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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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

The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah

Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy

The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy

Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy

The Road
Cormac McCarthy

Complications
Danielle Steel

Objects of Desire
Clare Sestanovich

Last Summer in the City
Gianfranco Calligarich

Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid

The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim

Magma
Thora Hjörleifsdóttir

A Shock
Keith Ridgway

Nevada
Imogen Binnie

The Streets
Jacqui Rose

Saint X
Alexis Schaitkin

The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

The Melting
Lize Spit

Heaven
Mieko Kawakami

Brood
Jackie Polzin

The Painter's Friend
Howard Cunnell

The Ophelia Girls
Jane Healey