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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Indecision
Benjamin Kunkel
Where You Once Belonged
Kent Haruf
Vengeance
Benjamin Black
If This Is Home
Stuart Evers
LAURA LAMONT'S LIFE IN PICTURES
Emma Straub
Accidents Happen
Louise Millar
The Book of Life
Stuart Nadler
The Green Years
A. J. Cronin
The Stars Look Down
A. J. Cronin
Beyond This Place
A. J. Cronin
Gracie Lindsay
A. J. Cronin
Lady with Carnations
A. J. Cronin
Shannon's Way
A. J. Cronin
A Song of Sixpence
A. J. Cronin
The Judas Tree
A. J. Cronin
The Minstrel Boy
A. J. Cronin
The Northern Light
A. J. Cronin
The Spanish Gardener
A. J. Cronin
Three Loves
A. J. Cronin
An Accidental Light
Elizabeth Diamond
The Peacock Spring
Rumer Godden
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
B S Johnson
Albert Angelo
B S Johnson
Getting Even
Sarah Rayner
This is Paradise
Will Eaves
Only Say the Word
Niall Williams
The Septembers of Shiraz
Dalia Sofer
The Dissident
Nell Freudenberger
Signs of Life
Anna Raverat
T is for Trespass
Sue Grafton
U is for Undertow
Sue Grafton
Wish I May
Justine Picardie
The Silver Linings Playbook (film tie-in)
Matthew Quick
Hope: A Tragedy
Shalom Auslander
Noon
Aatish Taseer
Rates of Exchange
Malcolm Bradbury
Eating People is Wrong
Malcolm Bradbury
Nameless
Jessie Keane
Savages
Shirley Conran
Next to Love
Ellen Feldman