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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Doctor Criminale
Malcolm Bradbury
The Manual for Good Wives
Lola Jaye
Jane Austen's Fashion Bible
Ros Ballaster
Life, and Death, and Giants
Ron Rindo
Before We Forget Kindness
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Secrets in the Snow & Other Christmas Crime Stories
Matthew Booth
A Sport and a Pastime
James Salter
At Last
Edward St Aubyn
A Long Winter
Colm Tóibín
Instructions for Heartbreak
Sarah Handyside
Good and Evil and Other Stories
Samanta Schweblin
Watershed
Percival Everett
Rules of the Heart
Janice Hadlow
Annihilation
Michel Houellebecq
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Parties and Passions
Elena Richards
The Mystic Masseur
V.S. Naipaul
Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst
The Lantern of Lost Memories
Sanaka Hiiragi
The Good Wife
Jacqui Rose
Spud: The Reunion
John van de Ruit
Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis
Rosarita
Anita Desai
Tigers in Red Weather
Liza Klaussmann
Mother's Milk
Edward St Aubyn
Behind Frenemy Lines
Zen Cho
Small Rain
Garth Greenwell
The Ramayana
Valmiki
The Mahabharata
Vyasa
Among Friends
Hal Ebbott
Anyone's Ghost
August Thompson
A Beautiful Family
Jennifer Trevelyan
Bonding
Mariel Franklin
Thirst Trap
Gráinne O'Hare
Some Hope
Edward St Aubyn
Long Island
Colm Tóibín
Chéri
Colette
Claudine at School
Colette