Serpent's Tail Classics
The Impostor
Silvina Ocampo
Fantastical, unnerving short stories from a Surrealist master of the form
Passing
Nella Larsen
A classic of the Harlem Renaissance reissued to coincide with the major Netflix adaptation of Passing (2021)
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
Man Enough to Be a Woman
Jayne County
The true story of trans punk performance art sensation Jayne County's wild and daring life
And the Band Played On
Randy Shilts
A masterpiece of investigative reporting on the AIDS crisis in the USA
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…
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.
Eat My Heart Out
Zoe Pilger
Zoe Pilger's wildly funny debut novel, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic
Jakob von Gunten
Robert Walser
Robert Walser's great masterpiece, reissued with a foreword by J. M. Coetzee
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
Alix Kates Shulman
The cult classic that defined a generation – over a million copies sold
Red Riding Nineteen Eighty
David Peace
Volume three in David Peace's newly reissued crime masterpiece The Red Riding Quartet
Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three
David Peace
Volume four in David Peace's newly reissued crime masterpiece The Red Riding Quartet
Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four
David Peace
Volume one in David Peace's newly reissued crime masterpiece The Red Riding Quartet
Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Seven
David Peace
Volume two in David Peace's newly reissued crime masterpiece The Red Riding Quartet