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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Classic Horror Stories
David Stuart Davies
Liars
Sarah Manguso
The Lantern of Lost Memories
Sanaka Hiiragi
The Accidental Malay
Karina Robles Bahrin
Wife
Charlotte Mendelson
The Lost Lover
Karen Swan
The Centre
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Classic Stories of the Sea
Harriet Sanders
The Orchard Keeper
Cormac McCarthy
Classic Fantasy Stories
Farah Mendlesohn
Anyone's Ghost
August Thompson
The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything
Kara Gnodde
Open Throat
Henry Hoke
Rosarita
Anita Desai
Locks
Ashleigh Nugent
Bonding
Mariel Franklin
The Light Years
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Outer Dark
Cormac McCarthy
The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher
Ahn Do-hyun
Quartet in Autumn
Barbara Pym
Spirits Abroad
Zen Cho
Sea Change
Gina Chung
Long Island
Colm Tóibín
Mothers and Sons
Colm Tóibín
Before We Say Goodbye
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
Catherine Mack
The Sea
John Banville
Becky
Sarah May
Darling Girls
Sally Hepworth
The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Hisashi Kashiwai
The Story of the Night
Colm Tóibín
The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Tóibín
The Heather Blazing
Colm Tóibín
The Master
Colm Tóibín
The South
Colm Tóibín
Silence
Shusaku Endo
Palazzo
Danielle Steel
Cast a Cold Eye
Robbie Morrison
Not Alone
Sarah K Jackson
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Percival Everett