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 Clockmaker's Daughter
Kate Morton
Ponti
Sharlene Teo
My German Brother
Chico Buarque
The Piranhas
Roberto Saviano
The Long Forgotten
David Whitehouse
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis
The Master
Colm Toibin
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
The Burning Chambers
Kate Mosse
Fire Sermon
Jamie Quatro
The Spirit of Science Fiction
Roberto Bolaño
The Melody
Jim Crace
The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith
Weedon Grossmith
The Killing of Butterfly Joe
Rhidian Brook
Things We Nearly Knew
Jim Powell
Give Me Your Hand
Megan Abbott
Dear Mrs Bird
AJ Pearce
To the Hermitage
Malcolm Bradbury
If Cats Disappeared From The World
Genki Kawamura
I Love You Too Much
Alicia Drake
The Faithful
Juliet West
Bad Twins
Rebecca Chance
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Margaret Craven
The Dead Girls
Jorge Ibargüengoitia
The People in the Trees
Hanya Yanagihara
The Border Trilogy
Cormac McCarthy
Oreo
Fran Ross
Pages for Her
Sylvia Brownrigg
The Riders
Tim Winton
Breath
Tim Winton
Dirt Music
Tim Winton
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