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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Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
Western Lane
Chetna Maroo
Where There Was Fire
John Manuel Arias
How I Won A Nobel Prize
Julius Taranto
The World and All That It Holds
Aleksandar Hemon
Child of God
Cormac McCarthy
What You Need From The Night
Laurent Petitmangin
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge
Lizzie Pook
Wellness
Nathan Hill
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
Audrey Burges
The People in the Trees
Hanya Yanagihara
The Sparsholt Affair
Alan Hollinghurst
The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst
The Little Old Lady Strikes Back
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
The Trees
Percival Everett
Dr. No
Percival Everett
Out There Screaming
Jordan Peele
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy
Before Your Memory Fades
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Hinterland
Arno Geiger
Anam
André Dao
Almost English
Charlotte Mendelson
Daughters of Jerusalem
Charlotte Mendelson
When We Were Bad
Charlotte Mendelson
The Women Could Fly
Megan Giddings
Disorientation
Elaine Hsieh Chou
Open Throat
Henry Hoke
The Bastard Factory
Chris Kraus
The House of Fortune
Jessie Burton
The Centre
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Hearts and Bones
Niamh Mulvey
Briefly, A Delicious Life
Nell Stevens
Locks
Ashleigh Nugent
Eden
Jim Crace
Stone Blind
Natalie Haynes
The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings
Joanna Nadin
Trust
Hernan Diaz
We Had To Remove This Post
Hanna Bervoets
The God of that Summer
Ralf Rothmann