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 Blind Light
Stuart Evers
Blue in Chicago
Bette Howland
Summerwater
Sarah Moss
The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Prelude & Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield
The Light Years
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Marking Time
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Confusion
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Casting Off
Elizabeth Jane Howard
All Change
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
Circus of Wonders
Elizabeth Macneal
The Harpy
Megan Hunter
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue
The Children of Jocasta
Natalie Haynes
Alligator and Other Stories
Dima Alzayat
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
The Young Team
Graeme Armstrong
Pygmalion & Other Plays
George Bernard Shaw
Laura Cassidy's Walk of Fame
Alan McMonagle
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth
Daniel Mason
The Piano Tuner
Daniel Mason
Cowboy Graves
Roberto Bolaño
Jack & Bet
Sarah Butler
Mountain Road, Late at Night
Alan Rossi
The Hiding Game
Naomi Wood
Writers & Lovers
Lily King
Amnesty
Aravind Adiga
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
Little Bandaged Days
Kyra Wilder
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Burmese Days
George Orwell
Correspondents
Tim Murphy
La Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri
The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
Christine Féret-Fleury
Candide, or The Optimist
Voltaire
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Lampedusa
Steven Price