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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Marking Time
Elizabeth Jane Howard

Confusion
Elizabeth Jane Howard

Casting Off
Elizabeth Jane Howard

All Change
Elizabeth Jane Howard

A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
Ann Cleeves

Salutation Road
Salma Ibrahim

Before We Say Goodbye
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Memory Keeper
Abigail Johnson

Life, and Death, and Giants
Ron Rindo

Terms of Endearment
Larry McMurtry

Meet the Newmans
Jennifer Niven

A Beautiful Family
Jennifer Trevelyan

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The Reader on the 6.27
Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

Eating People is Wrong
Malcolm Bradbury

To the Hermitage
Malcolm Bradbury

Among Friends
Hal Ebbott

Little Wild
Laura Evans

Summer Island
Kristin Hannah

The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan

New Skin
Sarah Wang

Rules of the Heart
Janice Hadlow

Good and Evil and Other Stories
Samanta Schweblin

Crudo
Olivia Laing

Ripeness
Sarah Moss

The Repentants
Kate Foster

Before I Knew I Loved You
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

John of John
Douglas Stuart

The Secret Keeper
Kate Morton

The Sunshine Man
Emma Stonex

Thirst Trap
Gráinne O'Hare

New York: A Literary Anthology
J. Michelle Coghlan

Classic Summer Stories
Becky Brown

Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin

Fair Play
Louise Hegarty

Harvest
Jim Crace

This Census-Taker
China Miéville

American War
Omar El Akkad

Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor

In the Skin of a Lion
Michael Ondaatje