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

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...

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,...

Published in 1967 in Japan to huge controversy, Silence is Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed novel and a classic of its...

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

Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from...

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

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

Patrick Bateman has it...

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half...

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...

Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other.

When the body...

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