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A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East
New releases
Freeze
Kate Simants
A gripping thriller of obsession, murder and revenge, from a Bath Novel-award winning author
No Secrets
David Jackson
An addictive cat-and-mouse thriller from the bestselling author of Cry Baby
Make Me Clean
Tina Baker
A dark and witty domestic noir about a cleaner with a mysterious past, from the #1 Kindle bestselling author of Call Me Mummy
Queen K
Sarah Thomas
A suspenseful and Ripleyesque debut about a private tutor who discovers the dark world behind Russian wealth
BOOTH
Karen Joy Fowler
A major new audiobook from the author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – a bestseller in audio and print
Mona
Pola Oloixarac
The brilliant and provocative UK debut of a Latin American star of world literature
Cold Nights of Childhood
Tezer Özlü
A lyrical autofictional account of the author's fight to survive depression and carve out her own path in 1950s and 60s Istanbul
The Disenchantment
Celia Bell
Two women in seventeenth-century Paris are drawn into the volatile and mysterious Affair of the Poisons after a bid to keep their passionate romance a…
Blue Water
Leonora Nattrass
The sequel to 2021's critically acclaimed Black Drop, charting the adventures of reluctant spy Laurence Jago at sea.
Haruko/Love Poems
June Jordan
Searingly beautiful poems about compassion, resistance and desire by an iconic Black American activist and writer
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Janice Hallett
THE NEW MYSTERY PHENOMENON FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE APPEAL AND THE TWYFORD CODE
A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
An exquisitely beautiful new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.
Love Me Tender
Constance Debré
A provocative and fierce novel about motherhood, self-discovery and defiance
I Came All This Way to Meet You
Jami Attenberg
A fierce, and funny memoir of how the New York Times-bestselling author embraced her creativity – and how it saved her
The Homes
J.B. Mylet
Based on the true story of a childhood growing up in a home for abandoned and unwanted children, The Homes is a beautiful and haunting thriller.
A Loving, Faithful Animal
Josephine Rowe
A vivid, panoramic novel about the everyday wounds inflicted on battlefields both far away and at home
A Sabbatical in Leipzig: Shortlisted for the 2021 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year
Adrian Duncan
'Duncan brings a new way of seeing to the world of prose' Irish Times
Begars Abbey
V.L. Valentine
From the author of The Plague Letters comes a gothic tale of hauntings, family secrets and dark deeds.
Harrow
Joy Williams
A fresh, powerful story of surviving ecological disaster and solidarity between the generations by a giant of American literature
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Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit
The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward
Immersive, gripping, and delivering twist after twist: this is the must-read gothic thriller of 2021. It's so good you'll read it twice…
The Appeal
Janice Hallett
Described by The Sunday Times as 'A modern Christie', this is an extraordinarily inventive crime debut in which the reader is challenged to…
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
You can't choose your family, but they make choices for you.
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman
Revolution in a minor key: how young black women invented freedom
In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the prizewinning author of Her Body and Other Parties
Eat Up
Ruby Tandoh
Ruby Tandoh's radical manifesto takes the guilt out of eating and puts the pleasure back in.
African Psycho
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou's uproarious, fleet-footed English-language debut, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic to coincide with the publication of…
Seiobo There Below
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
One of László Krasznahorkai's finest novels available in stunning redesigned paperback
I Love Dick
Chris Kraus
The cult novel – now a major TV series by Jill Soloway, the creator of TRANSPARENT, starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn
Serpent's Tail Classics
Cold Nights of Childhood
Tezer Özlü
A lyrical autofictional account of the author's fight to survive depression and carve out her own path in 1950s and 60s Istanbul
Haruko/Love Poems
June Jordan
Searingly beautiful poems about compassion, resistance and desire by an iconic Black American activist and writer
The Impostor
Silvina Ocampo
Fantastical, unnerving short stories from a Surrealist master of the form
Passing
Nella Larsen
A classic of the Harlem Renaissance reissued to coincide with the major Netflix adaptation of Passing (2021)
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Hervé Guibert
The cult classic that describes with devastating, darkly comic clarity the experience of living with and dying from AIDS
Man Enough to Be a Woman
Jayne County
The true story of trans punk performance art sensation Jayne County's wild and daring life
And the Band Played On
Randy Shilts
A masterpiece of investigative reporting on the AIDS crisis in the USA
Mysteries
Knut Hamsun
Serpent's Tail Classics edition of a wild masterpiece by a Nobel prize winner championed by influential writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard and D…
Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
The bestselling, award-winning first novel by the internationally acclaimed crime writer Walter Mosley introduces his most famous character – Easy Raw…
Selected Poems
Langston Hughes
Classics edition with new introduction by Kayo Chingonyi of the essential poems of 'the poet laureate of black America' New Yorker.
Eat My Heart Out
Zoe Pilger
Zoe Pilger's wildly funny debut novel, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic
Jakob von Gunten
Robert Walser
Robert Walser's great masterpiece, reissued with a foreword by J. M. Coetzee
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
Alix Kates Shulman
The cult classic that defined a generation – over a million copies sold
Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Seven
David Peace
Volume two in David Peace's newly reissued crime masterpiece The Red Riding Quartet
Red Riding Nineteen Eighty
David Peace
Volume three in David Peace's newly reissued crime masterpiece The Red Riding Quartet