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 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 Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Sixteen Horses
Greg Buchanan
The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue
Alligator and Other Stories
Dima Alzayat
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
The Young Team
Graeme Armstrong
Pygmalion & Other Plays
George Bernard Shaw
Laura Cassidy's Walk of Fame
Alan McMonagle
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth
Daniel Mason
The Piano Tuner
Daniel Mason
The Lamplighters
Emma Stonex
Cowboy Graves
Roberto Bolaño
Jack & Bet
Sarah Butler
Mountain Road, Late at Night
Alan Rossi