Serpent's Tail
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Night Swimmers
$16.00 Read moreGrace lives alone in a coastal village in Northern Ireland, filling her days with wild swimming, fishing, quilting and baiting the tourists who blow in from the city.
One of the visitors is Evan, on an
- Author: Maguire, Roisin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1800816766
- Language: English
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The Underhistory
$16.00 Add to cartPeople come to visit my home and I love to show them around. Of course it’s not the original house where it happened. That was destroyed when my entire family died. But I don’t think their ghosts know… [more below]
- Author: Warren, Kaaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1800812043
- Language: English
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The Book of Disquiet
$14.95 Add to cartReaders with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable.–Publishers Weekly
Pessoa’s amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output.–William B
- Series: Serpent’s Tail Classics
- Author: Pessoa, Fernando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: January 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1846687357
- Language: English
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Her Privates We
$14.95 Add to cart“The finest and noblest book of men and war that I have ever read.”–Ernest Hemingway
“I am sure it is the book of books so far as the British Army is concerned.”–Lawrence of Arabia
“A unique and extra
- Series: Serpent’s Tail Classics
- Author: Manning, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 184668787X
- Language: English
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Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist
$14.95 Add to cartThe extraordinary life of history’s first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack
Anne Lister’s journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid- Author: Steidele, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1788160991
- Language: English
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As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977
$18.95 Read moreIn this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established bl… [more below]
- Author: Wilmer, Val
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1788160711
- Language: English
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Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors
$15.95 Read moreAppa and Amma have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off to their neighbours in Blue Hills housing colony. But their triumph is short lived. Their eldest son Sreenath is behaving strangely, … [more below]
- Author: Jayan, Aravind
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1788169875
- Language: English
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Black Bazaar
$14.95 Add to cartinalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015
Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a verticall
- Author: Mabanckou, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1846687772
- Language: English
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Bliss and Blunder
$19.95 Add to cartArthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen’s got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous husband who’s the founder of Britain’s most successful tech company, stables full of horses, millions of fol… [more below]
- Author: Gosling, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1788165012
- Language: English
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Tea in the Harem
$14.95 Add to cartA housing estate in the Paris suburbs. Madjid is growing up caught between two cultures. At home, he listens to his mother’s constant invective in Arabic as she attempts to make sense of her unfamilia
- Author: Charef, Mehdi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 1990
- ISBN10: 1852421517
- Language: English
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Whatever
$14.95 Add to cartJust thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time
- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 1846687845
- Language: English
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Women as Lovers
$17.95 Add to cartThe setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a woman’s underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and… [more below]
- Series: Masks
- Author: Jelinek, Elfriede
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: July 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1852422378
- Language: English
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
$14.95 Add to cartSordid, pathetic, senselessly exciting. . . has the immediacy and the significance of a nerve-shattering explosion.–The New Republic
The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to sur
- Series: Serpent’s Tail Classics
- Author: McCoy, Horace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 184668739X
- Language: English
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Sleepwalking Land
$16.95 Add to cartMia Couto’s first novel, judged one of the twelve best African books of the 20th century
- Author: Couto, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 185242897X
- Language: English
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The Witness
$17.95 Add to cartIn sixteenth-century Spain, a cabin boy is bound for the New World. An inland expedition ends in disaster when it is attacked by Indians, leaving the young boy, as sole survivor, to face his fate amid
- Author: Saer, Juan José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1846686911
- Language: English
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The Passport
$14.95 Add to cartFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009
The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu’s- Author: Müller, Herta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 178125527X
- Language: English
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Tell It to the Bees
$14.95 Add to cartA secret love which has a whole town talking … and a small boy very worried. Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doc… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1788164075
- Language: English
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The Belly of the Atlantic
$16.95 Add to cartA powerful debut novel from a talented young Senegalese author.
- Author: Diome, Fatou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1852429038
- Language: English
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Ocean of Sound: Ambient Sound and Radical Listening in the Age of Communication
$15.95 Add to cartDavid Toop’s extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kr… [more below]
- Author: Toop, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1788160304
- Language: English
