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 Secret Keeper
Kate Morton

Sea of Tranquility
Emily St John Mandel

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
Maddie Mortimer

Dirt Town
Hayley Scrivenor

The Party House
Lin Anderson

Our Wives Under The Sea
Julia Armfield

Treasures of Cornwall: A Literary Anthology
Luke Thompson

Yorkshire: A Literary Landscape
David Stuart Davies

The Exhibitionist
Charlotte Mendelson

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Danielle Evans

New Animal
Ella Baxter

The Peacock Spring
Rumer Godden

Dance Move
Wendy Erskine

Vladimir
Julia May Jonas

Do I Know You?
Emily Wibberley
Austin Siegemund-Broka

Five Tuesdays in Winter
Lily King

Running Scared
Mandasue Heller

Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
Jeffrey Archer

The Eleventh Commandment
Jeffrey Archer

The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis

Owner of a Lonely Heart
Eva Carter

A Time Outside This Time
Amitava Kumar

The Names
Don DeLillo

Underworld
Don DeLillo

Mao II
Don DeLillo

End Zone
Don DeLillo

Great Jones Street
Don DeLillo

The Fell
Sarah Moss

Goblin Market & Other Poems
Christina Rossetti
Laurence Housman

On Your Marks
Martin Polley

Our Place in Nature
Zachary Seager

No Place Like Home
Michèle Mendelssohn

The Greengage Summer
Rumer Godden

Kane and Abel
Jeffrey Archer

An Unsuitable Attachment
Barbara Pym

The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa

The Butler
Danielle Steel

Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Marissa Constantinou

Black Voices on Britain
Hakim Adi

We Are the Brennans
Tracey Lange