World Literature
Stabat Mater
Tiziano Scarpa
In early eighteenth-century Venice an orphan girl discovers life and independence in the music of Vivaldi
Memoirs Of A Porcupine
Alain Mabanckou
Outlandish, surreal and enjoyable, Mabanckou brings his unique sense of humour to magic realism
Whatever
Michel Houellebecq
'The mischief-making enfant terrible of new-wave French fiction' Independent
Happiness
Denis Robert
Robert's book is aptly a brief, intense experience that can be read in the time it takes for an afternoon liaison
Beer in the Snooker Club
Waguih Ghali
Known and loved by readers and writers since first publication, now back in print as a Serpent's Tail Classic
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek's most famous novel is an explicit, shocking exploration of sex and fantasy
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
Tattoo
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Pepe Carvalho is a phlegmatic investigator. His greatest concern is with his stomach, but when not pursuing delicacies, he can unravel the most tangle…
The Man of My Life
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Pepe Carvalho returns to his beloved Barcelona for more fine dining, death and desire
The Shipyard
Juan Carlos Onetti
The Graham Greene of Uruguay… foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus
The Buenos Aires Quintet
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Montalban is a writer who is caustic about the powerful and tender towards the oppressed
The Last Flight of the Flamingo
Mia Couto
?To read Mia Couto is to encounter a peculiarly African sensibility, a writer of fluid, fragmentary narratives? New Statesman ?Mia Couto is a white ma…
Marks of Identity
Juan Goytisolo
A masterpiece which should whet the appetites of British readers for the rest of the trilogy
The Angst-Ridden Executive
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
I cannot wait for other Pepe Carvalho titles to be published here