Serpent's Tail
Lighting up our readers' minds and opening spaces for them to think differently. Bringing you brilliant, award-winning new and classic fiction and non-fiction.
- 'A revelation - the kind of novel to read in one sitting' Liz Moore, bestselling author of The God of the Woods. #ThisIsALoveStory by Jessica Soffer is out next week in paperback 💚 Pre-order your copy here: tinyurl.com/bdhnnbff
- Larissa Pham's debut novel #Discipline is out today! Taut and provocative, the novel follows Christine, a writer touring her debut novel – a fictionalised account of an affair with her professor. When he gets in touch she's drawn back into his orbit. serpentstail.com/work/discipl...
- 'Combines deep philosophical inquiry with thriller vibes' #Discipline by Larissa Pham reviewed in The Crack Magazine. Pham's taut and provocative debut novel is out tomorrow 💚 www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editori...
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- 'I, for one, could listen to Bordas's characters talking and thinking all day. One Sun Only is a truly effortless collection' A stunning @irishtimes.com review for Camille Bordas' #OneSunOnly, out now 🍳
- Join beloved comedian Robert Newman at the Sevenoaks Bookshop where he'll be discussing his upcoming novel #Intelligence. An irresistible novel about love, secrets and espionage, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/author-tal... @sevenoaksbookshop.bsky.social
- 'One of the best new collections I've read in a long time' TELEGRAPH 5-STAR REVIEW ☀️ Don't miss Camille Bordas' fresh, witty and poignant short story collection #OneSunOnly, publishing today: tinyurl.com/OneSunOnly
- 'Admirable' A brilliant @lrb.co.uk review for Gurnaik Johal's debut novel #Saraswati 🌊
- The #NightSwimmers audiobook publishes today 🐚 💙 An unconventional and moving family story, for fans of Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge or Annie Proulx's The Shipping News on the edge on the Irish Sea. 'Heaven' Katherine May 'A glowing novel' Irish Times www.audible.co.uk/pd/Night-Swi...
- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'One of the best new collections I’ve read in a long time' A stellar review for Camille Bordas' #OneSunOnly, publishing new week 🍳
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- #TheEndOfEverything by M. John Harrison is included in the New Statesman's list of fiction to look forward to in 2026. A slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding, out this June 🌊 www.newstatesman.com/culture/cult...
- #TheEndOfEverything by M John Harrison is one of the Guardian's books to look out for in 2026, described as an 'unsettling destabilisation of our contemporary moment'. This slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure is out in June. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
- 'Whether you're a long-time lover of short stories or new to the form, you're sure to find something to love here' #OneSunOnly by Camille Bordas is a best January read in the Daily Express 🍳
- Go all in. We're supporting 2026 as The National Year of Reading! 📚 Find out more here: goallin.org.uk
- We're logging off now for our winter break! We hope you have a wonderful festive holiday and we'll be back in the new year ✨
- 'Awkward, sad, bizarre and genuinely funny' #Eurotrash by Christian Kracht is a Time Out best book of 2025 ✨
- Give the gift of a book this Christmas – #AllConsuming by Ruby Tandoh and #Eurotrash by Christian Kracht are on @gqmagazine.bsky.social's list of books to give to people you actually like this festive season 📚🎁✨
- 'A discourse on the vagaries of writing: obstacles, setbacks, successes, tricks of the trade' #Service by John Tottenham has been picked by Nancy Lemann as a book of the year for the Paris Review! An irreverent novel about life in an LA bookshop, out now. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
- #WeAreAllCompletelyBesideOurselves by Karen Joy Fowler is one Service95's books to hide in the bathroom with this Christmas 🌲📚 'An absolute masterclass in twist writing and raises all manner of moral conundrums' www.service95.com/best-books-t...
- We are delighted to see that Denai Moore has picked #InTheDreamHouse by Carmen Maria Machado for Service95's festive literary gift lift ✨🎁 'This memoir is unlike any other: structurally inventive and untamed, beautiful writing' www.service95.com/festive-book...
- 'A sprawling, illuminating read ... Buy it for: anyone who likes their food writing with bite' #AllConsuming by Ruby Tandoh has been picked by the Observer as one of the best food books of 2025 🍽️💗
- 'It is hard for literary debuts to capture attention, but this one felt like a real arrival ... Dazzling' #Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal has made @theipaper.com's top 10 books of 2025! 🌊🧡
- 'Lively and richly peopled... a disciplined piece of writing' #Service by John Tottenham in the Literary Review. Tottenham's hilarious debut novel, about a cynical English bookseller's life in an LA bookstore, is out now. literaryreview.co.uk/late-bloomers
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- Listen to #ShapeOfAnApostrophe author Uttama Kirit Patel discuss parenthood, domestic workers and mother-in-laws in the latest episode of the podcast A Pair of Bookends 📚🎧
- 'Amazing writing and a perfect mix of sensibility and brilliance' – Early Reader Review Camille Bordas' beautiful collection of witty, self-aware short stories is now available to request on NetGalley 🍳 Tuck in here: tinyurl.com/OneSunOnlyNG
- 'Gurnaik Johal followed up excellent short stories with Saraswati, a sweepingly ambitious tale of family history and contemporary politics in a changing India' #Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal is a @theguardian.com best fiction book of 2025 🌊
- So great to see booksellers at BookBar and Bookbag pick #Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal and #AllConsuming by Ruby Tandoh for @thenerve.news' Best Books of 2025 📚✨ www.thenerve.news/p/books-of-2...
- A biting new collection of stories featuring misfits across time and space from award-winning visionary Joy Williams. #ThePelicanChild is out today! tinyurl.com/22dc7seh
- Brilliant to see #TheFerrymanAndHisWife by Frode Grytten included in @guardian's 'Best recent translated fiction' roundup! View the full article here: tinyurl.com/3ck9ef9j
- 'With Williams previously named “one of the best living writers of the short story” by the New Yorker, this isn’t one to miss' #ThePelicanChild, Pulitzer Prize winner Joy Williams's latest collection, chosen by the Daily Express as a top pick this month. www.express.co.uk/entertainmen...
- 'This author proves himself a major new storyteller' Gurnaik Johal's debut #Saraswati is a best novel of the year in @theipaper.com 🌊📚
- Brilliant to see Ruby Tandoh's #AllConsuming included in @nytimes.com's '100 Notable Books of 2025'! 'Tandoh — the baking star turned firebrand food philosopher — examines our decadent, crispy, sticky, turmeric-dusted, thirst-trap recipe economy' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
- We've teamed up with @viperbooks.bsky.social to share our top picks for Christmas this year. Whether for yourself or a loved one, give the gift of a great book this Christmas ✨🎁🎄 serpentstail.com/2025/11/24/s...
- 'A novel of caustic comedy about life in a bookshop' Read John Self's Telegraph review of #Service by John Tottenham, which is out now 📚 www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...
- We're thrilled that #Lush by Rochelle Dowden-Lord has been shortlisted for the 2025 Debut Fiction Nero Book Awards! 🍷 nerobookawards.com/2025-shortli...
- Still a bookseller in his late forties, Sean knows that the worst thing about a bookshop is the customers... #Service is John Tottenham's debut novel, following a cynical English bookseller in LA - irascible and witty, Service is out now. serpentstail.com/work/service/
- #StagDance by @torreypeters.bsky.social is an Audible Best of the Year 2025 💗🦌 Listen here: tinyurl.com/StagDanceAudiobook
- 'Highly accomplished, deeply satisfying… For fans of the classic television sitcom Black Books, Service will come as welcome news' John Tottenham's debut novel #Service gets a glowing review in the TLS, out in bookshops now 📚 www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
- We're over the moon that Christian Kracht's cult translated hit #Eurotrash is a Times #1 bestseller! Get your copy from @waterstones.bsky.social here: tinyurl.com/EurotrashWSP...
- 'Superb debut' #Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal is a Telegraph best book of 2025 📚✨
- Biting, hilarious and self-aware, John Tottenham's debut novel is a razor-sharp dissection of gentrification, friendship, jealousy and the role of literature in a digital age. #Service by John Tottenham is out now. serpentstail.com/work/service/
- Join Christian Kracht at Waterstones Edinburgh this coming Monday as he discusses his @waterstones.bsky.social Fiction Book of the Month #Eurotrash. Details below! 📍 Waterstones Edinburgh West End 📅 Mon 17th Nov 🕖 7pm 🎟️ tinyurl.com/33wwkjf2
- How would you spend your last day? And whom would you spend it with? #TheFerrymanAndHisWife by Frode Grytten is out now! Order your copy here: serpentstail.com/work/the-fer...
- 'What's this book about? Do you have gluten-free bagels? Do you work here? Do you have a restroom? Do I buy books or rent books or what?' #Service, John Tottenham's debut novel, follows the antics of a cynical English bookseller in LA, out now. serpentstail.com/work/service/
- Join Christian Kracht at Waterstones Edinburgh West End to discuss #Eurotrash, @waterstones.bsky.social's Fiction Book of the Month for November 💶 Details below! 📍 Waterstones Edinburgh West End 📅 Monday 17th Nov 🕖 7pm 🎟️ tinyurl.com/53wzddd2
- Life at a bookstore in LA through the eyes of a cynical English bookseller - irascible and witty, #Service by John Tottenham is out today! 'Tottenham writes with a rare comic intensity' Colm Tóibín 'My favourite nihilistic romantic' Rachel Kushner serpentstail.com/work/service/
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- 'Beautifully written and thought-provoking, this stayed with me for a long time' A lovely review of #TheFerrymanAndHisWife by Frode Grytten in the @dailymail.co.uk last week! Read the full review here: tinyurl.com/mr29cyyt
- We are over the moon that #Eurotrash by Christian Kracht is @waterstones.bsky.social's Fiction Book of the Month for November! Don't miss this darkly comic road trip adventure across Switzerland from one of Europe's most acclaimed writers. Get your copy here: tinyurl.com/EurotrashWaterstones
- Strap yourself in for a road trip novel like no other... Christian Kracht's cult translated hit #Eurotrash (translator: Daniel Bowles) publishes in a new paperback edition today. Get your copy now: tinyurl.com/EurotrashWaterstones
- #AllConsuming by Ruby Tandoh has been selected by Waterstones as a best food & drink book of 2025 🍽️ Are our appetites really our own? In her latest Sunday Times bestseller, star food writer Ruby Tandoh skewers modern appetites with her sharp prose. www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
- #Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal has been selected by Waterstones as a best fiction book of 2025 🌊 A holy river returns, seven lives change course. Saraswati is a masterpiece debut novel from one of the UK's most exciting young writers. www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
