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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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
Madensky Square
Eva Ibbotson
The Knock
Jessie Keane
Akin
Emma Donoghue
Lark Rise to Candleford
Flora Thompson
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
A. Frederics
Anne of Avonlea
L. M. Montgomery
Sweet Home
Wendy Erskine
A Perfect Execution
Tim Binding
From The Wreck
Jane Rawson
Homeland
Fernando Aramburu
The Age of Light
Whitney Scharer
The Iliad
Homer
The Aeneid
Virgil
Salt Slow
Julia Armfield
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Selected Poems
William Wordsworth
In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul