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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 a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea...

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

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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...

A dreamily atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven is now an...