Picquier accepts all genres from Asia. The house publishes 1210 titles in its catalog. The backlist contains more than 350 works. Dominique Picquier, Philippe's sister, is a famous book designer. Her covers guarantee catalog coherence, and reinforce the editorial policy.
Among Picquier's works are Memoirs of a Geisha by Yuki Inoue, Memoirs of a Eunuch in the Forbidden City by Dan Shi, and Coin Locker Babies by Ryū Murakami. Each of these titles had production runs of more than 40,000 copies.
Adult
The adult collections department is dedicated to human sciences, proposing works of theology, documentaries, historical, and ethnology. They offer studies of the life, of the behavior and of the civilization of these countries. Beautiful books are also present, including photography, painting, and cookbooks.
Among graphic arts, the house offers comic strips and manga.
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The essays it publishes consider literature, art, Asian thought, and history.
The house catalog offers to a wide choice of novels (literary or popular), crime novels, and historical novels. Picquier also developed a domain dedicated to eroticism, in a collection named "Du pavillon des corps curieux". Biographies and testimonies present strong personalities of writers, including countries like China.
Youth
In 2003, Éditions Philippe Picquier created its Picquier Jeunesse youth catalog. “Tales, poetry, illustrated book, childhood and teen narratives, at youngs to the teenagers, to laugh or think, to question or have fun, they also show the reader and culture vitality. Here is thus a new collection of books to pass through the borders to the children and to discover Asia with new eyes.” These enlarge its readership with illustrated books, novels and sagas in several volumes.
