Alex Wheatle on the World Book Night 2022 list
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New releases
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life
Paul Dalla Rosa
A story collection that perfectly captures life in the internet age
The Cherry Robbers
Sarai Walker
'First they get married, then they get buried' … you can run from a family curse, but you can't hide forever
The Homes
J.B. Mylet
Based on the true story of a childhood growing up in a home for abandoned and unwanted children, The Homes is a beautiful and haunting thriller.
The War for Gloria
Atticus Lish
From one of America's finest writers: a dramatic and heartbreaking novel about a mother and son's relationship threatened by illness and a f…
Sunken City
Marta Barone
A young woman retraces the footsteps of her elusive father through one of the darkest periods of Italian history
Begars Abbey
V.L. Valentine
From the author of The Plague Letters comes a gothic tale of hauntings, family secrets and dark deeds.
Witness
Alex Wheatle
A Quick Read from a star of Black British fiction, as portrayed recently on Steve McQueen's BBC drama, Small Axe
We Move
Gurnaik Johal
A debut brimful of the music and movement of multicultural London, to stand besides White Teeth, Brick Lane and The Buddha of Suburbia
The Geometer Lobachevsky
Adrian Duncan
An inventive and original Irish writer arrives at the Tuskar Rock list on a wave of prize listings and critical prestige
BOOTH: From the million copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
A major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Sundial
Catriona Ward
The new modern gothic masterpiece from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Last House on Needless Street. Perfect for readers of Push and…
Nasty Little Cuts
Tina Baker
This outstanding psychological thriller explores how love can be poisoned by secrets and silence, and a seemingly perfect marriage becomes rotten to t…
Mona
Pola Oloixarac
The brilliant and provocative UK debut of a Latin American star of world literature
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
The Memory Monster
Yishai Sarid
A controversial masterpiece, grappling with how generations born after the Holocaust can preserve memory without it becoming a commodity
The Burning Boy
Nicola White
The much-anticipated sequel to the award-winning novel The Rosary Garden, set in 1980s Dublin
In the Seeing Hands of Others
Nat Ogle
Original and provocative fiction telling the story of a contentious trial, pieced together in documents from the accused and accuser.
I Came All This Way to Meet You
Jami Attenberg
A fierce, and funny memoir of how the New York Times-bestselling author embraced her creativity – and how it saved her
Harrow
Joy Williams
A fresh, powerful story of surviving ecological disaster and solidarity between the generations by a giant of American literature
Featured authors
Bestsellers and Classics
The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward
Immersive, gripping, and delivering twist after twist: this is the must-read gothic thriller of 2021. It's so good you'll read it twice…
The Appeal
Janice Hallett
Described by The Sunday Times as 'A modern Christie', this is an extraordinarily inventive crime debut in which the reader is challenged to…
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit
In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman
Revolution in a minor key: how young black women invented freedom
Eat Up
Ruby Tandoh
Ruby Tandoh's radical manifesto takes the guilt out of eating and puts the pleasure back in.
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…
I Love Dick
Chris Kraus
The cult novel – now a major TV series by Jill Soloway, the creator of TRANSPARENT, starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn
Seiobo There Below
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
One of László Krasznahorkai's finest novels available in stunning redesigned paperback
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
You can't choose your family, but they make choices for you.
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 Do…
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
GYMBOREE PRIMA BALLERINA PURPLE BALLERINA SLIPPERS TIGHTS 6 12 2
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
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
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…
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…
Chelsea Girls
Eileen Myles
A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from the 'rock star of modern poetry'
The Passport
Herta Muller
A beautiful, haunting novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature