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 Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Sixteen Horses
Greg Buchanan
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Alligator and Other Stories
Dima Alzayat
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
Kololo Hill
Neema Shah
The Art of Losing
Alice Zeniter
The Hiding Game
Naomi Wood
Writers & Lovers
Lily King
Amnesty
Aravind Adiga
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
Little Bandaged Days
Kyra Wilder
The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Burmese Days
George Orwell
Correspondents
Tim Murphy
La Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri
The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
Christine Féret-Fleury
Candide, or The Optimist
Voltaire
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Lampedusa
Steven Price
Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Confession
Jessie Burton
A House for Mr Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
The Enigma of Arrival
V. S. Naipaul
In a Free State
V. S. Naipaul
The Catholic School
Edoardo Albinati
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff
You Will Never Be Forgotten
Mary South