Fiction: Special Features

WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD 2023 FOR THE LAST GRUDGE The chilling new Scandinavian thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, perfect for...

'You'll get used to things, you'll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.'Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived a...

All the stories in Standing Her Ground have been chosen to celebrate the skill, the passion and achievements of women writers spanning one hundred ...

Powerful, profound and deeply moving, new fiction by Afghan women writers will expand your mind and elevate your heart ELIF SHAFAK***A Financial Ti...

* A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference* Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire* In an artific...

Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to ...

September 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother. At the very same...

Malika Moustadraf is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her uncompromising depiction of life on the margins. ...

A twisty collection of short stories from the master of classic crime fiction, Peter Lovesey, one of which stars his most popular creation, Peter D...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksThe world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR SHORT STORY OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR ALCS TOM-GALLON TRUST...

In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identi...

A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have. Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things arent made for her, she isnt destined t...

Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year David Mills, The Sunday TimesA really excellent suspense nove...

A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness's masterpieceLate one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village,...

Richly engaging . . . Skilfully translated by David Homel - Michael Arditti, SpectatorA touching tale of a beleaguered dreamer . . . Lightness bal...

A mother and son inhabit an isolated and increasingly dangerous private world.The third and final installment of Ariana Harwicz's Involuntary Trilo...

'[I was] completely transported . . . so sparely and yet vividly told. I admired it immensely' Clare Chambers'Aroa Moreno Durán writes with a rare ...

'Minor's acute, elliptical observations and silky prose are a delight to read, as the misunderstandings, machinations and mysteries of past and pre...

'Jakuta Alikavazovic writes with lyric precision while making the limits of language felt. We need all of her books in English.' Ben Lerner**Longli...

''Nervous System is fast, uncompromising and shimmering with intelligence'' Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater''Meruane is one of the one or two gre...

A gem of a book, easily the best I''ve read this year. A contemporary police procedural with a literary edge. I was rooting for the flawed, but ...