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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Mothers and Sons
Colm Tóibín
Before We Say Goodbye
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Wonder
Emma Donoghue
The Sea
John Banville
Becky
Sarah May
Whale Fall
Elizabeth O'Connor
The Amendments
Niamh Mulvey
Sparrow
James Hynes
James
Percival Everett
The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Hisashi Kashiwai
Suttree
Cormac McCarthy
The Story of the Night
Colm Tóibín
The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Tóibín
The Heather Blazing
Colm Tóibín
The Master
Colm Tóibín
The South
Colm Tóibín
Quarantine
Jim Crace
Silence
Shusaku Endo
Not Alone
Sarah K Jackson
An Honourable Exit
Eric Vuillard
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Percival Everett
Damned If I Do
Percival Everett
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
Percival Everett
Telephone
Percival Everett
Assumption
Percival Everett
So Much Blue
Percival Everett
Now I Am Here
Chidi Ebere
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
Western Lane
Chetna Maroo
Where There Was Fire
John Manuel Arias
How I Won A Nobel Prize
Julius Taranto
The World and All That It Holds
Aleksandar Hemon
Child of God
Cormac McCarthy
What You Need From The Night
Laurent Petitmangin
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge
Lizzie Pook
Wellness
Nathan Hill
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
Audrey Burges
The People in the Trees
Hanya Yanagihara
The Sparsholt Affair
Alan Hollinghurst
The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst