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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Devotion
Hannah Kent
Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
Sixteen Horses
Greg Buchanan
The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
The God of that Summer
Ralf Rothmann
The Burning Chambers
Kate Mosse
Five Tuesdays in Winter
Lily King
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
The Silence
Don DeLillo
The Children of Jocasta
Natalie Haynes
Savage Kiss
Roberto Saviano
Mother for Dinner
Shalom Auslander
The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa
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Rian Hughes
Emily Noble's Disgrace
Mary Paulson-Ellis
Last Summer in the City
Gianfranco Calligarich
What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad
You Will Never Be Forgotten
Mary South
The Ophelia Girls
Jane Healey
Dance Prone
David Coventry
The Blind Light
Stuart Evers
Blue in Chicago
Bette Howland
Summerwater
Sarah Moss
The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Prelude & Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield
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
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
Circus of Wonders
Elizabeth Macneal
The Harpy
Megan Hunter
The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue