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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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

That Childhood Country
Deirdre Purcell

Hell's Kitchen
Chris Niles

Something Like Love
Catherine Dunne

Richard
Ben Myers

The Mimic Men
V.S. Naipaul

The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
V.S. Naipaul

Guerrillas
V.S. Naipaul

Miguel Street
V.S. Naipaul

New Selected Poems
Carol Ann Duffy

Well-Remembered Days
Arthur Matthews

Acts of Violence
Ryan David Jahn

Nourishment
Gerard Woodward

All That Follows
Jim Crace

Ilustrado
Miguel Syjuco

If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
Robin Black

Perdido Street Station
China Miéville

Kraken
China Miéville

Imperial Bedrooms
Bret Easton Ellis

The Song House
Trezza Azzopardi

A Way in the World
V.S. Naipaul

The Informers
Bret Easton Ellis

Glamorama
Bret Easton Ellis

Why Don't You Stop Talking
Jackie Kay

Point Omega
Don DeLillo

Running Dog
Don DeLillo

Falling Man
Don DeLillo

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo

Wish I Was Here
Jackie Kay

The Sunset Limited
Cormac McCarthy

Besotted
Joe Treasure

Nazi Literature in the Americas
Roberto Bolaño

Waiting for Columbus
Thomas Trofimuk