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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Where There Was Fire
John Manuel Arias

Classic Horror Stories
David Stuart Davies

The Accidental Malay
Karina Robles Bahrin

The Centre
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

Classic Stories of the Sea
Harriet Sanders

The Orchard Keeper
Cormac McCarthy

Classic Fantasy Stories
Farah Mendlesohn

The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything
Kara Gnodde

Open Throat
Henry Hoke

Locks
Ashleigh Nugent

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

Outer Dark
Cormac McCarthy

The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher
Ahn Do-hyun

Quartet in Autumn
Barbara Pym

Spirits Abroad
Zen Cho

Sea Change
Gina Chung

Mothers and Sons
Colm Tóibín

Before We Say Goodbye
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Sea
John Banville

Becky
Sarah May

Darling Girls
Sally Hepworth

The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Hisashi Kashiwai

The Story of the Night
Colm Tóibín

The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Tóibín

The Heather Blazing
Colm Tóibín

The Master
Colm Tóibín

The South
Colm Tóibín

Palazzo
Danielle Steel

Cast a Cold Eye
Robbie Morrison

Not Alone
Sarah K Jackson

I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Percival Everett

Damned If I Do
Percival Everett

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
Percival Everett

Telephone
Percival Everett

Assumption
Percival Everett

So Much Blue
Percival Everett