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 Almost Moon
Alice Sebold
The Other Garden and Collected Stories
Francis Wyndham
Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson
The Missing Person's Guide to Love
Susanna Jones
An Open Swimmer
Tim Winton
When We Were Romans
Matthew Kneale
Swallowing Grandma
Kate Long
Winter Under Water
James Hopkin
A Far Country
Daniel Mason
Scribbling The Cat
Alexandra Fuller
Continent
Jim Crace
Arcadia
Jim Crace
Six
Jim Crace
Signals of Distress
Jim Crace
The Gift of Stones
Jim Crace
The Devil's Larder
Jim Crace
The Delivery Room
Sylvia Brownrigg
The Magic Cottage
James Herbert
Nothing To Be Afraid Of
Will Eaves
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
Carrie Tiffany
Anthem
Tim Binding
The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank
Ellen Feldman
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
Ben Sherwood
Senseless
Paul Golding
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
Helen Fielding
Waxwings
Jonathan Raban
Real Time
Amit Chaudhuri
Slipstream
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Cause Celeb
Helen Fielding
In the Kingdom of Air
Tim Binding
The Tie That Binds
Kent Haruf
The Oversight
Will Eaves
The Dead School
Patrick McCabe
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
Gift of Wings
Richard Bach
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
Malcolm Bradbury
The Abyssinian
Jean-Christophe Rufin
The Picador Book of Latin American Stories
Carlos Fuentes
Julio Ortega
Island Madness
Tim Binding
The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction
Peter Kravitz