An extraordinary memoir about family, the past and mortality, and the final work from the peerless Jonathan Raban.

This is Jeremy Seal's quest, by means of a fez, for the heart of a country culturally and spiritually at odds with herself. The fez's opposing associations - both revered Eastern-Islamic headdress and banal tourist souvenir - exactly reflects Turkey's cultural faultline.

Jackie Kay brings her poetry to Picador with a brilliant new collection that crosses borders

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 'An achievement worthy to stand alongside those of Crace's great fictional influence, William Golding.' Sunday Times

The third novel in his amazing imaginative sequence focused on the fabulous city of New Crobuzon and its very special world

A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre

This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as 'the greatest living Irishwoman' - Augusta Gregory.

In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Colm Toibin investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.