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 Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa
Luckiest Girl Alive
Jessica Knoll
What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Emily Noble's Disgrace
Mary Paulson-Ellis
Objects of Desire
Clare Sestanovich
Yours Cheerfully
AJ Pearce
Last Summer in the City
Gianfranco Calligarich
Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid
Lucy
Jamaica Kincaid
At the Bottom of the River
Jamaica Kincaid
The Autobiography of My Mother
Jamaica Kincaid
Circus of Wonders
Elizabeth Macneal
Magma
Thora Hjörleifsdóttir
A Shock
Keith Ridgway
Nevada
Imogen Binnie
Catch the Rabbit
Lana Bastašic
Saint X
Alexis Schaitkin
The Melting
Lize Spit
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
Brood
Jackie Polzin
The Painter's Friend
Howard Cunnell
The Lamplighters
Emma Stonex
The Ophelia Girls
Jane Healey
The Art of Losing
Alice Zeniter
The Field
Robert Seethaler
The Blue Bedspread
Raj Kamal Jha
Kololo Hill
Neema Shah
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