Fiction
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
You can't choose your family, but they make choices for you.
The Death of Comrade President
Alain Mabanckou
A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists
The House on Fripp Island
Rebecca Kauffman
A taut, page-turning novel of secrets and strife. When two families-one rich, one not-vacation together off the coast of South Carolina, little do the…
Hollow in the Land
James Clarke
Welcome to the Hollow in the Land: from its neglected high streets to the isolated wilderness of the surrounding moors, this Lancashire valley bursts…
Rabbits for Food
Binnie Kirshenbaum
A devastating, darkly comic story of a woman's slide into depression and institutionalisation from a master of razor-edged literary humour.
All This Could Be Yours
Jami Attenberg
An unforgettable novel of family secrets from New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins
Topics of Conversation
Miranda Popkey
A major debut by a remarkable new writer, for readers of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk and Olivia Laing
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…
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Lola Shoneyin
A modern classic – Lola Shoneyin's debut novel is a portrait of a clamorous household in the midst of upheaval
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.
A Lucky Man
Jamel Brinkley
Uncovering the inner lives of black men and boys, an expansive fiction debut from a major new voice
Eat My Heart Out
Zoe Pilger
Zoe Pilger's wildly funny debut novel, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic
The Warlow Experiment
Alix Nathan
What kind of person keeps a man underground for seven years?And who would agree to be part of such an experiment?
Heaven, My Home
Attica Locke
The hotly-anticipated sequel to the CWA Dagger-winning Bluebird Bluebird
The Pine Islands
Marion Poschmann
Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2019 – a charming, playful, profound tale of lost souls in search of transformation in modern Japan
Night Theatre
Vikram Paralkar
A powerful fable about a surgeon negotiating the fine line between life and death