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Girlfriend on Mars

Deborah Willis
- Serpent'S Tail
- 6 Juillet 2023
- 9781800817579
Kevin is 30-something, happily committed to ''going nowhere'', growing illegal weed in an overpriced basement in Vancouver with his highly strung but brilliant hydroponics-expert girlfriend, Amber.

One day, seemingly out of the blue, Amber announces that she will appear on a reality show called MarsNowT. The show is a Survivor-meets-Star Trek amalgam where Amber will compete for one of two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars. If she wins, Amber will stay on Mars forever, because the technology to come home doesn''t exist yet. Is it a suicide mission or a bold new frontier for the future of humanity? It''s definitely ruining Kevin''s buzz and forcing him to confront some deeply uncomfortable truths about himself and his relationship with Amber.

Girlfriend on Mars is the story of love unravelling in the era of Instagram influencers and ''alternative facts''-a world where the so-called truth is dictated by Facebook ads, and ''reality TV'' is as scripted as any politician''s speech. It''s also a funny, satirical indictment of our pursuit of fame, wealth, growth, and entertainment during the climate crisis.
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PEDRO PARAMO

Juan Rulfo
- Serpent'S Tail
- 28 Septembre 2023
- 9781800812871
With an Introduction by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A new translation by Douglas J. Weatherford
In this stunning masterpiece of the surreal, Juan Preciado sets out on a strange quest, bound by a promise to his dying mother. Embarking down a parched and dusty road, Juan goes to seek his father, Pedro Paramo, from whom they fled many years ago.
The ruined town of Comala is alive with whispers and shadows. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of desires and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the tyranny of the Paramo family. Womaniser, overlord and murderer, Juan''s notorious father retains an eternal grip over Comala. Its barren and broken-down streets echo the voices of tormented spirits sharing the secrets of the past in an extraordinary chorus of sensory images, violent passions and unfathomable mysteries.
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Chelsea girls

Eileen Myles
- Serpent'S Tail
- 4 Août 2016
- 9781781257807
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms their life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artist's life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, laughter, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of how one young writer managed to shrug off the imposition of a rigid cultural identity. Told in Myles's audacious and singular voice made vivid and immediate by their lyrical language, Chelsea Girls weaves together memories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, their volatile adolescence, their unabashed "lesbianity," and their riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s and 80s New York.
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I love dick

Chris Kraus
- Serpent'S Tail
- 5 Mai 2016
- 9781781256480
The first hardback publication of the cult novel adored by feminists and fashionistas alike. The novel's cult following has ensureda steady undercurrent of buzz since its firstpublication twenty years ago, with high profile champions such as Lena Dunham.
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Ru

Kim Thuy
- Serpent'S Tail
- 15 Avril 2012
- 9781846685484
Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, and money. This book presents a lullaby of Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.
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Bluebird, bluebird

Attica Locke
- Serpent'S Tail
- 26 Août 2017
- 9781781258965
Highway 59 is the forgotten route that connects the backwoods towns across Texas. It's a place that time seems to have forgotten. But then, two bodies wash up outside the tiny town of Lark: a poor local white girl, and a well-to-do African-American lawyer from Chicago. The first in a blockbuster series set along Highway 59, history casts a long shadow in this high-stakes, small town thriller.
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Constellation

Adrien Bosc
- Serpent'S Tail
- 15 Novembre 2016
- 9781781255360
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EUROTRASH

Christian Kracht
- Serpent'S Tail
- 13 Septembre 2024
- 9781805223047
Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, our unnamed middle-aged narrator embarks on a highly dubious road trip through Switzerland with his terminally ill and terminally drunken mother. They try unsuccessfully to give away or squander the fortune she has amassed from investing in armament industry shares. Along the journey they bicker endlessly over the past, throw handfuls of francs into a ravine and exasperate the living daylights out of their long-suffering taxi driver. The crimes of the twentieth century are never far behind, but neither is the need for more vodka.
Eurotrash is a bitterly comic, vertiginous mirror-cabinet of familial and historical reckoning. Kracht''s novel is a narrative tour-de-force of the tenderness and spite meted out between two people who cannot escape one another.
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Washington black

Esi Edugyan
- Serpent'S Tail
- 8 Août 2018
- 9781781258972
BASED ON AN INFAMOUS 19TH CENTURY CRIMINAL CASE, WASHINGTON BLACK TELLS THE STORY OF A WORLD DESTROYED AND MADE WHOLE AGAIN, WHERE CERTAINTY SEEMS UNATTAINABLE, AND MEN MUST REMAIN STRANGERS EVEN TO THEMSELVES.
When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, nervousness and fear run high. Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave who has known no other life - is aghast to find himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist - whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him.
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Man

Kim Thuy
- Serpent'S Tail
- 15 Août 2014
- 9781846689963
Après une enfance au Vietnam, Mãn est mariée par sa mère à un restaurateur vietnamien installé au Québec. Discrète, ancrée dans ses souvenirs, elle bouleverse les clients du restaurant avec des plats simples, aux saveurs délicates. L'amitié qu'elle noue avec Julie va la conduire à se révéler à elle-même.
Par l'auteur de Ru, Grand Prix RTL-Lire 2010.
" Un livre léger, débordant d'humanité. Qui rafraîchit comme une pluie d'été et donne faim de vivre. " Ph. C., Les Échos.
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Pleasantville

Attica Locke
- Serpent'S Tail
- 15 Avril 2015
- 9781781254097
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IN THE DREAM HOUSE ; A MEMOIR

Carmen Maria Machado
- Serpent'S Tail
- 1 Octobre 2020
- 9781788162258
''Ravishingly beautiful'' Observer ''Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative'' Irish Times ''Provocative and rich'' Economist ''Daring, chilling, and unlike anything else you''ve ever read'' Esquire ''An absolute must-read for 2020'' Stylist In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado''s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Each chapter views the relationship through a different lens, as Machado holds events up to the light and examines them from distinct angles. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction, infusing all with her characteristic wit, playfulness and openness to enquiry. The result is a powerful book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
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DETRANSITION, BABY ; WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLIST 2021

Torrey Peters
- Serpent'S Tail
- 6 Janvier 2022
- 9781788167222
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 As heard on BBC Radio 4''s Front Row February 2021 Book of the Month for Roxane Gay''s Book Club ''Irresistible ... Detransition, Baby is the first great trans realist novel '' Grace Lavery, Guardian ''A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel'' Chris Kraus ''Tremendously funny and sexy as hell'' Juliet Jacques Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn''t hate. She''d scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. When her ex calls to ask if she wants to be a mother, Reese finds herself intrigued. After being attacked in the street, Amy de-transitioned to become Ames, changed jobs and, thinking he was infertile, started an affair with his boss Katrina. Now Katrina''s pregnant. Could the three of them form an unconventional family - and raise the baby together?
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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver
- Serpent'S Tail
- 29 Avril 2010
- 9781846687341
Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood and Kevin's horrific rampage.
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BLUEBIRD BLUEBIRD

Attica Locke
- Serpent'S Tail
- 29 Mars 2018
- 9781781257685
Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 2018 2018 Edgar Award Winner for best novel When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger working the backwoods towns of Highway 59, knows all too well. Deeply conflicted about his home state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him back. So when allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders - a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman - have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes - and save himself in the process - before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. 'In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it. Ranger Darren Mathews is tough, honor-bound, and profoundly alive in corrupt world. I loved everything about this book.' Ann Patchett 'Locke's writing is both sharp-edged and lyrical . This is thoughtful, piercing storytelling with the power to transport.' Diana Evans, Financial Times
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MEDUSA OF THE ROSES

Navid Sinaki
- Serpent'S Tail
- 5 Septembre 2024
- 9781800816374
Anjir and Zal have been together ever since they first knew what love was. But living in Iran, the two men must keep their relationship hidden, potentially on pain of death.

When Zal gets attacked after being caught with another man in public, Anjir is heartbroken by the betrayal but chooses to forgive as the pair formulate a plan for the future. The Iranian government will partially pay for a trans person''s gender-confirming surgeries and Anjir, who''s always identified with the mythical gender-changing Tiresias, will become a woman. Together they can move away from Tehran for a fresh start as husband and wife.

Then Zal vanishes, leaving only a cryptic note behind. Anjir embarks on a quest through the queer underground of Tehran in search for the other man, hoping he will lead him to Zal. But someone is tailing Anjir too and the further into Zal''s secrets he delves, the more he suspects that further violence may soon be necessary.

A queer noir-infused love story of violence, vengeance and desire, Medusa of the Roses is a provocative, propulsive novel with the wild intensity of a fever dream.
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Bad Penny Blues

Cathi Unsworth
- Serpent'S Tail
- 9 Décembre 2009
- 9781846686788
Police Constable Pete Bradley has one year in the force and dreams of moving up the ladder. He's assigned as an aid to CID and working a routine nightshift with his partner when they stumble across a young woman's body. His search for her killer brings him deep into Soho's underbelly.
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THE ESSEX SERPENT

Sarah Perry
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- 15 Juin 2016
- 9781781255445
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HARUKO ; LOVE POEMS

June Jordan
- Serpent'S Tail
- 26 Janvier 2023
- 9781800814813
So do we finally recover side by side
what we have loved enough to keep
in spite of passion or love''s sorrow

What is love, in the poems of June Jordan, trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher, and activist? It is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. It is an open heart to the fleeting beauty of the world, both troublingly imperfect and yet endlessly surprising. It is desire, the speeding pulse and sleepless nights of lust and longing for a lover''s touch. It is the sum of existence and yet it leaves us always wanting more.
Haruko traces the faltering arc of a passionate love affair with another woman while Love Poems encompasses relationships with men and women, political resistance, the need for self-care in a demanding, uncaring world and apocalyptic visions of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum.
A contemporary of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, June Jordan''s spectacular poetry remains profoundly politically potent, lyrically inventive and breathtakingly romantic. First published in 1994, Love poems/ Haruko is a vitally important modern classic.
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Selected Poems

Langston Hughes
- Serpent'S Tail
- 1 Janvier 1988
- 9781852421274
Langston Hughes's poetry launched a revolution among black writers in America. The poems in this volume were chosen by Hughes shortly before his death in 1967 and encompass work from his entire career.
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THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?

Horace McCoy
- Serpent'S Tail
- 3 Septembre 2020
- 9781788165907
The Great Depression led people to take 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, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms. A lurid tale of dancing and desperation, Horace McCoy''s classic American novel captures the dark side of the 1930s.
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THE BLACK ORB

Ewhan Kim
- Serpent'S Tail
- 1 Août 2024
- 9781800815728
One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside when he sees something impossible: a huge black orb appears out of nowhere and sucks his neighbour inside.

The orb soon begins consuming other people and no one knows how to stop it. Impervious to bullets and tanks, the orb splits and multiplies, chasing the hapless residents of Seoul out into the country and sparking a global crisis with widespread violence and looting. Jeong-su must rely upon his wits as he makes the arduous journey in search of his elderly parents. But the strangest phases of this ever-expanding disaster are yet to come and Jeong-su will be forced to question everything he has taken for granted.

Dryly funny, propulsive and absurd, The Black Orb is terrifyingly prescient about the fragility of human civilisation.
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Dirty wars

Jérémy Scahill
- Serpent'S Tail
- 15 Avril 2013
- 9781846688508
In this remarkable story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, journalist Jeremy Scahill documents the new paradigm of American war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not officially exist, in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly acknowledged.
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THE MATERIAL

Camille Bordas
- Serpent'S Tail
- 4 Juillet 2024
- 9781805220060
Can comedy be taught? Someone, at some point, seemed to think so.

The teachers and students at the Chicago Stand-Up school all know how to make people laugh - in theory. They know the line between sharp and cruel, that sad becomes funny at the right angle, and that any moment of your life is a punchline waiting to happen. They''re all afraid of that. Artie may be too handsome for stand-up, Olivia reluctant to examine her own life, and Phil afraid to cause harm. Kruger concentrates more on commanding his father''s respect than his students'', Ashbee is too detached. And then we have Dorothy - the only woman on the faculty - who, though preparing to launch a comeback tour, can''t tell whether she''s too abiding, ambitious, or ambivalent. Will the arrival of visiting professor - the freshly cancelled comedian, Manny Reinhardt - help or harm their cause?

Riffing keenly across an array of perspectives, The Material examines life through the eyes of a band of outsiders bound together by whatever it is about themselves that makes them so desperate to make others laugh.
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