Picador Collection
American Psycho
An international bestseller and true modern classic, American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.
Blood Meridian
A chaotically violent and hauntingly beautiful novel from one of the greatest American novelists, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy.
Line of Beauty
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is exquisitely written, wryly funny and powerfully moving - a perfectly realized tale of our times.
Little Life
A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory.
Manual for Cleaning Women
This collection of raw and remarkable short fiction saw Lucia Berlin, little known in her lifetime, finally become lauded as an important figure in American letters
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
A million-copy bestseller by the twentieth century's greatest neurologist.
Middle Passage
A lost modern classic, this wildly genre-bending naval adventure is a towering work of American literature and perfect for fans of Colson Whitehead and Marlon James
Red Dust Road
A memoir and soul-searching journey by Jackie Kay.
Room
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world.
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
The classic book on social media and public shaming, now with an extra chapter examining the shaming of Monica Lewinsky.
Station Eleven
An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse.
White Noise
A brilliantly black and funny novel from the highly acclaimed author of Underworld - now a major new Netflix film from Noah Baumbach starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig
Cultural Amnesia
A dizzying, erudite tour of twentieth-century culture from essayist, critic and poet Clive James.
Nevada
The cult classic that inspired the new wave of transgender fiction – published in the UK for the first time.
Annie John
The classic coming-of-age story of a precocious young girl’s deteriorating relationship with her mother, as she enters adolescence and leaves her childhood behind on the idyllic island of Antigua.
Lucy
A classic coming-of-age story from Jamaica Kincaid, following a young woman as she enters adulthood against the backdrop of a strange and unfamiliar country.
Autobiography of My Mother
Poetic, stirring, and disturbing, this novel is a powerful and unforgettable statement of one woman’s struggle for identity against a hostile backdrop of sexism and colonialism.
At the Bottom of the River
The first short-story collection from Jamaica Kincaid, this is a stunning evocation of life as a young Afro-Caribbean woman.
Among Flowers
Jamaica Kincaid’s engrossing account of a three-week trek through the Himalayas with fellow horticulturalists, intertwining mediations on the stunning landscapes with observations on culture, tourism and family.
All the Pretty Horses
The first in his legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses was Cormac McCarthy's breakthrough novel – a coming-of-age western that remains a classic of American literature.
Crossing
A young boy comes of age in the desolate mountains of the Mexican border, in the second volume of the late Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy.
Cities of the Plain
After the childhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing, an ill-fated love affair across the US-Mexico border brings Cormac McCarthy's haunting Border Trilogy to its devastating conclusion.
No Country for Old Men
Vivid, thrilling and visceral, No Country For Old Men is set along the familiar bloody frontier of the American South, portraying a time when drug agents and hit men ruled the land . . .
Road
Civilization destroyed, this is the story of a father and son as they journey across a post-apocalyptic America. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.
End Zone
A rich parody of the parallels between the jargon of football and the jargon of battle – and a touch of cold-war existentialism – makes this powerful novel as hilarious as it is relevant.
Great Jones Street
A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relevant than ever in our celebrity-obsessed times.
Mao II
Reclusive writer Bill Gray escapes his failed novel into a world of political violence.
Names
A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself.
Underworld
An epic novel combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years of American history.
Less Than Zero
A disturbing portrayal of privileged and immoral LA teenagers, Less Than Zero is a cult classic.
Rules of Attraction
A startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future – or even the present – who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle.
Lunar Park
From Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, comes Lunar Park – the hilarious, horrific true story of his rocketing fame, brutal self-destruction and second chance at life.
Migraine
From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
Awakenings
The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
Leg to Stand On
The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
Uncle Tungsten
From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
On the Move
An impassioned, tender and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
My Garden (Book)
One of the most important literary voices of the twentieth century on one of her greatest loves - gardening.
Talk Stories
Originally featured in the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column, these are Jamaica Kincaid’s first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.
My Brother
Jamaica Kincaid's poweful and moving account of the life and death of her younger brother.
Mr Potter
Jamaica Kincaid’s poetic and affecting story of an ordinary man attempting to make a home on the island of Antigua.
Sparsholt Affair
The Sparsholt Affair is the long-awaited sixth novel from the supreme stylist of British fiction and previous winner of the Man Booker Prize. From Oxford during the dark days of the Second World War to contemporary London, this is a masterly novel about sexuality, art and family secrets.
Stranger's Child
The No.1 bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
Story of the Night
A love story full of honesty and truth: Colm TóibÃn portrays a difficult relationship during dark times
Blackwater Lightship
A story of resolution, compassion and love, The Blackwater Lightship reveals the intense connection between grandmother, mother and daughter during a family crisis
Heather Blazing
The Heather Blazing is a wonderful character study of a man, his childhood, family, and community.
Master
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.
Mothers and Sons
A stunning collection of nine stories that teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.
South
Colm TóibÃn's debut novel, The South is a classic story of art, sacrifice, and courage
Psychopath Test
Jon Ronson's screamingly funny and deeply disturbing classic exploration of psychopathy.
People in the Trees
The extraordinary first novel by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon that is A Little Life.
World's Wife
A unique collection of feminist poems from the former Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology, reissued as part of the Picador Collection.
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer's acclaimed account of a disastrous expedition on Mt Everest.
See Now Then
A story of a marriage, Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then is one of her most emotionally and thematically daring works.
Child of God
Brutal and disturbing, this is a novel that examines the darkest shades of human experience with dignity and grace.
Feminine Gospels
A dazzling, dashing collection from the 2009-2019 Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom reissued in the Picador Collection.
Into the Wild
What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life?
Essays In Love
The classic book on love by the bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy.
Stories of Your Life and Others
The debut collection of short fiction from science fiction legend Ted Chiang, including the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film Arrival.
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever . . .
Burial Rites
Inspired by a true story, Burial Rites is a stunning work of historical fiction following the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.
Damned If I Do
A brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America's most inventive living writers.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A brilliant satire of mistaken identity, race and class in America.
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
Assumption
A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of The Trees and James.
So Much Blue
Percival Everett's deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a gorgeous novel.
Telephone
An arresting story of parental love, loss and grief from one of America's finest writers.
Quarantine
Jim Crace's Booker-shortlisted masterpiece.
Silence
Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed novel.
Suttree
Alone and exiled on a dilapidated houseboat, a man named Suttree lives amongst the outcasts of humanity. From Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and All the Pretty Horses.
Unquiet Mind
A definitive examination of manic depression.
Them: Adventures with Extremists
The brilliant Jon Ronson takes an hilarious and troubling journey into the world of extremists.
Sea
Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize
Wonder
From the bestselling author of Room, a gripping and deeply moving story of progress and reaction, of evil and love.
Outer Dark
A violent, biblical novel of sin and guilt, from the legendary author of Blood Meridian and The Road.
Lost at Sea
This bestselling collection of mini adventure stories showcases the very best of Jon Ronson's writings from the fringes of society.
Bad Land
Jonathan Raban's echnating history of the Great Plains of America, charting the untold story of the land and the ravages of the Great Depression.