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Debut novel gathers plaudits from the critics
5 July 2010
'Anne Peile's Repeat it Today with Tears – a strange tale of longing and loneliness set in 1970s London – has the quality I rate most highly in a first novel, indeed any novel: I never knew what was going to happen next and I believed every single word."
Julie Myerson
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Cathi Unsworth & David Peace at Waterstone's Notting Hill Gate draws a crowd
17 May 2010
A recent event at Waterstone's Notting Hill Gate drew a sizeable crowd - including author Jake Arnott - and saw Cathi Unsworth interviewed by friend and fellow author David Peace.
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Amanda Smyth is shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize for BLACK ROCK
14 May 2010
The prize is administered by the Society of Authors.
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Danny King is the only guy on the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance
30 April 2010
BLUE COLLAR has been short-listed for this year's Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance, the UK's only award dedicated to comedy romance. read more
Filming begins on the screen adaptation of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
26 April 2010
Lynne Ramsay's big screen version of the Orange Prize winning novel by Lionel Shriver has begun filming in Connecticut.
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BLACK WATER RISING is on the Orange Prize Shortlist
20 April 2010
Announced at London Book Fair, the shortlist for the 2010 Orange Prize includes Attica Locke's debut novel, BLACK WATER RISING.
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Aifric Campbell's THE LOSS ADJUSTOR is published to widespread acclaim
20 April 2010
Aifric Campbell's second novel has been stealthily gathering praise from reviewers on both sides of the Irish sea.
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Announcing SERPENT'S TAIL CLASSICS
19 April 2010
We've been feeling pretty grown up lately - we're past the age of 21 now and as we've matured, we've been clocking up achievements - an Orange Prize winner, three Nobel winners to date, and lots more.
So what better way to mark our maturity than with a new CLASSICS list?
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BROKEN GLASS makes it to the Independent Foreign Fiction shortlist
19 April 2010
Congolese author Alain Mabanckou is one of a shortlist of six for the UK's most prestigious translation prizes. His novel, BROKEN GLASS, is a riotous black comedy set in a bar, where a man spends his days drinking and writing pastiches of the locals.
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Attica Locke's BLACK WATER RISING is longlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize
18 March 2010
The debut crime fiction novel set in 1980s Houston Texas has been honoured with an inclusion in the 2010 longlist.
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Alain Mabanckou's Broken Glass is on the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Longlist
15 March 2010
The Congolese author is on the longlist for perhaps the UK's most prestigious translation prize.
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Black Water Rising is nominated for four major awards
15 March 2010
Attica Locke's novel, a pacy thriller set in 1980s Houston Texas, has been nominated for a quartet of major American literary prizes.
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Ridley Scott to remake David Peace's RED RIDING
27 November 2009
The director of Blade Runner, Gladiator and Alien is to take David Peace's RED RIDING books, relocate them to the US, and remake them for cinema.
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Kate Pullinger wins the Canadian GOVERNOR GENERAL's prize for THE MISTRESS OF NOTHING
18 November 2009
Kate Pullinger has been announced as the recipient of the 2009 Governor General's Prize for THE MISTRESS OF NOTHING.
'A highly sensual evocation of place and time, Kate Pullinger’s
The Mistress of Nothing is a journey down the Nile that explores the subtle complexities of power, race, class and love during the Victorian era.'
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Join the Friends of Serpent's Tail on FACEBOOK
14 August 2008
Yes, it's happened. We're on there.
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Events
INDIE ALLIANCE WEEKEND at Foyles, featuring lots of Serpent's Tail talent !
11 September 2010 - 12 September 2010
Brought to you by the Independent Alliance, with Amanda Smyth, Elizabeth Wilson, Max Décharné, Aifric Campbell and more …
It may sound like something from Star Wars, but really the Independent Alliance is a network of independent publishers, joined together to ensure their extraordinarily diverse output reaches the widest audience possible.
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London's Burning: A Celebration of Radical London at Housmans
This event has now taken place
Cathi Unsworth and Paul Willetts talk SOHO NOIR as part of Housmans' Radical London season.
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Amanda Smyth at an ACE STORIES night in Brighton
This event has now taken place
Come hear Amanda Smyth read from Black Rock at hip literary salon ACE STORIES in Brighton on 11th July.
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Hot Deals/Free Stuff
3 for 2 on all books
27th Feb 2009
From now until the end of May - add any three books to your shopping cart, the cheapest will be free.
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New books
Shoedog (Serpent’s Tail Classics)
TREME and THE WIRE’s George Pelecanos gives us his classic noir road trip novel - his personal favourite read more
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We Need To Talk About Kevin (Serpent’s Tail Classics)
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2005 read more
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The Mistress of Nothing
Winner of the 2009 Governor General’s Award for Fiction (Canada) read more
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Outsourced
Following on from his ultra noir trilogy – Small Crimes, Pariah and Killer - is Outsourced, Zeltserman's most commercial book to date. A classic heist thriller pitched somewhere between Ocean's Ele... read more
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Memoirs of a Geezer
Written in his own unmistakable voice, this is a frank and fascinating account of a geezer’s life in the music business. Jah Wobble offers the most authentic insider’s account of the beginning of ... read more
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The Book of Disquiet (Serpent’s Tail Classics)
NEW INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM BOYD
'In the middle of the conversations with myself that make up this book, I often feel a sudden need to talk to someone else, so I address the light hovering, a...
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A Rocket in my Pocket
A Rocket in my Pocket is the story of rockabilly music, the primal 50s howl of rockin’ rage that helped start it all.
Rockabilly had its roots in country, blues, folk, hillbilly, R&B, boogi...
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Repeat It Today With Tears
‘I never knew what was going to happen next and I believed every single word’ - Julie Myerson, Observer read more
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Seconds Out
New York, 1923, the Argentine Luis Angel Firpo, called the Wild Bull of the Pampas, knocks out of the ring the American Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world. In Buenos Aires, the match is ... read more
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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
‘A Rabelaisian picture of polygamous marriage,comically capturing the physical realities of ordinary Nigerian life.’ Giles Foden read more
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Secret Affairs
In Secret Affairs, Mark Curtis shows how Britain has helped create the Islamic terrorism that now threatens us. Exploring how the bombings of 7/7 can be traced back to groups and individuals trained a... read more
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Serpent’s Tail Classics)
The time is 1948. The town is Los Angeles. The hero is Easy Rawlins, an out of work black war veteran. The mortgage payment’s coming due, so Easy accepts the assignment of finding Daphne Monet, a bl... read more
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Bank of the Black Sheep
‘Bleakly funny, with a spectacularly flawed hero and a peculiarly uplifting (if gory) ending, Bank of the Black Sheep is a fitting conclusion to a sequence best described as extreme noir’- Laura Wilson, Guardian read more
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Wake Up Dead
A split-second decision with no second chance. Get it wrong and you WAKE UP DEAD. read more
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Black Water Rising
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 read more
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Will You Manage?
"Bloody obvious isn't it: tell the defenders to route one out to Drogba"
"That's what they've been doing all night and look where it's got them"
"The final ball has just not been weighted enou...
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The Last Patriarch
Winner of the 2009 Prix Ulysse (France) for best debut novel and the Catalan Ramon Llull Prize read more
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Elliot Allagash
Seymour is a loser. Until he becomes best friends with an evil billionaire. read more
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The Passport
From the 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature read more
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