Biography & Memoir
Will You Manage?
Musa Okwonga
Acclaimed football writer Musa Okwonga investigates what it takes to be a great manager
A Rocket in My Pocket
Max Décharné
A Rocket in my Pocket is the story of rockabilly music, the primal 50s howl of rockin' rage that helped start it all.
The Gigolo Murder
Mehmet Murat Somer
The third in the Hop-Ciki-Yaya series – the only crime series featuring a Turkish transvestite detective
The Mistress Of Nothing
Kate Pullinger
Based on Lucie Duff Gordon's Letters from Egypt, this is a lushly evocative period novel.
Wake Up Dead
Roger Smith
A split-second decision with no second chance. Get it wrong and you WAKE UP DEAD
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
A prize-winning international classic, first published in English by Serpent's Tail in 1993, now with a new introduction by William Boyd
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
The Women's Prize for Fiction winning, million copy bestseller: now a Serpent's Tail classic, with a new foreword by Kate Mosse
Black Water Rising
Attica Locke
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, critically acclaimed in US and UK (fans include Ellroy, Pelecanos, John Harvey), Attica Locke's debut is now in…
War Damage
Elizabeth Wilson
'This book is as stylish as one would hope. An evocative, escapist tale of murder and secrecy in post-war London, War Damage paints a picture of…
A Very British Coup
Chris Mullin
The classic political thriller that foretold the rise of Corbyn, from the acclaimed author of A View from the Foothills
Venice is a Fish: A Cultural Guide
Tiziano Scarpa
'A gorgeous tribute to one of the strangest and most beautiful cities on Earth. Was it Henry James or Mary McCarthy who said, "There is noth…
Altered State
Matthew Collin
At last somebody has written the real history of the last ten years, and written it with such wit, verve, empathy and profound intelligence. I can…
Tell it to the Bees
Fiona Shaw
A spellbinding story of forbidden love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger
The Dirty South
Alex Wheatle
This is set to be Alex Wheatle's best year yet in a brilliant career: Steve McQueen has based an episode in his drama series SMALL AXE on Alex…
Cham
Jonathan Trigell
Jonathan Trigell's writing soars when describing the sublime mountain scenery and the rushing, redemptive exhilaration of skiing… But he's…
Barefoot Runner
Paul Rambali
Beautifully written, elegiac biography of the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal.
