The Treasure Hunt is the sixteenth gripping novel in Andrea Camilleri's darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano series.

When a...

Angelica's Smile is the seventeenth novel in the gripping and darkly funny Inspector Montalbano mysteries by Andrea...

Set in Sicily, Game of Mirrors is the eighteenth exciting instalment in the humorous Inspector Montalbano mysteries by Andrea...

Blade of Light is the nineteenth gripping addition to the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano Sicilian mysteries by...

A Voice in the Night is the twentieth compelling crime novel in the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea...

The great forces of population change - the balance of births, deaths and migrations - have made the world what it is today. They...

The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea...

The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Montalbano mystery from Italy's finest crime writer, Andrea Camilleri.

It's been...

The Cook of the Halcyon is the penultimate novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series from the master of Sicilian crime,...

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

When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes - war, famine, pandemic - we go in search...

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,...

No-one's there to watch her, so she just waits for the lights to turn on, waits to begin her performance.

No-one is watching...

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...

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...

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...

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