SERPENT'S TAIL AUDIO
From risk-taking literature to risky thrillers, and from powerful memoir to award-winning novels, we are proud to offer a range of Serpent’s Tail and its imprints’ publishing for listeners everywhere. Available on all good audiobook platforms.
Out of The Sun
Esi Edugyan
Two-time Booker Shortlistee and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers a searing analysis of the relationship between race and art
BOOTH
Karen Joy Fowler
A major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Before the Ruins
Victoria Gosling
One long, hot summer Andy and her friends begin a game that will take their whole lives to play out.
Essex Girls
Sarah Perry
A defence and celebration of the Essex Girl by the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent
Witness
Alex Wheatle
A Quick Read from a star of Black British fiction, as portrayed recently on Steve McQueen's BBC drama, Small Axe
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit
This is Pleasure
Mary Gaitskill
A masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate, set to be the most fiercely debated book of the season
Lose Your Mother
Saidiya Hartman
A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
You can't choose your family, but they make choices for you.
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman
Revolution in a minor key: how young black women invented freedom
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
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
Open Up
Alex Holder
A manifesto for talking about money, covering everything from jobs, shame and friends to payrises and unaffordable hen-dos
That Old Black Magic
Cathi Unsworth
A Cathi Unsworth special: murder, magic and mayhem in wartime England
The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry
The literary sensation and Waterstones Book of the Year: a thrilling and unforgettable historical novel of love and intrigue now out in paperback