New releases
The Plague Letters
V.L. Valentine
A serial killer stalks London during the Great Plague of 1665 in this highly inventive historical thriller
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…
Under the Blue
Oana Aristide
A lead debut novel: a literary thriller about a pandemic, the rise of AI, and how – or why – we might save the human race.
The Disconnect
Roisin Kiberd
A brilliant new voice on tech and life: this debut essay collection announces a startling talent
Call Me Mummy
Tina Baker
An emotionally charged psychological thriller that takes the abducted-child plotline to a whole new level. The must-read thriller for 2021.
Paradise Block
Alice Ash
An irresistibly strange debut short story collection set in a crumbling tower block
The Rosary Garden
Nicola White
Inspired by the heartbreaking true case of the Kerry babies, Nicola White's award-winning sequel to A Famished Heart explores the battle between s…
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 Do…
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 so…
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit
Satantango
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back – and more devilish than ever.
Peace
Garry Disher
In the hotly anticipated sequel to Bitter Wash Road, Hirsch returns to investigate a brutal family slaying in Australia's rural outback
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.
Essex Girls
Sarah Perry
A defence and celebration of the Essex Girl by the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent
A Ruined Girl
Kate Simants
Winner of the Bath Novel Award, this is an immersive and heartrending thriller, set in the world of the foster system and forgotten children
I Give It To You
Valerie Martin
A timeless story of family, war, art, and betrayal from bestselling novelist Valerie Martin
Act of Grace
Anna Krien
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2020An exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games
The Resident
David Jackson
From the bestselling author of Cry Baby comes a brand new thriller that will keep you up at night: a serial killer on the run hides out in the shared…
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Serpent's Tail Classics
Man Enough to Be a Woman
Jayne County
The true story of trans punk performance art sensation Jayne County's wild and daring life
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 Do…
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
As Serious As Your Life
Val Wilmer
An essential masterpiece of jazz history by renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams
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 Bl…
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…
Chelsea Girls
Eileen Myles
A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from the 'rock star of modern poetry'
The Passport
Herta Muller
A beautiful, haunting novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Jernigan
David Gates
Jernigan is the great lost American masterpiece of suburban despair, a modern Revolutionary Road or Stoner
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
Award-winning classic novel of prejudice, community and what it means to be a man in the American South. New edition with an introduction by Attica Lo…
The Seven Madmen
Roberto Arlt
An extraordinary portrait of 1920s Buenos Aires, with the existential angst of Sartre's Nausea, the spiritual drama of Dostoyevsky's The Broth…