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 Harpy
Megan Hunter

Greyfriars Bobby
Eleanor Atkinson

Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson

Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart

The Young Team
Graeme Armstrong

Pygmalion & Other Plays
George Bernard Shaw

Wedding Readings and Poems
Becky Brown

Laura Cassidy's Walk of Fame
Alan McMonagle

A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth
Daniel Mason

Cowboy Graves
Roberto Bolaño

Jack & Bet
Sarah Butler

Mountain Road, Late at Night
Alan Rossi

Witness
Mandasue Heller

Amnesty
Aravind Adiga

Little Bandaged Days
Kyra Wilder

Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell

Animal Farm
George Orwell

Burmese Days
George Orwell

Correspondents
Tim Murphy

La Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri

The Other Bennet Sister
Janice Hadlow

Moral Compass
Danielle Steel

Together by Christmas
Karen Swan

A Dog's Perfect Christmas
W. Bruce Cameron

Food for Thought
Annie Gray

The Joy of Walking
Suzy Cripps

The Art of Solitude
Zachary Seager

Why Friendship Matters
Michèle Mendelssohn

Mum & Dad
Joanna Trollope

A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories
Eva Ibbotson

Passing
Nella Larsen

Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

The Trial
Franz Kafka

Candide, or The Optimist
Voltaire

The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Classic Dog Stories
Ned Halley

Classic Cat Stories
Becky Brown

Lampedusa
Steven Price

Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Confession
Jessie Burton