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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Very Cold People
Sarah Manguso
The Painter's Friend
Howard Cunnell
Concerning My Daughter
Kim Hye-jin
Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart
The Colony of Good Hope
Kim Leine
The Lamplighters
Emma Stonex
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
Maddie Mortimer
The Ophelia Girls
Jane Healey
The Exhibitionist
Charlotte Mendelson
The Art of Losing
Alice Zeniter
The Field
Robert Seethaler
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter
Lizzie Pook
The Blue Bedspread
Raj Kamal Jha
Nightshift
Kiare Ladner
Kololo Hill
Neema Shah
New Animal
Ella Baxter
Room
Emma Donoghue
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
White Noise
Don DeLillo
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Middle Passage
Charles Johnson
A House for Mr Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
Dance Move
Wendy Erskine
Devotion
Hannah Kent
Sixteen Horses
Greg Buchanan
Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
The God of that Summer
Ralf Rothmann
The Burning Chambers
Kate Mosse
Five Tuesdays in Winter
Lily King
The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
To Paradise
Hanya Yanagihara
Luster
Raven Leilani
Hare House
Sally Hinchcliffe
A Time Outside This Time
Amitava Kumar
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
Maurice Leblanc
The Fell
Sarah Moss