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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Signs of Life
Anna Raverat
T is for Trespass
Sue Grafton
U is for Undertow
Sue Grafton
Wish I May
Justine Picardie
The Silver Linings Playbook (film tie-in)
Matthew Quick
Hope: A Tragedy
Shalom Auslander
Noon
Aatish Taseer
Eating People is Wrong
Malcolm Bradbury
Nameless
Jessie Keane
Savages
Shirley Conran
Next to Love
Ellen Feldman
Murder, Mr Mosley
John Greenwood
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Don DeLillo
The Two Week Wait
Sarah Rayner
Alice Bliss
Laura Harrington
On Booze
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Tenderloin
John Butler
Another Year
R. C. Sherriff
The Wells of St Mary's
R. C. Sherriff
Ten Stories about Smoking
Stuart Evers
Miss Purdy's Class
Annie Murray
The Devil's Garden
Edward Docx
The Good Listener
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
The Champion
Tim Binding
Embassytown
China Miéville
The Family Fang
Kevin Wilson
Black Dirt
Nell Leyshon
Filming
Tabish Khair
God's Fool
Mark Slouka
Happy Baby
Stephen Elliott
Lost Lake
Mark Slouka
The Fighter
Craig Davidson
What We Are Made Of
Thomas Hettche
Simple Stories
Ingo Schulze
The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Bruno Schulz
Another Kind of Life
Catherine Dunne
Mercy Alexander
George Tiffin
The Walled Garden
Catherine Dunne
Breaking Silence
Linda Castillo