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Pawel Huelle's CASTORP longlisted for the IMPAC award
14 November 2008
The acclaimed Polish author Pawel Huelle has been longlisted for the IMPAC award, for his novel based on Hans Castorp from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.
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3 Titles on SPREAD THE WORD Prize longlist - vote now
14 November 2008
The only prize in the UK decided by online votes was won last year by Jonathan Trigell's BOY A.
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David Peace's Red Riding books to be a major Channel 4 Film Series in Spring 2009
13 October 2008
Commissioned by Channel 4, Revolution Films are producing three feature films based on the Red Riding Quartet, to be premiered at the Berlin Film Festival before a UK premiere on Channel 4 in Spring 2009, with a theatrical release likely to follow.
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Serpent's Tail to publish Catherine Millet's book on jealousy in 2009
8 October 2008
The controversial author of THE SEXUAL LIFE OF CATHERINE M will return in 2009 with a major new book on the subject of jealousy.
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CHAM is shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize
8 October 2008
The world's premiere prize for mountain literature has included Jonathan Trigell's CHAM in its 2008 shortlist.
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PSST... Hot Gossip on the RED RIDING QUARTET
14 August 2008
Let's just say... TV... Cinema... Spring 2009... Star-studded... A Who's Who of British acting talent.
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Join the Friends of Serpent's Tail on FACEBOOK
14 August 2008
Yes, it's happened. We're on there.
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Serpent's Tail publisher PETE AYRTON is honoured by the French Government
17 July 2008
Pete has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contribution to French culture.
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Download a BOY A guide for reading groups here today
24 April 2008
It's a book that refuses to leave you once you've started it, and one of the few that deserves that much bandied about term - unputdownable.
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Events
Joe Boyd talks WHITE BICYCLES in Huddersfield
10 December 2008
Wall of Sound Record Store is a fitting location to talk music and memories - and so, Joe Boyd, svengali producer and autobiographer will be taking over the mic in a special pre-Christmas event.
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Jonathan Trigell at Kendal Mountain Festival
21 November 2008 - 22 November 2008
Keeping busy is Jonathan Trigell, who'll be appearing during the weekend of the Kendal Mountain Festival.
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Jonathan Trigell at the Crossing Border Festival in The Hague
20 November 2008
The very hip Crossing Border Festival of music and literature features Jonathan Trigell on the line-up this year.
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Jonathan Trigell event in Paris
This event has now taken place
The author of BOY A and CHAM will appear at a special event at the wonderful Shakespeare & Company in Paris.
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Denis Kehoe at the OUTBURST Queer Arts Festival, Belfast
This event has now taken place
Debut novelist Denis Kehoe will be reading from Nights Beneath the Nation.
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Hot Deals/Free Stuff
Pawel Huelle's CASTORP longlisted for the IMPAC award
14 November 2008
The acclaimed Polish author Pawel Huelle has been longlisted for the IMPAC award, for his novel based on Hans Castorp from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. read more
3 for 2 all books - until 15th December
14 October 2008
Yes indeed, we're running a site exclusive 3 for 2 offer on all Serpent's Tail books.
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New books
Goodbye Mr Socialism
Leading Marxist thinker Negri is not afraid to ask the difficult questions of the post-Communist age: What should a new left agenda consist of? Where does globalization fit? How does the left make a v... read more
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Now You See Him
Nick Framingham is still reeling from the recent death of his childhood best friend, the writer Rob Castor, who committed suicide after killing his ex-girlfriend in Manhattan. Rob’s death unleashes ... read more
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Nights Beneath the Nation
Evocative debut fiction set in the theatre world of 1950s Dublin. read more
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A Brief Life
Written in 1950, A Brief Life is the first novel to feature Onetti’s mythical town of Santa María. His protagonist Brausen eavesdrops on the conversation of his neighbours, a husband and wife, imag... read more
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Greed
Kurt Janisch is an ambitious, but frustrated country policeman. Things are not going right in his life – at least not fast enough. But a country policeman gets talking to a lot of people in the line... read more
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Banjo
Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known to his drifter cohorts on the 1920s Marseille waterfront as ‘Banjo’, passes his days panhandling and dreaming of starting his own little band. At night Banjo, Malty, ... read more
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Nineteen Seventy Four (1974)
Christmas bombs and Lord Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum.
It’s winter ,1974, Yorkshire, and Eddie Dunford’s got the job h...
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The Good Plain Cook
It’s summer 1936, and the world is on the cusp of change, but there’s little sign of this in rural Sussex. So when local girl Kitty Allen answers an advert looking for ‘a good plain cook’, she... read more
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The Last Supper
Set in Gdansk, the story centres on a single day in the near future, when twelve men have been invited by their mutual friend, an artist, to model at a photographic session for a modern version of The... read more
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Nick Stefanos, having earned his P.I. license, quickly discovers that snapping photos of unfaithful husbands does not make for a fulfilling job. Tending bar one night at the Spot, Nick is visited by h... read more
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