Biography & Memoir
The Lights of Pointe-Noire
Alain Mabanckou
A moving meditation on home, home-coming and belonging from Francophone Africa's most important writer
The Evening Chorus
Helen Humphreys
A story of four lives torn apart by war, falling in and out of love, and the unlikely moments that come to define a life – now available in paperback
The Moth
Catherine Burns
Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read.
Leonora: A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington
Elena Poniatowska
A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington, a great Surrealist painter utterly possessed by her art, Leonora is The Girl with the Pearl Earrin…
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 Bro…
Glass
Alex Christofi
Huckleberry Finn meets The Rosie Project, with added window cleaning – the Desmond Elliot Prize-listed comic debut of the year, now in paperback. Winn…
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Lester Bangs
The essential writings of the greatest music writer of the twentieth, or any, century, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic
See You in Paradise
J Robert Lennon
Unsettlingly brilliant stories by a dazzling stylist with an aberrant sense of humour
The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
Catherine Millet
The sensational erotic memoir that shocked the world, now re-issued as a Serpent's Tail Classic.
Missing
Sam Hawken
A tough, terrifying thriller depicting one man's fight to rescue two young girls from the cartels in the lawless chaos of a Mexican border town.S…
Spoiled Brats (including the story that inspired the film An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen)
Simon Rich
Growing up is hard to do, and generation Y seem to be finding it harder than ever. Meet Simon Rich's latest creations in these very funny short s…
Live At the Brixton Academy
JS Rafaeli
Sometimes you have to take a chance, and Simon Parkes is nothing if not a risk-taker. The riotous life-story of a music impresario and how he turned a…
Small Crimes
Dave Zeltserman
Now a major film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones' Jaime Lannister)
1913
Florian Illies
From James Joyce to Coco Chanel, 1913 is an irreverent but poignant portrait of Europe on the brink of war, now in paperback.
Travelling Sprinkler
Nicholson Baker
A brilliantly clever, comic novel about love in middle-age by an American master.