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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Jamaica Kincaid
At the Bottom of the River
Jamaica Kincaid
The Autobiography of My Mother
Jamaica Kincaid
Circus of Wonders
Elizabeth Macneal
Magma
Thora Hjörleifsdóttir
A Shock
Keith Ridgway
Nevada
Imogen Binnie
Catch the Rabbit
Lana Bastašic
Saint X
Alexis Schaitkin
The Melting
Lize Spit
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
Brood
Jackie Polzin
The Painter's Friend
Howard Cunnell
The Lamplighters
Emma Stonex
The Ophelia Girls
Jane Healey
The Art of Losing
Alice Zeniter
The Field
Robert Seethaler
The Blue Bedspread
Raj Kamal Jha
Kololo Hill
Neema Shah
Room
Emma Donoghue
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
White Noise
Don DeLillo
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Middle Passage
Charles Johnson
A House for Mr Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
Sixteen Horses
Greg Buchanan
Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
The Burning Chambers
Kate Mosse
Luster
Raven Leilani
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
Maurice Leblanc
The Silence
Don DeLillo
The Children of Jocasta
Natalie Haynes
Savage Kiss
Roberto Saviano
Mother for Dinner
Shalom Auslander
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