Picador Collection
King Leopold's Ghost
A riveting and highly readable account of the Congo massacre, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes.
Gomorrah
The explosive international bestseller uncovering one of Naples’ most notorious organized criminal gangs.
Confessions of a Sociopath
A compelling, extraordinary memoir by a diagnosed sociopath.
Breath
An enthralling story of the wildness of youth, set in the world of surfing.
Four Letters Of Love
A life-affirming paean to human folly, to fate, and to the miracle of love.
City & The City
A brilliantly original masterpiece of speculative fiction, fusing weird fiction with the police procedural genre, from one of the world's most decorated SF writers.
Magic Seeds
Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul's sequel to Half a Life – a spare, searing novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us – republished as part of the Picador Collection.
Never Mind
The first of The Patrick Melrose Novels, Edward St Aubyn's critically acclaimed series.
A House for Mr Biswas
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's best-loved novel, a tragicomic tour de force.
Year of the Runaways
The heart-stopping political novel about the desperate life of illegal immigrants, from one of Granta's Best of British Novelists.
Ours are the Streets
Reublished into the Picador Collection, Ours are the Streets is the moving story of a British Muslim and his descent into Islamist radicalization.
Butcher Boy
A shockingly funny story of lunacy and murder in small-town Ireland, republished as part of the Picador Collection.
Snow Geese
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Hawthornden Prize, The Snow Geese is a beautiful meditation on the meaning of home, republished as part of the Picador Collection.
Bad Blood
Colm Tóibín's reportage of religious tensions along the Irish border from the summer of 1987.
Homage to Barcelona
Written with deep knowledge and affection, Homage to Barcelona is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of a great Mediterranean city.
Love in a Dark Time
In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Colm Tóibín investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Sign of the Cross
Part travelogue, part autobiography, part historical document, this is Colm Tóibín at his finest and most insightful.
Suder
The debut novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of James, republished in the Picador Collection.
Walk Me to the Distance
A haunting and tragicomic modern Western from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of James.
Among the Believers
An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism, republished in the Picador Collection.
With Nails
In his own inimitable style, Richard E. Grant documents what it is to become a film star.
All That Is
The final novel from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter. A sweeping, seductive love story set in the years after the Second World War.
Bad News
In the second novel in the series, Patrick Melrose battles with his drug addiction over a hallucinatory weekend in New York.
Woman Warrior
A seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity.
India: A Wounded Civilization
A penetrating survey of the torment suffered across India in the late twentieth century, from one of the era's great literary heavyweights.
Some Hope
The third darkly humorous novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series.
Mr Fox
Helen Oyeyemi draws on myth, fairy tale and fable for this extraordinary novel exploring the female muse.
Lonesome Dove
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Western novel renowned for its vivid portrayal of a cattle-drive adventure on the late nineteenth-century American frontier, adapted into a critically acclaimed miniseries.
Comanche Moon
The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, set in the American West, as two ranchers ride into wild country on the tail of a missing man.
Dead Man's Walk
The first book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, set in frontier America during the early nineteenth-century, as two young men set out for the danger and promise of New Mexico.
Liars' Club
The international and New York Times bestselling memoir from a prize-winning poet and critic.
Tigers in Red Weather
The Sunday Times top ten bestseller with the simmering tension of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.
Mother's Milk
The fourth of The Patrick Melrose Novels, Edward St Aubyn's critically acclaimed series.
Spartans
The definitive account of the extraordinary people of Sparta, from the world's leading expert.
Mystic Masseur
V. S. Naipaul's first novel - humorous, endlessly inventive and brilliantly imagined.
Sport and a Pastime
The seductive classic that established Salter’s reputation as one of the finest prose writers of our time.
Dirt Music
Shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize, Dirt Music is a captivating novel about the possibility and power of love.
At Last
The final instalment of The Patrick Melrose Novels, Edward St Aubyn's critically acclaimed series.
Once in a House on Fire
A lauded memoir of a life of terrible circumstances triumphantly overcome.
Anthropologist on Mars
From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
Everything in Its Place
A remarkable celebration of Oliver Sacks's varied interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose.
Musicophilia
From the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
Across the Nightingale Floor
The internationally bestselling fantasy epic, a tale of treachery, honour, loyalty, beauty and passion . . .
History Man
Malcolm Bradbury's hilarious satire of academic life in the 1970s, republished as part of the Picador Collection.
Masque of Africa
An astonishingly prescient, beautifully written and deeply humane work of non-fiction from one of the greatest travel writers oft the twentieth century
Riders
Shortlisted for the 1995 Booker Prize, this is the story of a man and his little girl on the hunt for the wife and mother they thought they knew.
Book of Evidence
The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize.
Rates of Exchange
A wickedly funny satire from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The History Man and Doctor Criminale.
Doctor Criminale
A witty and intellectual lambast of the academic world, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The History Man.
Miss Jane
From the acclaimed author of Last Days of the Dog-Men and The Heaven of Mercury, the tale of a forgotten woman’s life of quiet nobility and dignity lived against the background of the twentieth century.
Enigma of Arrival
A moving and beautiful novel told with great dignity, compassion and candour.
Inside Hitler's Bunker
A compelling account of the dramatic last days of Hitler and the Third Reich by the great German historian, Joachim Fest.
Solace
The astonishing debut from a brilliant and original voice in Irish fiction.
The Long Take
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this powerful and extraordinary novel follows a D-Day veteran as he goes in search of freedom and repair in post-war America.
Mrs. Hemingway
Deliciously evocative and richly imagined, Mrs. Hemingway is the life of one legendary writer told through four extraordinary women.
Boy's Own Story
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. Lyrical and powerfully evocative, this is an American literary treasure.
Untouchable
Inspired by the true story of Anthony Blunt and the Cambridge Five spy ring, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea
Doctor Copernicus
Volume one of John Banville's Revolutions Trilogy, republished as part of the Picador Collection.
Kepler
Volume two of John Banville's Revolutions Trilogy, republished as part of the Picador Collection.
Ghosts
John Banville's Ghosts is an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace, now part of the Picador Collection.
Eclipse
A captivating, melancholy ghost story that will captivate every discerning reader, republished as part of the Picador Collection.
Shroud
A chillingly beautiful novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea, republished in the Picador Collection.
Black and British
From Roman times to the present day, this is the story of Black British history.
Debt To Pleasure
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996.
Tree of Smoke
A riveting, indelible epic about the dark side of the American Dream.
Opium War
A comprehensive and compelling account of the causes and consequences of the Opium War.
Scottsboro
An extraordinary, absorbing novel about an injustice that changed the world, shortlisted for the Orange Prize
American War
An audacious and powerful debut novel about a post-apocalyptic America, for fans of Station Eleven.
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
Transposing Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.
In the Skin of a Lion
From the Booker Prize-winning author comes the sparkling and lyrical predecessor to the bestselling The English Patient.
Harvest
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the inspiration behind the major motion picture, Harvest draws once more on Jim Crace's genius with landscape and myth, to create a lost and bewitching English world.
King of the World
The amazing story of the great heavyweight champion and sportsman of the twentieth century.
Burying the Typewriter
The haunting true story of life behind the Iron Curtain, and one teenage girl’s flight from the Romanian secret police and the Ceausescu regime.
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The lauded, bestselling memoir of Dave Eggers's extraordinary life with his younger brother.
Eating People is Wrong
Malcolm Bradbury’s first novel is a timeless and brilliant fiction about the clash of cultures and generations which has beset academia since it began.
To the Hermitage
A superbly funny and entertaining novel from a master of modern literature.
Hallucinations
From the bestselling author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a provocative investigation into hallucinations – auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory – their many guises, their physiological sources, and their personal and cultural resonances.
River of Consciousness
The River of Consciousness is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime's research into the way the brain works by the celebrated late neurologist Oliver Sacks.
Mind's Eye
The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat describes how we experience the visual world.
Terms of Endearment
The acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning film, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove.
Last Kind Words Saloon
The stunning final novel from the bestselling author of Lonesome Dove.
Lola Quartet
A gripping study of the past mistakes and future ambitions, music, love and thwarted dreams, from the bestselling author of Station Eleven
Singer's Gun
From the bestselling author of Station Eleven comes a thrilling novel about love, identity and the ghosts of the past who refuse to stay buried.
Last Night in Montreal
The debut novel from the bestselling author of Station Eleven, a thrilling literary crime novel about a life on the run, and what we sacrifice to keep moving.
Hold Your Own
From the generation-defining spoken word poet, Hold Your Own is an incendiary reworking of the life of the mythical prophet Tiresias. Now part of the Picador Collection.
Letters Between a Father and Son
An astonishing selection of letters from V. S. Naipaul’s formative years, rich with compassion, literary beauty and a genuine literary intent. Now part of the Picador Collection.
Guerrillas
V. S. Naipaul’s novel of fraudulent revolution, schizophrenia and murder. Now part of the Picador Collection.
Loss of El Dorado
A passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now part of the Picador Collection.
India: A Million Mutinies Now
V.S. Naipaul’s classic account of his journey around India, republished as part of the Picador Collection.
Miguel Street
An astonishing novel about hope, despair, poverty and laughter, the first book written by Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul.
Hiding Place
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000, this is an extraordinary and heart-breaking novel set in Cardiff's Tiger Bay.
Kills
An astonishing landmark novel in four books, The Kills is both a political thriller and a bravura literary performance, republished into the Picador Collection.
Waxwings
A moving and exquisitely written tale of immigration and belonging in modern America.
Island of the Colour-blind
From the bestselling author of Awakenings, Musicophilia and Hallucinations.
Oaxaca Journal
Oliver Sacks turns his attention away from the human mind to investigate a fascinating and exotic Mexican province.
Nobody Move
A fast and furious novel from an award-winning author.
Breakfast on Pluto
The Booker Prize-shortlisted novel from one of Ireland’s leading lights.
Goldengrove
A dark and gripping cat-and-mouse comedy from twice Booker-shortlisted author Patrick McCabe.
Poguemahone
A gripping state-of-the-nation novel in verse by one of Ireland's most important writers, Patrick McCabe.
Our Souls at Night
A stunning novel about growing old with grace, from the Folio Prize-shortlisted author of Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction.