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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Ripeness
Sarah Moss
Liars
Sarah Manguso
Mermaids, Sirens and Selkies
Jean Menzies
Fairies, Elves and Sprites
Jean Menzies
Classic Railway Stories
Harriet Sanders
The Sunshine Man
Emma Stonex
Wife
Charlotte Mendelson
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
Catherine Mack
The Cat Who Saved the Library
Sosuke Natsukawa
The Secret Collector
Abigail Johnson
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
Hisashi Kashiwai
Fair Play
Louise Hegarty
All That Is
James Salter
Bad News
Edward St Aubyn
Suder
Percival Everett
The Amendments
Niamh Mulvey
My Beloved Life
Amitava Kumar
Sleeping Children
Anthony Passeron
A House for Mr Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
The Friend Zone Experiment
Zen Cho
The Year of the Runaways
Sunjeev Sahota
Ours are the Streets
Sunjeev Sahota
The Butcher Boy
Patrick McCabe
Book Boyfriend
Emily Wibberley
Austin Siegemund-Broka
James
Percival Everett
The Women
Kristin Hannah
After a Dance
Bridget O'Connor
Lost Horizon
James Hilton
Salutation Road
Salma Ibrahim
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
The City & The City
China Miéville
Magic Seeds
V.S. Naipaul
Never Mind
Edward St Aubyn
Ask Me Again
Clare Sestanovich
The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe
Claire Parkin
How I Won A Nobel Prize
Julius Taranto
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Hugh Thomson
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Hugh Thomson
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Hugh Thomson
Half a Life
V.S. Naipaul