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14 August 2008

News Item Image Text Let's just say... TV... Cinema... Spring 2009... Star-studded... A Who's Who of British acting talent. read more

Matthew Collin is our man in Georgia

14 August 2008

News Item Image Text ... Or at least he was, until last week. For several years, journalist Collin has lived in Tblisi, the Georgian capital. read more

We're WIRED to Pelecanos

14 August 2008

News Item Image Text 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. read more

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14 August 2008

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Bethan's BOOK AT BEDTIME

14 August 2008

News Item Image Text THE GOOD PLAIN COOK is this week's BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. read more

Serpent's Tail publisher PETE AYRTON is honoured by the French Government

17 July 2008

News Item Image Text Pete has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contribution to French culture. read more

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16 July 2008

News Item Image Text The ubercool online magazine 3:AM recently caught up with Cathi. read more

From the photographer of THE DRAG KING BOOK comes FEMMES OF POWER

27 June 2008

News Item Image Text 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. read more

Serpent's Tail offer GOOD READS

27 June 2008

News Item Image Text The great BBC Radio 4 show A GOOD READ has selected two Serpent's Tail titles as featured books for July. read more

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24 April 2008

News Item Image Text 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. read more


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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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15th February 2008

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Nights Beneath the Nation

Denis Kehoe

Evocative debut fiction set in the theatre world of 1950s Dublin. read more

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The Man of My Life

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

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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Nineteen Seventy Seven (1977)

David Peace

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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Blackwater

Jeremy Scahill

New edition of the international bestseller, updated material deals with the Nissour square massacre. read more

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An Olympic Death

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

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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The Good Plain Cook

Bethan Roberts

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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Nineteen Eighty (1980)

David Peace

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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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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Nineteen Seventy Four (1974)

David Peace

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... read more

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Now You See Him

Eli Gottlieb

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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Nineteen Eighty Three (1983)

David Peace

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... read more

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Tattoo

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

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

Daniel Davies

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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