
Saint X
Alexis Schaitkin
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth
Daniel Mason
The Lamplighters
Emma Stonex
Cowboy Graves
Roberto Bolaño
Jack & Bet
Sarah Butler
Mountain Road, Late at Night
Alan Rossi
Nightshift
Kiare Ladner
Kololo Hill
Neema Shah
The Art of Losing
Alice Zeniter
The Hiding Game
Naomi Wood
Writers & Lovers
Lily King
Amnesty
Aravind Adiga
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
Little Bandaged Days
Kyra Wilder
Luster
Raven Leilani
The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Burmese Days
George Orwell
Correspondents
Tim Murphy
La Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri
The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
Christine Féret-Fleury
Candide, or The Optimist
Voltaire
Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Confession
Jessie Burton
The Catholic School
Edoardo Albinati
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Akin
Emma Donoghue
Sweet Home
Wendy Erskine
The Ditch
Herman Koch
My House Is Falling Down
Mary Loudon
From The Wreck
Jane Rawson
The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing
Mary Paulson-Ellis
Homeland
Fernando Aramburu
The Age of Light
Whitney Scharer