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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Things to Come and Go
Bette Howland

Disorientation
Elaine Hsieh Chou

The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey

The Franchise Affair
Josephine Tey

The Roughest Draft
Emily Wibberley
Austin Siegemund-Broka

Eden
Jim Crace

The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings
Joanna Nadin

Trust
Hernan Diaz

We Had To Remove This Post
Hanna Bervoets

The Club
Ellery Lloyd

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Hugh Thomson

Emma
Jane Austen
Hugh Thomson

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Hugh Thomson

All The Lovers In The Night
Mieko Kawakami

Concerning My Daughter
Kim Hye-jin

Very Cold People
Sarah Manguso

Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart

The Secret Keeper
Kate Morton

Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
Maddie Mortimer

Dirt Town
Hayley Scrivenor

The Party House
Lin Anderson

Our Wives Under The Sea
Julia Armfield

Treasures of Cornwall: A Literary Anthology
Luke Thompson

Yorkshire: A Literary Landscape
David Stuart Davies

The Exhibitionist
Charlotte Mendelson

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Danielle Evans

New Animal
Ella Baxter

The Peacock Spring
Rumer Godden

Dance Move
Wendy Erskine

Vladimir
Julia May Jonas

Do I Know You?
Emily Wibberley
Austin Siegemund-Broka

Five Tuesdays in Winter
Lily King

Running Scared
Mandasue Heller

Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
Jeffrey Archer

The Eleventh Commandment
Jeffrey Archer

The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis

Owner of a Lonely Heart
Eva Carter

A Time Outside This Time
Amitava Kumar

The Names
Don DeLillo