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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Exhalation
Ted Chiang
An Area of Darkness
V.S. Naipaul
Jaws
Peter Benchley
Wellness
Nathan Hill
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Shadow in The Corner & Other Classic Ghost Stories
Marcus Clapham
Trumpet
Jackie Kay
Plainsong
Kent Haruf
Where There Was Fire
John Manuel Arias
Classic Horror Stories
David Stuart Davies
The Accidental Malay
Karina Robles Bahrin
The Centre
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Classic Stories of the Sea
Harriet Sanders
The Orchard Keeper
Cormac McCarthy
Classic Fantasy Stories
Farah Mendlesohn
The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything
Kara Gnodde
Open Throat
Henry Hoke
Locks
Ashleigh Nugent
The Light Years
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Marking Time
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Confusion
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Casting Off
Elizabeth Jane Howard
All Change
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
Mothers and Sons
Colm Tóibín
Before We Say Goodbye
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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