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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Not Alone
Sarah K Jackson

I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Percival Everett

Damned If I Do
Percival Everett

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Percival Everett

Telephone
Percival Everett

Assumption
Percival Everett

So Much Blue
Percival Everett

Milk
Alice Kinsella

Now I Am Here
Chidi Ebere

Paris: A Literary Anthology
Zachary Seager

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion
Rosemary Gray

Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang

Cautionary Tales
Hilaire Belloc

Western Lane
Chetna Maroo

Child of God
Cormac McCarthy

What You Need From The Night
Laurent Petitmangin

The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
Audrey Burges

Classic Love Stories
Becky Brown

The People in the Trees
Hanya Yanagihara

The Sweet Dove Died
Barbara Pym

Christmas By Candlelight
Karen Swan

Alone With You in the Ether
Olivie Blake

The Sparsholt Affair
Alan Hollinghurst

My Gothic Heart
Charlie Castelletti

The Little Old Lady Strikes Back
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

Dr. No
Percival Everett

The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy

Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy

Classic Christmas Crime Stories
David Stuart Davies

A Book Lover's Guide to the Zodiac
Charlie Castelletti

Enchanted Tales & Happily Ever Afters
Macmillan Collector's Library

Before Your Memory Fades
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Lost For Words
Edward St Aubyn

The Women
Jacqui Rose

Almost English
Charlotte Mendelson

When We Were Bad
Charlotte Mendelson

Things to Come and Go
Bette Howland

Disorientation
Elaine Hsieh Chou

The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey

The Franchise Affair
Josephine Tey