Picador has seen off competition from 11 other publishers to win a fiercely contested six-figure, pre-fair auction, acquiring UK and Commonwealth rights in historical fiction début The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton.

Editorial director Francesca Main signed the deal with Juliet Mushens at The Agency Group, after the...

Picador is to publish the official film tie-in edition for the forthcoming adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

The film, starring Carey Mulligan and Leonardo di Caprio, gets its UK release on 17th May.

The book will feature artwork from the film and an exclusive interview with director Baz...

For Struan Robertson, a 17-year-old genius from Scotland, London is more exotic than Paris or Thailand, a place from which no one returns.

Despite this—encouraged by his English teacher Mr Fox—he takes on the job of carer for Phillip Prys, a revered author who has suffered a stroke, heading off to Hampstead in the...

Picador author Julia Lovell has won the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, which recognises work which contributes to political and cultural understanding between the West and the East.

Lovell’s non-fiction work The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China was picked as the winner from a shortlist of three...