Fiction
I Give It To You
Valerie Martin
A timeless story of family, war, art, and betrayal from bestselling novelist Valerie Martin
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Hervé Guibert
The cult classic that describes with devastating, darkly comic clarity the experience of living with and dying from AIDS
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