Picador Classic
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.
Master and Margarita
A fully annotated translation of the most complete text of Bulgakov’s exuberant comic masterpiece.
How Proust Can Change Your Life
A fascinating and illuminating look at Proust’s most famous works by renowned philosopher Alain de Botton.
Lucky
A hard-hitting memoir from Alice Sebold, bestselling author of The Lovely Bones.
Gomorrah
The explosive international bestseller uncovering one of Naples’ most notorious organized criminal gangs.
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.
Border Trilogy
Two young cowboys come of age in the dying days of the American frontier – across this award-winning trilogy, loyalty, love and the brutality of this landscape will determine the course of their lives.
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.
Idea of Perfection
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001, The Idea of Perfection is a witty and tender romance.
In the Skin of a Lion
From the Booker Prize-winning author comes the sparkling and lyrical predecessor to the bestselling The English Patient.
History Man
A funny satire of academic life in the 1970s.
Man Without Qualities
Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force
Sport and a Pastime
The seductive classic that established Salter's reputation as one of the finest prose stylists of our time
Soft City
One of the classics of travel writing, Soft City is an exploration of the individual's relationship with urban living.
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.
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
Genius of Shakespeare
Ambitious, exceptionally well informed and immensely engaging . . . Bate writes with unflagging energy, intelligence, with and enthusiasm' Daily Telegraph
Long View
From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, this is a profound, heartbreaking portrait of a marriage at its end.