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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Instructions for Heartbreak
Sarah Handyside
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
Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding
Half a Life
V.S. Naipaul
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul
Father of the Rain
Lily King
The English Teacher
Lily King
The Pleasing Hour
Lily King
Januaries
Olivie Blake
All I Want for Christmas
Karen Swan
A Child's Christmas in Wales & Other Stories and Poems
Dylan Thomas
Dragons, Wyverns and Serpents: Myths and Legends
Jean Menzies
Witches, Wizards and Sorcerers: Myths and Legends
Jean Menzies
In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
An Area of Darkness
V.S. Naipaul
Before We Forget Kindness
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Jaws
Peter Benchley
Wellness
Nathan Hill
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Shadow in The Corner & Other Classic Ghost Stories
Marcus Clapham
Trumpet
Jackie Kay
Plainsong
Kent Haruf
Where There Was Fire
John Manuel Arias
Classic Horror Stories
David Stuart Davies
The Accidental Malay
Karina Robles Bahrin
The Centre
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Classic Stories of the Sea
Harriet Sanders
The Orchard Keeper
Cormac McCarthy
Classic Fantasy Stories
Farah Mendlesohn
The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything
Kara Gnodde
Open Throat
Henry Hoke
Locks
Ashleigh Nugent