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The Warlow Experiment Alix Nathan Heaven, My Home Attica Locke In the Dream House Carmen Maria Machado Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming László Krasznahorkai A Lucky Man Jamel Brinkley Say Say Say Lila Savage October A. S. Hatch Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Saidiya Hartman Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen Alix Kates Shulman Address Unknown Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Melmoth Sarah Perry Washington Black Esi Edugyan The Beekeeper of Sinjar Dunya Mikhail New in paperback Recently published Backlist Serpent’s Tail Classics Contact information
Introduction
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Our Autumn 2019 books have a lot to say about freedom – the suffering we endure without it, the lengths we’ll go to get it, and what we do with it once we have it. We have Alix Nathan’s masterly novel The Warlow Experiment, about a twisted Enlightenment experiment gone wrong; Saidiya Hartman’s extraordinary Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, a radical account of young black American women at the turn of the century defining their lives on their own terms; Lila Savage’s devastating debut novel Say Say Say about a carer working for a couple whose lives have been shattered by a tragic accident; the 1970s patriarchy-smashing classic Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen; and Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House, a memoir of a descent into and then escape from a violent relationship. And much more besides. This fierce, unforgettable season of books reminds us how much of our freedom has been hard won, and how important it is that we continue to fight for and celebrate it.
Hannah Westland Publisher, Serpent’s Tail
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The Warlow Experiment Alix Nathan
New title
What kind of person keeps a man underground for seven years? The year is 1792 and Herbert Powyss is set on making his name as a scientist. Determined to study the effects of prolonged solitude on another human being, he advertises for someone willing to live in his cellar for seven years in return for a generous financial reward. The only man to apply is John Warlow, a semi-literate farm labourer with a wife and six children to support. Cut off from nature and the turning of the seasons, Warlow soon begins losing his grip on sanity. Above ground, Powyss finds yet another distraction from his greenhouse in the form of Warlow’s wife, Hannah, with whom he rapidly becomes obsessed. Meanwhile, the servants are brewing up a rebellion inspired by recent news from across the Channel. Powyss may have set events in motion, but he is powerless to prevent their explosive and devastating conclusion. A richly imagined novel which will appeal to readers of Francis Spufford and Sarah Waters Praise for Alix Nathan: ‘The best kind of historical fiction ... She is an original, with a virtuoso touch’ Hilary Mantel
Alix Nathan read English and Music at York University. She lives in the Welsh Marches where she owns some ancient woodland with her husband. Her short stories have been published in Ambit, The London Magazine and New Welsh Review and read on BBC Radio 4.
Fiction £12.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78816 169 5 288pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 507 3 July 2018 World ex USA, Can Exclusive Europe Tr
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Heaven, My Home
Crime fiction
Attica Locke
The hotly anticipated sequel to the CWA Dagger-winning Bluebird, Bluebird When the young son of an Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang captain goes missing near Caddo Lake, Ranger Darren Matthews has no choice but to investigate the crime. Following the election of Donald Trump, a new wave of racial violence has swept the state like wildfire. This is deep country and the rule of law doesn’t mean much to the Brotherhood, beyond what it can do for them. To make matters more complicated, the Brotherhood is squatting on the land that was once a Freedmen’s community, and one of the last descendants of these former slaves is a suspect in the possible murder of the missing boy. Instructed by his lieutenant to use the investigation as a way of gathering more evidence to take down the Brotherhood, Darren is playing a very dangerous game indeed.
‘America’s most interesting crime writer’ Daily Telegraph ‘This is the best kind of thriller: as literate and thoughtful as it is fastmoving’ Mick Herron, author of Slow Horses
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Attica Locke is the author of Bluebird, Bluebird, which won the Edgar Prize; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.
Crime fiction £14.99 Royal hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 769 2 £12.99 Export paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 082 7 320pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 320 8 September 2019 UK Com ex Can
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In the Dream House Carmen Maria Machado
New title
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties 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 narrative 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.
Memoir £14.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78816 224 1 288pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 536 3 November 2019 UK Com ex Can
‘Machado’s writing is full of repressed physical energy and the raw juice of annihilating female fury.’ Louise Erdrich
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife.
‘Machado’s use of a vivid experimental lens to show women struggling for agency is startling.’ New Yorker
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Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming László Krasznahorkai
The defining master-work of the Man Booker International winner’s spectacular career Nearing the end of his life, Baron Béla Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town’s alternately drab and absurd existence. Meanwhile, the Professor – a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town – offers long rants and disquisitions on his own attempts to immunise himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, until finally doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town.
‘A visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence ... magnificent works of deep imagination’ Man Booker International Prize citation
László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the International Man Booker Prize 2015, 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango, and 1993 Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance. 978 1 78125 511 7 £8.99
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A Lucky Man Jamel Brinkley
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An expansive fiction debut from a major new voice compared to Toni Morrison and Alice Munro In the nine unforgettable stories of A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley explores the unseen tenderness of black men and boys: the struggle to love and be loved, the invisible ties of family and friendship, and the inescapable forces of race, class and masculinity. A teen intent on proving himself a man at an all-night rave is preoccupied by watching out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of young men who follow two girls home from a party face the uncomfortable truth of their desires. An imaginative boy from the inner city goes swimming in the suburbs, and faces the effects of privilege in ways he can barely grasp. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with their painful family history. Moving, lyrical and keen-eyed, A Lucky Man captures the inner lives of men and boys caught between hope and expectation, duty and desire. Fiction £12.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78816 321 7 288pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 588 2 June 2019 UK Com ex Can
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Jamel Brinkley’s writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2018, A Public Space, Tin House and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University and lives in California. A Lucky Man is his first book.
‘Full of subtle poignancy ... each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of masculinity and the vulnerable, volatile self.’ New Yorker A finalist for numerous prizes, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle First Book Award and the PEN America Prize for debut short fiction, and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award
Say Say Say Lila Savage
Debut
A beautiful, bracingly honest novel about compassion, devotion and the fluidity of desire Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined. Her artistic ambitions as a student have given way to an unintended career as a care worker. One spring, Bryn – a retired carpenter – hires her to help him care for Jill, his wife of many years. A car accident caused a brain injury that has left Jill verbally diminished; she moves about the house like a ghost of her former self. Ella is profoundly moved by the tenderness shown by Bryn towards the wife he still fiercely loves, and is startled by the yearning this awakens in her, one that complicates her feelings for her girlfriend, Alix, and causes her to look at all of her relationships in new ways. Tracing the most intimate reaches of a young woman’s heart and mind, Say Say Say is a tightly woven, humane and insightful story about what it means to love in a world where time is always running out. Will appeal to fans of Marilynne Robinson and Sally Rooney Partly inspired by the years the author spent working as a home carer for people with Alzheimer’s disease
Lila Savage is originally from Minneapolis. Prior to writing fiction, she spent nearly a decade working as a caregiver. Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review. She is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner fellowship and graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2018. She lives in San Francisco.
Fiction £12.99 B-format hardback ISBN: 978 1 78816 222 7 192pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 535 6 August 2019 UK Com ex Can
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October A. S. Hatch
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A gripping psychological thriller: a dark love triangle and an unspeakable act of betrayal How well do you know your girlfriend? How well do you know your lover? How well do you know yourself? Daniel and Victoria are together and trying for a baby. Ruby is in prison, convicted of assault on an abusive partner. When Daniel joins a pen-pal programme for prisoners, he and Ruby make contact. At first the messages are polite, neutral – but soon they find themselves revealing more and more about themselves. Their deepest fears, their darkest desires. And then, one day, Ruby comes to find Daniel. Now he must decide who to choose – and who to trust.
An exciting debut novel full of twists and suspense with contemporary themes For fans of Sharp Objects, The Girl on the Train and The Silent Wife
A. S. Hatch grew up in Lancashire in the 90s and has lived in Taipei and Melbourne. Now he lives in London and writes fiction in the early hours of the morning before going to work in political communications.
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Saidiya Hartman
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How the first generations of black women born after slavery seized their freedom and created the modern world In the early twentieth century, young black women were in open rebellion. A social revolution unfolded in American cities as they wrestled with the question ‘what is a free life?’ Born free and unwilling to give up their freedom to embrace respectability, they created new forms of intimacy and kinship. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist and revised the meaning of marriage. They refused to labour like slaves or to accept working conditions which degraded them. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments narrates this radical transformation of black social life. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Saidiya Hartman shows us how these women created a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. ‘Ambitious, original … a beautiful experiment in its own right, to be set beside the many attempts at living free that Hartman here chronicles with a keen sense of history, imagination and love.’ Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts ‘A startling, dazzling act of resurrection … Hartman challenges us to see, finally, who these women really were.’ Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
Saidiya Hartman is the author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route and Scenes of Subjection. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and has been a Cullman Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. She is a professor at Columbia University and lives in New York.
Social Science, History £17.99 Royal trade paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 323 1 368pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 589 9 August 2019 UK Com ex Can
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Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen Alix Kates Shulman
Serpent’s Tail Classics
The lost comic masterpiece of second–wave feminism Sasha Davis has everything a girl growing up in 1950s suburbia could want: beauty, intelligence and an all-star sports captain boyfriend. All she needs to succeed in life is to keep her skin clear and her intelligence hidden under her Prom Queen tiara. But when she drops out of college to marry, Sasha soon realises her life has become a fearful countdown to her thirtieth birthday – the year when her beauty will have faded and life as she knows it will end. As Sasha begins to rebel against her perfect, conservative upbringing, she finds herself experiencing an intellectual and sexual awakening that might be her only chance of outrunning the aging process. Alix Kates Shulman’s landmark 1972 novel follows Sasha’s coming of age through the sexual double standards, job discrimination and harassment of the 1950s and 60s. Five decades and over a million copies later, it remains a funny and heartbreakingly perceptive story of a young woman in a man’s world. Fiction £8.99 B-format trade paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 340 8 296pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 608 7 June 2019 UK Com ex Can
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Alix Kates Shulman is the author of fourteen books. Born in Ohio, she studied philosophy at Columbia University and received an MA at New York University. She became an activist, joining the Congress of Racial Equality in 1961 and the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1967. Shulman continues to speak on feminist issues.
‘An extraordinary novel … women will like it and men should read it for the good of their immortal souls’ The New York Times ‘Sad and witty, expertly conceived and executed … important’ Newsweek ‘This story, told with astringent wit, explores every facet and cliché of what it means to grow up female and beautiful’ San Francisco Chronicle
Address Unknown
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
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The enduring classic of a friendship torn apart by Nazism Can friendship survive in a divided world? Written on the eve of the Holocaust as a series of letters between a Jew in America and his German friend, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor’s classic novel is a haunting tale of a society poisoned by Nazism. First published in 1938, Address Unknown met with immediate success in English but was banned in Europe by the Nazis. Tragically prescient about what was to come, it was one of the earliest works of fiction to warn against the growing dangers of fascism and antisemitism in Europe. It became an international bestseller and has been translated into over twenty languages. A novel of enduring impact with a memorable sting in its tail, Address Unknown stands as a powerful reminder of the dangers posed by the rhetoric of intolerance. ‘This modern story is perfection itself. It is the most effective indictment of Nazism to appear in fiction.’ New York Times Book Review ‘A tale already known and profoundly appreciated by members of my generation. It is to our part in World War II what Uncle Tom’s Cabin was to the Civil War.’ Kurt Vonnegut
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor was living in New York with her husband and working as a copywriter when Address Unknown was published in Story magazine. She later taught at Gettysburg College and is also known for her novel Until That Day. She died in 1996.
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Melmoth
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Sarah Perry
Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of The Essex Serpent Suffolk, 1637. Trebizond, 1915. Theresienstadt, 1945. Manila, 1996. Prague, 2016. It’s always the same: a woman in dark clothes is seen just at the corner of your eye, and slips from view when you turn your head. Sometimes she comes in the night and sits waiting at the end of the bed and sometimes she follows you down alleys in the dark or even at noon when the shadows are very small … She knows the worst thing you ever did, the secret too dark to share with anybody. The life you thought you’d left behind. Helen has been living quietly in Prague, trying to forget. But one evening, her new friend Karel presses a leather-bound dossier into her hands and asks if she knows the name Melmoth. Helen is sceptical, but try as she might, she can’t shake the feeling that someone is watching her too. Fiction £8.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 067 4 288pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 455 7 October 2019 UK Com ex Can Exclusive Europe
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‘Perry’s masterly piece of postmodern gothic is one of the great achievements of our century.’ Observer
Sarah Perry is the author of The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood. She has been the UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence in Prague and a Gladstone’s Library writer-inresidence. Her work has been translated into twenty languages.
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‘A sophisticated and delightful gothic contraption’ Washington Post
Washington Black
New in paperback
Esi Edugyan
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2018 FINALIST FOR THE 2018 CARNEGIE MEDAL FINALIST FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE 2018 When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black – an eleven-year-old field slave – finds himself selected as personal servant to Christopher ‘Titch’ Wilde, with whom he escapes the island. When Titch disappears, Washington must make his own way, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible. Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is an extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again. ‘A thoughtful, profound epic that feels destined to become a future classic ... It’s a masterpiece which is full of surprises, and is that rare book that should appeal to every kind of reader.’ Guardian
Esi Edugyan’s Half Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor-General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize and the Orange Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
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The Beekeeper of Sinjar Dunya Mikhail
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‘Either we die here, or we escape together’ Since 2014, ISIS has been killing and enslaving the Yazidi people. In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed Iraqi poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape. In the midst of ISIS’s reign of terror and hatred, an unlikely hero has emerged: the Beekeeper. Once a trader selling mountain honey, when ISIS came to Sinjar he turned his knowledge of the terrain to another use. Along with a secret network of helpers, Abdullah Shrem smuggles brutalised Yazidi women to safety. This powerful work of literary non–fiction offers hope in the face of terror, as ordinary people go to extraordinary lengths to save the lives of others.
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Dunya Mikhail worked for the Baghdad Observer before she was forced to flee Iraq. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize and won the 2010 Arab American Book Award. She has also been awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing.
‘This book is not for the faint-hearted, but they should read it anyway. We should all read it.’ Observer ‘Mikhail has created a searing portrait of courage, humanity and savagery ... her gifts as a poet infuse these narratives with unexpected beauty.’ The New York Times
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‘Urgently political, deeply personal and engagingly spiritual’ Marlon James
‘Perceptive, funny and endearing – reminiscent of The Big Chill and St Elmo’s Fire’ Publishers Weekly
‘Outrageously, lavishly gifted’ Caitlin Moran
‘A fascinating book about a remarkable woman’ The Times
‘A superbly sinister mystery that had me hugging myself with delight’ Christopher Fowler
Memoir £9.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 197 8 eISBN: 9781 78283 522 6 September 2019 UK Com ex Can
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‘Hypnotic … a bold feminist novel’ TLS
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Other international sales enquiries
Sarah Ward, Profile Books International Sales Director T: + 44 (0) 20 7841 6300 E: sarah.ward@profilebooks.com
Catalogue cover: Gary Andrew Clarke Catalogue artwork: Two Associates
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