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 Winner
David Baldacci
The Flower Beneath the Foot
Ronald Firbank
Oreo
Fran Ross
The Riders
Tim Winton
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
Ann Cleeves
Sing Them Home
Pam Weaver
The Upstairs Room
Kate Murray-Browne
Safe
Ryan Gattis
Double Kiss
Ronnie O'Sullivan
The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness
Graham Caveney
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
Heart of Darkness & other stories
Joseph Conrad
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Patrick Melrose Volume 1
Edward St Aubyn
Often I Am Happy
Jens Christian Grøndahl
Marlena
Julie Buntin
The Reminders
Val Emmich
American War
Omar El Akkad
Swimmer Among the Stars
Kanishk Tharoor
The Hearts of Men
Nickolas Butler
Let Go My Hand
Edward Docx
Ithaca
Alan McMonagle
Perfect Little World
Kevin Wilson
Time of Hope
C. P. Snow
George Passant
C. P. Snow
The Masters
C. P. Snow
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor
Shattered Minds
Laura Lam
The Last Days of New Paris
China Miéville
All That's Left to Tell
Daniel Lowe
A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
Scenes of London Life
Charles Dickens
George Cruikshank
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Privateer
Tim Severin
Four to Score
Janet Evanovich
Never Screw Up
Jens Lapidus
A New Map of Love
Abi Oliver