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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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Matthew Collin is our man in Georgia
14 August 2008
... Or at least he was, until last week. For several years, journalist Collin has lived in Tblisi, the Georgian capital.
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We're WIRED to Pelecanos
14 August 2008
The Wire - it's something like a phenomenon. We are hooked, lined and sinkered. The TV writer Charlie Brooker deserves a knighthood for his championing of this oh-so-worthy cause.
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14 August 2008
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Bethan's BOOK AT BEDTIME
14 August 2008
THE GOOD PLAIN COOK is this week's BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime.
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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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3:AM Magazine Interviews Cathi Unsworth
16 July 2008
The ubercool online magazine 3:AM recently caught up with Cathi.
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From the photographer of THE DRAG KING BOOK comes FEMMES OF POWER
27 June 2008
Del LaGrace Volcano is the acclaimed photographer behind THE DRAG KING BOOK - photos from which featured in, and were the inspiration for, an episode in Sex and the City.
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Serpent's Tail offer GOOD READS
27 June 2008
The great BBC Radio 4 show A GOOD READ has selected two Serpent's Tail titles as featured books for July.
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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
Also at Edinburgh Book Festival, Robert Lewis and Ron Butlin
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Ron Butlin, in his term as Makar of Edinburgh, will be appearing at lovely independent Word Power bookshop as part of the Fringe Festival. read more
BLACKWATER author in London and Edinburgh
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Jeremy Scahill's author tour hits London and Edinburgh this month.
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Get 25% off when you order books for your book club
15th February 2008
We know that we need to talk about Kevin, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. read more
New books
Nights Beneath the Nation
Evocative debut fiction set in the theatre world of 1950s Dublin. read more
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| Online Price | £9.99 |
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The Man of My Life
After a visit to Argentina, Spain’s most famous detective Pepe Carvalho is back in his beloved Barcelona and is swiftly embroiled in a murderous scandal amid the murky politics of 21st century Catal... read more
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| Online Price | £7.99 |
Nineteen Seventy Seven (1977)
If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, Nineteen Seventy Four, then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the ‘Red Riding Quartetâ€... read more
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| Online Price | £7.99 |
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Blackwater
New edition of the international bestseller, updated material deals with the Nissour square massacre. read more
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| Online Price | £8.99 |
An Olympic Death
As Barcelona prepares for the Games, the city is turned over to make way for new roads, a new stadium and the giant prawns of Mariscal. Private Investigator Pepe Carvalho – who remembers the good ol... read more
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| Online Price | £7.99 |
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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| Online Price | £10.99 |
Nineteen Eighty (1980)
Nineteen Eighty is set against an evolving backdrop of power, corruption and lies. The nightmare continues during the winter of 1980 when the Ripper murders his thirteenth victim and the whole of Yor... read more
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| Online Price | £7.99 |
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Femmes of Power
Ulrika Dahl, Del LaGrace Volcano
What is femme? French for woman? A feminine lesbian? A queer girl who loves to dress up? Think again! Going beyond identity politics and the pleasures of plumage, Femmes of Power captures a diverse ra... read more
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| Online Price | £19.99 |
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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| Online Price | £7.99 |
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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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| Online Price | £9.99 |
Nineteen Eighty Three (1983)
David Peace concludes his masterful Red Riding Quartet and once again the Ripper is the backdrop for a roller-coaster of fear and corruption.
Nineteen Eighty Three's three intertwining storyl...
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Tattoo
Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-marxist and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona, when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of identifyi... read more
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The Isle of Dogs
Anytown, England. Jeremy Shepherd has reached post-ambition, giving up the trappings of his London life (flash job, flash cars, even flashier girlfriends) and moved back to his home town and his paren... read more
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| Online Price | £9.99 |