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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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
Patrick Melrose Volume 1
Edward St Aubyn
Patrick Melrose Volume 2
Edward St Aubyn
Often I Am Happy
Jens Christian Grøndahl
Marlena
Julie Buntin
The Reminders
Val Emmich
American War
Omar El Akkad
Swimmer Among the Stars
Kanishk Tharoor
The Hearts of Men
Nickolas Butler
Let Go My Hand
Edward Docx
Ithaca
Alan McMonagle
The Space Between the Stars
Anne Corlett
Perfect Little World
Kevin Wilson
Time of Hope
C. P. Snow
George Passant
C. P. Snow
The Masters
C. P. Snow
The Last Days of New Paris
China Miéville
All That's Left to Tell
Daniel Lowe
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
Scenes of London Life
Charles Dickens
George Cruikshank
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Veniss Underground
Jeff VanderMeer
Girl in Snow
Danya Kukafka