Picador Collection
Mr Potter
Jamaica Kincaid’s poetic and affecting story of an ordinary man attempting to make a home on the island of Antigua.
My Brother
Jamaica Kincaid's poweful and moving account of the life and death of her younger brother.
My Garden (Book)
One of the most important literary voices of the twentieth century on one of her greatest loves - gardening.
Talk Stories
Originally featured in the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column, these are Jamaica Kincaid’s first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.
See Now Then
A story of a marriage, Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then is one of her most emotionally and thematically daring works.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Damned If I Do
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
Telephone
Assumption
So Much Blue
Migraine
From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
Leg to Stand On
The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
Awakenings
The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
Uncle Tungsten
From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
On the Move
An impassioned, tender and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
Less Than Zero
A disturbing portrayal of privileged and immoral LA teenagers, Less Than Zero is a cult classic.
Rules of Attraction
A startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future – or even the present – who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle.
Lunar Park
From Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, comes Lunar Park – the hilarious, horrific true story of his rocketing fame, brutal self-destruction and second chance at life.
Names
A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself.
Underworld
An epic novel combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years of American history.
Mao II
Reclusive writer Bill Gray escapes his failed novel into a world of political violence.
End Zone
A rich parody of the parallels between the jargon of football and the jargon of battle – and a touch of cold-war existentialism – makes this powerful novel as hilarious as it is relevant.
Great Jones Street
A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relevant than ever in our celebrity-obsessed times.
All the Pretty Horses
The first in his legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses was Cormac McCarthy's breakthrough novel – a coming-of-age western that remains a classic of American literature.
Crossing
A young boy comes of age in the desolate mountains of the Mexican border, in the second volume of the late Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy.
Cities of the Plain
After the childhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing, an ill-fated love affair across the US-Mexico border brings Cormac McCarthy's haunting Border Trilogy to its devastating conclusion.
No Country for Old Men
Vivid, thrilling and visceral, No Country For Old Men is set along the familiar bloody frontier of the American South, portraying a time when drug agents and hit men ruled the land . . .
Road
Civilization destroyed, this is the story of a father and son as they journey across a post-apocalyptic America. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.
Annie John
The classic coming-of-age story of a precocious young girl’s deteriorating relationship with her mother, as she enters adolescence and leaves her childhood behind on the idyllic island of Antigua.
Lucy
A classic coming-of-age story from Jamaica Kincaid, following a young woman as she enters adulthood against the backdrop of a strange and unfamiliar country.
At the Bottom of the River
The first short-story collection from Jamaica Kincaid, this is a stunning evocation of life as a young Afro-Caribbean woman.
Autobiography of My Mother
Poetic, stirring, and disturbing, this novel is a powerful and unforgettable statement of one woman’s struggle for identity against a hostile backdrop of sexism and colonialism.
Among Flowers
Jamaica Kincaid’s engrossing account of a three-week trek through the Himalayas with fellow horticulturalists, intertwining mediations on the stunning landscapes with observations on culture, tourism and family.
Nevada
The cult classic that inspired the new wave of transgender fiction – published in the UK for the first time.
Cultural Amnesia
Clive James the essayist and cultural critic at his brilliant best – a dizzyingly erudite tour of twentieth-century culture.
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume One
The first three volumes of the critically-acclaimed, miillion copy best-selling memoir series from the inimitable Clive Jamesl - a hilarious and poignant account of a truly extraordinary life
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume Two
The final two volumes of the critically-acclaimed, miillion copy best-selling memoir series from the inimitable Clive James - a hilarious and poignant account of a truly extraordinary life
Room
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world.
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
The classic book on social media and public shaming, now with an extra chapter examining the shaming of Monica Lewinsky.
American Psycho
An international bestseller and true modern classic, American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.
Line of Beauty
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is exquisitely written, wryly funny and powerfully moving - a perfectly realized tale of our times.
White Noise
A brilliantly black and funny novel from the highly acclaimed author of Underworld - now a major new Netflix film from Noah Baumbach starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig
Blood Meridian
A chaotically violent and hauntingly beautiful novel from one of the greatest American novelists, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy.
Red Dust Road
A memoir and soul-searching journey by Jackie Kay.
Manual for Cleaning Women
This collection of raw and remarkable short fiction saw Lucia Berlin, little known in her lifetime, finally become lauded as an important figure in American letters
Station Eleven
An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse.
Middle Passage
A lost modern classic, this wildly genre-bending naval adventure is a towering work of American literature and perfect for fans of Colson Whitehead and Marlon James
A House for Mr Biswas
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
A million-copy bestseller by the twentieth century's greatest neurologist.
Little Life
A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory.
Sparsholt Affair
The Sparsholt Affair is the long-awaited sixth novel from the supreme stylist of British fiction and previous winner of the Man Booker Prize. From Oxford during the dark days of the Second World War to contemporary London, this is a masterly novel about sexuality, art and family secrets.
Stranger's Child
The No.1 bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.