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 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 Boy from the Sea
Garrett Carr
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
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
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
Jaws
Peter Benchley
Wellness
Nathan Hill