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 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 
 - 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 
 - Outer Dark- Cormac McCarthy 
 - The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher- Ahn Do-hyun 
 - Quartet in Autumn- Barbara Pym 
 - Spirits Abroad- Zen Cho 
 - Sea Change- Gina Chung 
 - Mothers and Sons- Colm Tóibín 
 - Before We Say Goodbye- Toshikazu Kawaguchi 
 - The Sea- John Banville 
 - Becky- Sarah May 
 - Darling Girls- Sally Hepworth 
 - The Kamogawa Food Detectives- Hisashi Kashiwai 
 - The Story of the Night- Colm Tóibín 
 - The Blackwater Lightship- Colm Tóibín 
 - The Heather Blazing- Colm Tóibín 
 - The Master- Colm Tóibín 
 - The South- Colm Tóibín 
 - Silence- Shusaku Endo 
 - Palazzo- Danielle Steel 
 - Cast a Cold Eye- Robbie Morrison