Serpent's Tail

Explodes the gulf between modern materialism and traditional values.Author: Mia CoutoPublisher: Serpent's TailPublication Date: Sep 01, 2009Number of Pages: 192 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Against the odds, former steel worker Harry Perkins has led the Labour party to a stunning victory. Now he's going to dismantle Britain's nuclear warheads, bring finance under public control and...

"I can't recommend this marvellous piece of work enough." --Irvine WelshAltered State--now updated--is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the...

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a...

Agatha Christie meets The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August in this outstanding cross-genre locked room murder mystery.Author: Guy MorpussPublisher: Serpent'S TailPublication Date: Jun 20,...

Arthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen's got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous husband who's the founder of Britain's most successful tech company, stables full of horses, millions of...

Arthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen's got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous husband who's the founder of Britain's most successful tech company, stables full of horses, millions of...

"A shocker of a first novel . . . told with extraordinary restraint."--The New York Times"[Jonathan] Trigell masterfully builds sympathy for Jack."--Entertainment Weekly"A modern-day immorality tale...

Glamorous, beautiful Mummy has everything a woman could want. Except for a daughter of her very own. So when she sees Kim - heavily pregnant, glued to her phone and ignoring her eldest child in a...

Gentleman Jack: A Biography Of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer And Secret DiaristAuthor: Angela SteidelePublisher: Serpent's TailPublication Date: Jan 07, 2020Number of Pages: 352...

"The finest and noblest book of men and war that I have ever read."--Ernest Hemingway"I am sure it is the book of books so far as the British Army is concerned."--Lawrence of Arabia"A unique and...

This is a book about the untidy, complicated underbelly of love and love's end. Funny and true, wise and utterly authentic, you will recognise yourself over and over. I loved it.' Kit de WaalDid you...

Maria is a good woman and a good cleaner. She cleans for Elsie, the funny old bird who's losing her marbles, with the terrible husband. She cleans for Brian, the sweet man with the terrible boss. She...

The classic account of ambient music, with a new foreword by Michel FaberAuthor: David Toop, Michel FaberPublisher: Serpent'S TailPublication Date: Oct 30, 2018Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage:...

"On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp."--The New York Times Book Review on The...

The lives of second-generation Algerians in a Paris housing project, the basis of the award-winning film. "Writing that is both dazzling and economical and a moral and aesthetic elegance that does...

A spellbinding story of forbidden love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday GraingerAuthor: Fiona ShawPublisher: Serpent'S TailPublication Date: Jun 04, 2019Number of...

"This charming, vivid and poetic book captures the poignancy of immigrant life and all the unresolved pain of Africa's relationship with its former colonial powers."--Michela WrongSalie lives in...

Twelve-year-old Lesley has lived in the Homes since she was three weeks old, just one of a thousand unwanted children who occupy the village-like estate in the lowlands of Scotland in the 1960s. Life...

"A wonderful mix of magical realism and wordplay that has a similar tone to M?rquez at his best. Couto writes in an idiom all his own that feels authentically African."--InkIn Mozambique after the...

A beautiful, haunting novel by the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for LiteratureAuthor: Herta Müller, Martin ChalmersPublisher: Serpent'S TailPublication Date: Aug 09, 2016Number of Pages: 96...

Thomas Brogan is a serial killer. With a trail of bodies in his wake and the police hot on his heels, it seems like Thomas has nowhere left to hide. That is until he breaks into an abandoned house at...

Inspired by the heartbreaking true case of the Kerry babies, Nicola White's award-winning sequel to A Famished Heart explores the battle between sexual liberation and repression in 1980s Dublin...

Philip Teir weaves a finely-tuned story about life choices and lies, about childhood and adulthoodAuthor: Philip Teir, Tiina NunnallyPublisher: Serpent'S TailPublication Date: Jul 09, 2019Number of...

"Sordid, pathetic, senselessly exciting. . . has the immediacy and the significance of a nerve-shattering explosion."--The New RepublicThe depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to...

"An original and fresh tale, quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa. I enjoyed it very much."--Doris Lessing"A peculiarily African sensibility . . . a writer of fluid, fragmentary...

"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."--Booklist"This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."--The Washington PostJust thirty, with a well-paid...

Two Alpine factory workers who dream of finding a good man. Employing the conventions of romantic fiction, Jelinek dissects the double-standard by which women are held in their traditional place. "An...