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 Upstairs Room
Kate Murray-Browne
The Sparsholt Affair
Alan Hollinghurst
To Die in Spring
Ralf Rothmann
The End We Start From
Megan Hunter
Heart of Darkness & other stories
Joseph Conrad
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Patrick Melrose Volume 1
Edward St Aubyn
Patrick Melrose Volume 2
Edward St Aubyn
Often I Am Happy
Jens Christian Grøndahl
Marlena
Julie Buntin
The Reminders
Val Emmich
American War
Omar El Akkad
Swimmer Among the Stars
Kanishk Tharoor
The Hearts of Men
Nickolas Butler
The Children of Jocasta
Natalie Haynes
Let Go My Hand
Edward Docx
Ithaca
Alan McMonagle
The Space Between the Stars
Anne Corlett
Perfect Little World
Kevin Wilson
Time of Hope
C. P. Snow
George Passant
C. P. Snow
The Masters
C. P. Snow
The Last Days of New Paris
China Miéville
All That's Left to Tell
Daniel Lowe
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
Scenes of London Life
Charles Dickens
George Cruikshank
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Veniss Underground
Jeff VanderMeer
The Reason You're Alive
Matthew Quick
The Other Mrs Walker
Mary Paulson-Ellis
The Idea of Perfection
Kate Grenville
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
The Go-Between
L. P. Hartley
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
The Good Lieutenant
Whitney Terrell
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah