Serpent's Tail Classics
As Serious As Your Life
Val Wilmer
An essential masterpiece of jazz history by renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams
White Bicycles
Joe Boyd
How was one man present at so many pivotal points of the birth of modern rock? Joe Boyd's classic memoir of the 60s music scene reissued as a Serp…
African Psycho
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou's uproarious, fleet-footed English-language debut, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic to coincide with the publication of…
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek's most famous novel is an explicit, shocking exploration of sex and fantasy
Chelsea Girls
Eileen Myles
A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from the 'rock star of modern poetry'
If He Hollers Let Him Go
Chester Himes
Acclaimed expose of racism in mid-twentieth century USA, now a Serpent's Tail Classic
The Passport
Herta Muller
A beautiful, haunting novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Jernigan
David Gates
Jernigan is the great lost American masterpiece of suburban despair, a modern Revolutionary Road or Stoner
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
Award-winning classic novel of prejudice, community and what it means to be a man in the American South. New edition with an introduction by Attica Lo…
The Seven Madmen
Roberto Arlt
An extraordinary portrait of 1920s Buenos Aires, with the existential angst of Sartre's Nausea, the spiritual drama of Dostoyevsky's The Broth…
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
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.
Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo
A legendary classic of magic realism and the most important Mexican novel ever written – with a new foreword by Gabriel García Márquez
Her Privates We
Frederic Manning
A new edition of a classic First World War novel, a brilliant and bitter picture of human conflict.
The Walk
Robert Walser
One of the great works of European short fiction, by turns funny, reflective and profound