Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically...

When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and...

Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful, moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold explores the...

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

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

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Patrick Bateman has it...

How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk...

George Orwell's 1984 has become a defining narrative of the modern world. Its cultural influence can be observed in some of the...

This is a story about how the extreme became mainstream. It reveals how the truth became ‘fake news’, how fringe ideas spread,...

The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards.

'Painfully funny. The pain and the...

Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would...

Don DeLillo's seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece, it concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly...

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In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already...

Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated...

Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures,...

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of...

The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon, which follows on from Dead Man's Walk, follows ranchers Gus and Call...

Taking you deep into the heart of the American West, Dead Man's Walk is the first book in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove...

An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A...

Nathan Hill's brilliant debut takes the reader from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street;...

In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a...

Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and...

This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.

This is London...

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh is a moving story of hope and forgiveness, and an international bestseller.

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Set fifteen years after the seismic events of Brilliance of the Moon, The Harsh Cry of the Heron is an elegiac and bittersweet...

The Middle Country, home of the Otori clan is ruled by a benign but weak leader while in the East, the warrior-like Tohan are...

Like some lost chapters from the Celtic folk tradition, Grimoire tells stories of ordinary people caught up, suddenly, in the...

A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme...

Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest...

In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop...

An ambitious warlord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands.
A stubborn father forces his younger son to surrender his...