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Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

A young Indian servant in Washington....

A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. With an...

The first step was learning to read, but if she really wants to turn her life around, Maggsie is going to have to trust other...

Set in the author's native Belfast, the ten stories in Sweet Home lay bare the heartbreak and quiet tragedies that run under the...

2005. Glasgow is named Europe's Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife culture. In the housing schemes of...

A mother moves to Geneva with her husband and their two young children. In their newly rented apartment, she is surrounded by...

Akin is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of Room.

A retired...

What if the person you thought you'd lost forever walked back into your life?

On a sunny morning in March 1987, four-year-old...

Sometimes a crisis can bring people together . . .

Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a...

Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of...

For fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Joanna Nadin's The Talk of Pram Town tells a story about mothers, daughters and...

Sometimes the end is only the beginning...

Annie is single, unemployed and just a bit stuck when her beloved father dies...

The Promise is a unforgettable story about finding love, hope and joy in even the darkest moments, by the Sunday Times bestseller...

In Alligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat captures luminously how it feels to be 'other': as a Syrian, as an Arab, as an...

From the green hilltops of Kampala, to the terraced houses of London, Neema Shah's extraordinarily moving debut Kololo Hill...

Uganda 1972

A devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety days. They must take only what...

Blue in Chicago brings together the bittersweet short stories of the remarkable American writer Bette Howland. Hailed as a major...

Sara hasn't seen or heard from her childhood best-friend, Lejla, in years. She's comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her...

Sara hasn't seen or heard from her childhood best friend, Lejla, in years. She's comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her...

In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of...

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years....

A college freshman, flying home, strikes up an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the airplane. A long-lost...

Meet Gloria, Gam Gam, Darkness, Miss Hennepin County, and their unlikely owner. Over the course of a single year, our nameless...

Darkly witty, deeply moving - Jackie Polzin's Brood is a startlingly original debut novel about motherhood, marriage and grief,...

Something gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia's body, learning her life from the inside out. A shape-shifter. A disaster...

Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family's funeral parlour, doing make-up on the dead, might be unusual, but...

Bella was once a lost dog, but now she lives happily with her people, Lucas and Olivia, only occasionally recalling the hardships...

An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

Jack lives with his Ma...