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Our authors are as diverse as our books – as well as publishing winners of the Orange Prize for Fiction (Lionel Shriver); the Nobel Prize for Literature (Elfriede Jelinek, Kenzaburo Oe); the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (Jonathan Trigell), we also publish debut novelists, voices in translation, outsider fiction and non-fiction writers.
Walter Mosley, Neil Bartlett, David Toop, Derek Raymond, Stella Duffy, David Goodis – just a few of the stellar names who consider themselves Serpent’s Tail authors.
Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her work – over a dozen novels and novellas – has inspired a generation of writers and artists. She died in 1997.... read more
Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado was born in northeastern Brazil in 1912. His early masterpiece is The Violent Land. A political exile in the 1940s, he lived for many years in Prague and Paris. The success of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands brought Jorge Amado an international audience and translation into forty-six languages with more than 8,000,000 copies of his books... read more
Reinaldo Arenas
Reinaldo Arenas was born in Holguín, Cuba, in 1943. His first novel, Singing from the Well, was awarded First Mention in Cuba’s Cirilo Villaverde National Competition. It was to be his only book published in his native country. Both as a homosexual and a writer, he found himself persecuted by the Cuban government, and had to smuggle his work out... read more
Lester Bangs
Lester Bangs started out as a record reviewer for Rolling Stone, went on to write for and then edit the magazine Creem, before moving to New York and covering the burgeoning punk scene, writing in daily newspapers and the Village Voice. Bangs died suddenly at the age of 33 in 1982. A biography of Lester Bangs, Let it Blurt was published in 2001... read more
Anna Banti
Anna Banti was born in Florence in 1895 and graduated from the University of Rome. She directed the literary section of the magazine Paragone and, after the death of her husband, the famous art critic Roberto Longhi, also the art section. She wrote Artemisia at the age of fifty-two and went on to produce a great deal of work on art and criticism af... read more
Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett is an acclaimed theatre director and writer. SKIN LANE is his third novel. read more
Heidi W. Boehringer
Heidi W. Boehringer is an American writer. read more
Joe Boyd
Record and film producer Joe Boyd was born in Boston in 1942 and graduated from Harvard in 1964. He went on to produce Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, REM and many others. He produced the documentary ‘Jimi Hendrix’ and the film ‘Scandal’. In 1980 he started Hannibal Records and ran it for 20 years. Boyd lives in London where he... read more
Jimmy Boyle
Jimmy Boyle was born in 1944 and raised in Glasgow’s notorious Gorbals area. His early years were spent in the grip of the Gorbals’ culture and he embarked on a life of crime, eventually being sentenced to life in prison at the age of twenty-three for a murder he did not commit. The brutality of the prison regime is graphically described in his... read more
William Burroughs
William S Burroughs is the grand-daddy of all cult writers. He is the author of Naked Lunch, Junky and many other novels. Short stories appear in High Risk 1 and The Junky's Christmas, both published by Serpent's Tail. He died in 1998. Ghost of Chance was first published by Serpent’s Tail in hardback in 1997.
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Ron Butlin
Acclaimed Scottish author Ron Butlin is best known for the classic The Sound of My Voice. read more
Aifric Campbell
Aifric Campbell is an Irish novelist, now living in Sussex, England. read more
Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter and director. Carrère studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion and the direction of reality. Several of his ... read more
Garth Cartwright
Garth Cartwright was born in New Zealand. He left school at 16, tried his hand at professional skateboarding, singing in punk bands, promoting concerts and even had a brief sojourn as a boxer, before turning to writing full time. In 1995 he won the Guardian Music Writing Award. He has written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Independent On Sunday, The ... read more
Mehdi Charef
Mehdi Charef was born in Algeria in 1952. He moved to Paris with his family in 1964 and worked in an engineering factory in the suburbs after leaving school. Tea in the Harem was originally published in 1983 and was made into an award-winning film directed by the author. ... read more
James E. Cherry
James E. Cherry is a southern-born black man. He experienced a spiritual, mental and cultural awakening in his mid-twenties, which inspired him to become a writer. Shadow of Light is his first novel. read more
Matthew Collin
Matthew Collin has worked as a magazine editor, a foreign correspondent, a broadcast journalist and a features writer. He has been the editor of the Big Issue, the Time Out website and i-D magazine, and now works as a journalist, based in Georgia. He has also written for a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Daily Teleg... read more
Mark Curtis
Mark Curtis is an acclaimed author and journalist: his previous books include Web of Deceit and Unpeople. read more
Didier Daeninckx
Born in 1949, Didier Daeninckx lives in Paris. Recognised as France’s leading left-wing mystery writer, his work is translated into all European languages. His 1984 novel Murder in Memoriam forced the French government to try Nazi collaborators, led to a life of imprisonment for Paul Touvier and made President Mitterrand declare 16 July a day of... read more
Ulrika Dahl
Ulrika Dahl is a femme-inist writer, activist and cultural anthropologist. She teaches Gender Studies at Södertörn University College in Stockholm, Sweden. ... read more
Daniel Davies
The Isle of Dogs is Daniel Davies’ acclaimed debut novel. read more
Erik Davis
Erik Davis’s work has appeared in Wired, The Village Voice andGnosis, and he has lectured internationally on techno-culture and the fringes of religion. ... read more
Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes is best known as the author and co-director of Baise-Moi read more
Fatou Diome
Born in 1968 in Niodior, Senegal, Fatou Diome moved to Strasbourg in 1994. She has taught at Strasbourg University and currently presents a cultural programme on the televison station FR3. She is the author of a collection of short stories called La Preference Nationale. The Belly of the Atlantic is her first novel.
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Stella Duffy
Stella was born in South London, grew up in New Zealand, and has lived in the UK since 1986. She is the author of a series of crime novels featuring the detective Saz Martin. read more
Max Décharné
Max Décharné is a writer and musician. read more
Najat El Hachmi
Najat El Hachmi was born in Morocco in 1979. At the age of eight, she emigrated to Catalonia, Spain with her family. Her novel The Last Patriarch won the prestigious Ramon Llull Prize in 2008 and the Prix Ulysse in 2009. She has published one other book, an autobiographical work called I Too Am Catalan.... read more
Banning Eyre
Professional guitar player and international music journalist for the Boston Phoenix and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Banning Eyre contributes regularly to Billboard, Ms, Rhythm, the Beat, and New Music Monthly. He has travelled extensively in Africa and has produced many programs for the public radio series Afropop Worlwide. In... read more
Antwone Fisher
Antwone Quenton Fisher is a leading Hollywood screenwriter. In 1993, he was working as a security guard at Sony Pictures Entertainment when by chance he met Todd Black, a young film producer. When Antwone Fisher told Black his life story, Black was so bowled over with what he heard that he paid Fisher a salary to write his autobiography. The ... read more
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