Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without...

Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were...

In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and...

Bridget Jones has finally found love with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. The Wilderness Years are over! But for how long... and is...

Welcome to Bridget’s first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive.

A dazzlingly urban satire on...

Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in an incredibly niche field, he spends his days...

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is a story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home,...

An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often...

A portal through time forces a fabric-seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past errors and the temptation of second chances;...

From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth to the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a...

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...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

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

Jack lives with his Ma...