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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

A story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of a family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define, shape, scar and heal them

Four Letters Of Love

A life-affirming tribute to human folly, to fate, and to the miracle of love.

Lovely Bones

A haunting and heartbreaking novel narrated from heaven as a young girl watches over her family and killer.

Woman Warrior

A seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity

South

Colm Tóibín's debut novel The South, is a classic novel of art, sacrifice, and courage.

Drowned Book

Picador's second collection from one of the finest English poets of the last fifty years

Emperor's Children

In the glittering tradition of Edith Wharton, The Emperor's Children examines life in upper-crust Manhattan, and tells a compelling story of ambition, vanity and tragedy

Liars' Club

The international bestseller from a prize-winning poet and critic

King of the World

A hugely literate, intelligent evocation of the great heavyweight champion and sportsman of the twentieth century.

Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's multi-million copy bestseller in a Picador Classic edition, translated by Ros Schwartz, with an introduction by Kate Mosse.

Long View

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, this is a profound, heartbreaking portrait of a marriage at its end.

Genius of Shakespeare

Ambitious, exceptionally well informed and immensely engaging . . . Bate writes with unflagging energy, intelligence, with and enthusiasm' Daily Telegraph

Psalm Killer

One of the most compelling, haunting and original thrillers I have ever read, by one of Britain's most visionary writers and film-makers' David Peace

Boy's Own Story

Every so often a novel comes along that is so ambitious in its intention and so confident of its voice that it reminds us what a singular and potent thing a novel can be' San Francisco Chronicle

Face on the Cutting-Room Floor

An extraordinary post-modern detective novel from an author who remained a mystery for decades, now relaunched as a Picador Classic.

Soft City

One of the classics of travel writing, Soft City is an exploration of the individual's relationship with urban living.

Man Without Qualities

Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force

Idea of Perfection

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001, The Idea of Perfection is a witty and tender romance.

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

A classic of Canadian literature and a vivid, moving story of the clash – and coming together – of cultures.

Dead Girls

Inspired by true events, The Dead Girls is the story of the unexplained deaths of six young prostitutes, buried in the back yard of a small-town brothel.

Flower Beneath the Foot

A ‘delightfully funny’ novel by ‘our first modernist novelist’ (according Alan Hollinghurst) – the story of a court on the eve of a royal wedding.

Oreo

A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City.

Master and Margarita

A fully annotated translation of the most complete text of Bulgakov’s exuberant comic masterpiece.

Master

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.

How Proust Can Change Your Life

A fascinating and illuminating look at Proust’s most famous works by renowned philosopher Alain de Botton.

In a Free State

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971, In a Free State is one of Sir V. S. Naipaul's best-loved works, a story of disenfranchisement and the search for belonging.