A powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked, from Natalie Haynes, the...

If we're talking agoraphobia, we're talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself in the turn of one page, re-discover...

For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way...

This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning - in...

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

From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Akkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly...

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...

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of...

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...

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

Meet Drew Lord Haig, called upon to sing the obscure hit from his youth at a paramilitary event. Or Max, who recalls an eventful...

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a...

Writers & Lovers established Lily King as one of our most beloved authors of contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time ever,...

Recently out of a devastating love affair and mourning the loss of her beloved mum, Casey is lost. The novel she has been writing...

Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver...

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,...

'A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world' - The Times
'Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood' - New Statesman
'A...

Millions of Americans have lost confidence in their political and economic system. After years of stagnant wages, volatile job...

Leonard Lessing once cast a spell on stage, hypnotizing crowds with his improvised jazz, easy in his music, at home in the...

In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life - both as a doctor engaged with the central...

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

'Painfully funny. The pain and the...

Marianne Power was stuck in a rut. Then one day she wondered: could self-help books help her find the elusive perfect life?
She...

As the post-World War II economic boom began to falter in the late 1960s, a new breed of economists gained influence and power....

Patrick Melrose. Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's BAFTA award-winning Emmy nominated...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young...

The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by...

I know what my husband would say: that I have too much time on my hands; that I need to keep myself busy. That I need to take my...