הוצאת SERPENT'S TAIL
הספרים של הוצאת SERPENT'S TAIL
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As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos knows all the tricks of the electronics business. Blow-out sales and shady deals were his life. When one of the stockboys disappears, it's not news: just another metalhead who went off chasing some dream of big money and easy living. But t...
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Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that i...
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"Illuminating about the inner emotional damage that leads to wildly self-destructive behaviour; unputdownable."-Evening Standard "Insightful. . . . Cleaning Up is timely."-Guardian "Depicts with bravery and a blazingly defiant wit an ongoing struggle."-Metro |
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The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money - dancing the hours away for cash. But the underside of that craze was filled with a competition and violence unknown t...
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First published in 1950, this is a brilliant novel by one of the greats of Latin American literature “Onetti's novels ar ethe corner stones of our modernity.”—Carlos Fuentes “The Graham Greene of Uruguay...foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus.”—... |
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Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 2008 "Delightful . . . gently, deceptively provocative."-The Observer "Full of depth and allusion . . . wonderfully absurd humour."-The Independent on Sunday Inspired by Thomas Mann's The Magic... |
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"It's an astonishing sight, I must say: the Ethiopian, Abebe Bikila, is racing barefoot."-BBC Radio Olympic commentary, Rome, 1960 Abebe Bikila was the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal. He won the marathon running barefoot in Rome in 1960 and won again wearing shoes in ... |
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“Everything about I Was Dora Suarez shrieks of the joy and pain of going too far.”—The New York Times "For those who want some ... |
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A man's corpse is discovered in a London warehouse, bundled into five shopping bags. Our nameless narrator from the Unexplained Deaths division of the Met is put on the case. As he probes a world of horror in South London, a terrible secret from his own past emerges, and he uncovers much more tha... |
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London in the aftermath of World War II is a beaten down, hungry place, so it's no wonder that Regine Milner's Sunday house parties are so popular. But when one of Regine's party guests turns up dead, there is no shortage of suspects. War Damage is full of secrets, sexual experimenta... |
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From the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature! “[The Passport] has the same clipped prose cadences as Nadirs, this time applied to evoke the trapped mentality of a man so desperate for freedom... |
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Wayne/Jayne County's weird fierce autobiography ...
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“[Christopher] Fowler repeatedly challenges the reader to redraw the boundaries between innocence and malevolence, rationality and paranoia. His strength lies in the way he unveils the darker side of the ordinary.”—Guardian A geologist trapped in a town without water is lur... |
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"I loved this book. It's a private ticket into a secret world of desire and sex and the raw edge between them . . . I read it with the fever of the addicted."-Michael Connelly "I never miss a book by Vicki Hendricks. No one on the current scene is writing super-charged, erotic, real no... |
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This work celebrates jazz with passion and conviction, evoking a revolutionary era that inspired generations of music. Tracing the roots of "new jazz" from 1960-1972 Wilmer dissects the musical careers of the famous names - John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Albert Ayler et al - and the less well-known art...
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Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing "It's Bukowski's Pulp gone West Country."-Uncut "Takes the classic elements of noir . . . and pushes the genre to its limits."-Welsh Literature Abroad Meet Robert Llewellyn, the ... |
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“A shocker of a first novel . . . told with extraordinary restraint.”—The New York Times “[Jonathan] Trigell masterfully builds sympathy for Jack.”—Entertainment Weekly “A modern-day immorality tale about the attempted rehabilitation of a child impl... |
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