Biography & Memoir
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
Different Every Time
Marcus O’Dair
The first and definitive biography of Robert Wyatt, Britain's greatest cult musician, with an introduction by Jonathan Coe
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.
Compartment No 6
Rosa Liksom
From the winner of the Finlandia Prize – two unlikely souls meet and spark on a journey across the Russian night.
Love Game
Elizabeth Wilson
The only comprehensive narrative history of the world's most international sport, from Victorian lawn tennis to Andy Murray's Wimbledon 2013…
The Death of the Poet
N Quentin Woolf
When you swear to love, to be faithful, or to do your duty, how does that promise bind you?