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The Moth introduced by Neil Gaiman Indigo Clemens J. Setz The Sean Duffy thrillers Adrian McKinty The Sun is God Adrian McKinty Travelling Sprinkler Nicholson Baker The Visitors Sarah Perry Spoiled Brats Simon Rich See You in Paradise J. Robert Lennon Serpent’s Tail paperback crime fiction Missing Sam Hawken Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung Lester Bangs Different Every Time Marcus O’Dair The Sexual Life of Catherine M. Catherine Millet Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo Mãn Kim Thúy Raw Material Jörg Fauser Recently published and new in paperback Serpent’s Tail Classics Backlist Contact information
Introduction
Serpent’s Tail
The maxim that the truth is stranger than fiction has never really applied to the Serpent’s Tail list, where the fiction has famously often been stranger than the truth. This year, though, we’re publishing a book of true stories from The Moth, an American phenomenon finally coming to Britain: from the ridiculous to the sublime, the tragic to the celebratory, these stories collected from all walks of life underline the magic, weirdness and unpredictability of human existence as brilliantly as any novel.
An imprint of Profile Books Ltd 3A Exmouth House Pine Street London EC1R 0JH 020 7841 6300 info@serpentstail.com www.serpentstail.com
Of course we’ve got plenty of mindblowing fiction too: new books from American legends who are each in their own inimitable way champions of the strange and unexpected – Nicholson Baker, J. Robert Lennon and Simon Rich, as well as deeply sinister and seductive first novels from Clemens J. Setz and Sarah Perry. We’re also publishing a trio of beautifully redesigned classics from the best of our backlist authors – Catherine Millet, Juan Rulfo and Lester Bangs – giving you a dose of sex, death and rock ’n’ roll to get you through the season. Hannah Westland Publisher
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The Moth
New Title
This Is a True Story
Introduced by Neil Gaiman
A spell-binding collection of true stories Before television, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather around the fire and tell stories. Bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. The Moth is a group trying to recapture this lost art, helping storytellers – old hands and novices alike – hone their stories before playing to packed crowds at sold-out live events. The very best of these real-life stories are collected here. Established writers such as Malcolm Gladwell, Sebastian Junger and Nathan Englander sit alongside ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell. Whether it’s Bill Clinton’s hell-raising press secretary, a doctor whisked away by nuns to Mother Teresa’s bedside or a friend of Hemingway’s who accidentally talks himself into a role as a substitute bullfighter, these eccentric, pitch-perfect – and all, amazingly, true – stories range from the poignant to the downright hilarious. ‘Brilliant and quietly addictive … crammed with personality … full of colour and life’ Guardian ‘One of the hottest events in town … enthralling, funny and moving’ The Times ‘New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket’ Wall Street Journal
The Moth is an acclaimed not-forprofit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase.
Non-fiction £12.99 Demy trade paperback 448pp ISBN: 9781846689895 eISBN: 9781782830689 August 2014 UK Com ex Can
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In 2002 a guest on a well-known talk show who called herself an angel-seer and medium claimed that she could perceive people’s aura … For a few years she had been noticing here and there little blue beings, children with an indigo-blue aura … she couldn’t for the life of her say what qualities that colour represented, but she suspected it had to do with the coming of a new age, that of the fish. This connection was comprehensible to no one, and so the woman explained that these children might be more spiritual, intelligent beings who had come to earth to save the planet.
Indigo
New Title
Clemens J. Setz Translated by Ross Benjamin
Thomas Pynchon meets Stephen King in this psychological literary thriller with a cult following around Europe It is 2007 and the world is in the grip of a sinister epidemic: Indigo Syndrome. Children are the only carriers, and anyone who comes near them is afflicted with severe headaches, nausea and vertigo. In Austria, Indigo children are sent to the Helianau Institute in the far north of the country, where they cannot affect the wider population. There, one of the teachers, Clemens Setz, witnesses students being taken away in strange masks. When Setz tries to find out what is going on, he swiftly loses his job. Fourteen years later, former Indigo child Robert Tätzel notices a newspaper article about his old teacher: Clemens Setz has just been acquitted of a brutal murder. But Tätzel harbours resentment against Setz and decides to investigate. ‘You won’t get away undamaged. This is highly addictive’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ‘Indigo is the rare example of a literary work that creates its own rules, and isn’t determined by anything beyond its own cosmos’ Der Spiegel
Clemens J. Setz was born in 1982 and lives in Graz, Austria. As well as being a writer, he is a mathematician, a magician and a musician. His novels Die Frequenzen and Indigo were both shortlisted for the German Book Prize.
Fiction £12.99 Demy hardback 448pp ISBN: 9781846689536 eISBN: 9781847659927 August 2014 UK Com ex Can Exclusive Europe
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In the Morning I’ll Be Gone Sean Duffy Book 3 ‘Duffy is one of the most interesting, convincing and sympathetic police officers in recent crime fiction … McKinty gets better and better’ The Times ‘Hugely enjoyable … Duffy resembles Iain Banks’ young male heroes – crass and impetuous, but also wickedly funny and capable of intense, redeeming empathy’ Guardian ‘Atmospheric, beautifully paced, precisely constructed, and genuinely hard to put down. Fans of the likes of Billingham, Rankin and Lehane will not want to miss out on McKinty’ The Age Crime fiction £7.99 B format paperback 336pp ISBN: 9781846688218 eISBN: 9781847659316 July 2014 World ex USA, Can Exclusive Europe
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The Cold Cold Ground Sean Duffy Book 1 ‘If Raymond Chandler had grown up in Northern Ireland, The Cold Cold Ground is what he would have written’ The Times Crime fiction £7.99 B format paperback 352pp ISBN: 9781846688232 eISBN: 9781847657954 June 2012 World ex USA, Can Exclusive Europe Tr
I Hear the Sirens in the Street Sean Duffy Book 2 ‘It blew my doors off’ Ian Rankin Crime fiction £7.99 B format paperback 352pp ISBN: 9781846688195 eISBN: 9781847659293 January 2014 World ex USA, Can Exclusive Europe
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The Sun is God
New Title
Adrian McKinty
Based on real events, a story of murder in the South Pacific among a most peculiar sect of sun-worshippers It is 1906 and Will Prior is in self-imposed exile on a remote South Pacific island, working a small, failing plantation. He should never have told anyone about his previous existence as a military foot policeman in the Boer War. But a man needs friends, even if they are as stuffy and, well, German, as Hauptmann Kessler, the local government representative. So it is that Kessler approaches Will one hot afternoon to request his help. On a neighbouring island inhabited by a reclusive cult of European ‘cocovores’ who believe sun worship and eating only coconuts will bring them eternal life, someone has died in suspicious circumstances. Kessler and Will – along with ‘lady traveller’ Bessie Pullen-Burry, who is foisted on them by the archipelago’s eccentric owner – must travel to the island to find out what is really going on. A departure from McKinty’s usual setting – this is a historical adventure based on a true story McKinty’s has recently won a Spinetingler Award and been listed for the Ned Kelly and Le prix du meilleur polar 2013
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. His debut crime novel Dead I Well May Be was shortlisted for the 2004 Dagger Award. His first Sean Duffy novel The Cold Cold Ground won the 2013 Spinetingler Award and its sequel I Hear The Sirens In The Street was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award.
Fiction £11.99 Demy trade paperback 288pp ISBN: 9781846689833 eISBN: 9781782830528 July 2014 World ex USA, Can Exclusive Europe
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Travelling Sprinkler
New Title
Nicholson Baker
A brilliantly clever comic novel about love in middle age from the IMPAC award-listed author of The New York Times bestseller Vox Paul Chowder is a poet but he’s fallen out of love with writing. He hasn’t fallen out of love with his ex-girlfriend Roz, though. In fact he misses her desperately. Struggling to come to terms with Roz’s new relationship with a local radio host, Paul turns to his acoustic guitar for comfort and inspiration and fills his days writing protest songs, going to Quaker meetings, struggling through Planet Fitness workouts, wondering if he could become a techno DJ and experimenting with cigar smoking. Written in Baker’s beautifully unconventional prose and scored by musicians from Debussy to Tracy Chapman to Paul himself, Travelling Sprinkler is an enchanting, hilarious novel from an off-beat American genius. Fiction £8.99 B format trade paperback 256pp ISBN: 9781781252789 eISBN: 9781782830764 June 2014 UK Com ex Can
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Nicholson Baker was born in New York City in 1957. In his many works of fiction and non-fiction he has written about John Updike, getting up early, about the beginnings of the Second World War, about sex and other subjects too numerous to list here.
‘Goofy and elegiac, intricately patterned and moving’ New Yorker ‘Outrageously wonderful, a love song to literature, a joy’ New York Journal of Books Listed as a Book of the Year by Salon, Kirkus and many more
The Visitors
New Title
Sarah Perry
A haunting and hypnotic debut novel by a brilliant new writer One hot summer’s day, John Cole walks out of his life. He shuts up the bookshop that no one visits and drives out of London, but soon he’s lost and his car has broken down on an isolated rural road. He stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house, whose residents welcome him with open arms. But there is more to this strange community than meets the eye. His new hosts all know him by name and have even prepared a room for him. They claim to have been waiting for him. John decides not to correct their mistake – if that’s what it was. But as the intensely hot days pass, their stories begin to unfold, until everything crescendoes to an apocalyptic storm that spells an end to the oppressive heat but also to the fragile sanctuary they’ve constructed. A completely original new voice in British literary fiction For fans of Sarah Hall, Hilary Mantel, and C. E. Morgan
Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979 and lives in Norwich. She has a PhD in creative writing from Royal Holloway which she completed under the supervision of Andrew Motion. She has been writer-in-residence at the Gladstone Library and won a Shiva Naipaul award for travel writing. The Visitors is her first book.
Fiction £11.99 Demy trade paperback with flaps 288pp ISBN: 9781846689451 eISBN: 9781846689468 June 2014 World ex USA Exclusive Europe
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Fiction / Short stories £7.99 B format paperback 224pp ISBN: 9781846689222 eISBN: 9781847659026 June 2013 UK Com ex Can
The Last Girlfriend on Earth
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Simon Rich
‘Brilliant … topsy-turvy imaginative, riotously funny, hugely insightful … Rich has a wisdom about male–female interaction that most have to wait far, far longer than twenty-eight years to gain’ Observer ‘A laugh-out-loud collection of short stories about that crazy little thing called love’ Vogue ‘Read it on the plane with caution – you will laugh so loud people will think you’re having some sort of episode’ Lauren Laverne, Elle
Fiction £7.99 B format paperback 176pp ISBN: 9781846688492 eISBN: 9781847658159 June 2013 UK Com ex Can
What in God’s Name
Paperback
Simon Rich
‘One of the best American comic novels of the past few years’ NPR ‘Divinely funny’ Vanity Fair ‘One of the funniest writers in America … feels like a little love letter to the world’ Daily Beast
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Spoiled Brats
New Title
Simon Rich
Growing up is hard to do, and Generation Y seem to be finding it harder than ever Meet Simon Rich’s latest creations: anxious parents, ungrateful kids and a wellmeaning angel of death. Having skewered the problems of falling in and out of love in The Last Girlfriend on Earth, his next book is on another subject we can all relate to: parents and their kids. From the perils of raising an actual monster in Manhattan – it’s pretty hard to find teachers who really understand the talents of a five-year-old with horns and a taste for blood – to ‘Sell Out’, the story of Rich’s ancestor, returned to life decades after an industrial accident involving pickling brine, these stories are inventive, witty and sometimes a bit too much like real life.
‘Simon Rich is outrageously, lavishly gifted’ Caitlin Moran ‘A James Thurber for our times, in Borges’ suit, wearing Flann O’Brien’s hat’ Ian Macmillan, BBC Radio 3’s The Verb ‘The wittiest American humourist of his generation … elegantly observed and hysterically funny … Rich’s spikiest work to date’ Guardian
Simon Rich is a graduate of Harvard University, where he was president of the Harvard Lampoon. He has worked for Pixar and Saturday Night Live, and is now working on other film and TV projects as well as his books. He writes regularly for the New Yorker and Observer. He lives in New York City.
Fiction / Short stories £10.99 Demy trade paperback 224pp ISBN: 9781781252833 eISBN: 9781782830801 August 2014 UK Com ex Can
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See You in Paradise
New Title
J. Robert Lennon
Unsettling stories by a dazzling stylist with an aberrant sense of humour Deftly blending the everyday at its most uncanny with smatterings of sci-fi, these stories explore the surreal that lurks in our daily lives, probing the moments when a new perspective can suddenly make things fall into place. A Japanese Hibachi grill rekindles a wife’s passion for her husband … and for revenge. A family take weekend trips to other worlds through a magic portal. Dan Larsen, recently drowned, is brought back to life and makes trouble for the group of friends who’d prefer he hadn’t been. Ellen invites neighbours – and her ex-husband – to a memorial party for Buster, a family pet who hasn’t died. Written with Lennon’s characteristic deadpan humour, these disconcerting stories catch you off guard and leave you wondering just how much peculiarity the world is capable of absorbing. ‘Lennon’s writing contains enough electricity to light up the country’ Ann Patchett ‘He writes sleek sentences that pick up the static charge of the unknown as they slide over the mundane surfaces of modern existence’ Daily Telegraph
J. Robert Lennon has written seven novels, including Familiar and Castle, and two short story collections. His fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, the New Yorker and the London Review of Books. He lives in Ithaca, New York and teaches writing at Cornell University.
Fiction / Short stories £8.99 B format trade paperback 288pp ISBN: 9781781253359 eISBN: 9781782831013 November 2014 UK Com ex Can
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Crime fiction £7.99 B format paperback 336pp ISBN: 9781846689765 eISBN: 9781782830290 November 2014 UK & Com ex Can
No Regrets, Coyote
New paperback
John Dufresne
‘A novel so good you want to throw a party for it. It’s tense, unnerving, fearless and funny as hell’ Dennis Lehane ‘Genuinely funny, genuinely suspenseful … Dufresne’s hilariously dark vision of South Florida brings to mind the work of such masters as Donald Westlake and Elmore Leonard’ Tom Perrotta ‘A very cool ride. If Raymond Chandler was reincarnated as a novelist in South Florida, he couldn’t nail it any better’ Carl Hiaasen
Crime fiction £7.99 B format paperback 288pp ISBN: 9781781252017 eISBN: 9781906994983 July 2014 UK & Com ex Can Exclusive Europe
Swear Down
New paperback
Russ Litten
‘Starts with a killer hook and grows into something more intricate’ Financial Times ‘Compelling and utterly convincing – this is real life, not just a crime novel’ Jake Arnott
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‘A gripping, magnificently paced book that takes lessons from Richard Price and Elmore Leonard. It is superb’ Niall Griffiths
Missing
New Title
Sam Hawken
A tough, terrifying novel about two men desperately fighting for justice Jack Searle, an American widower, is bringing up his two stepdaughters Lidia and Marina alone in the border town of Laredo. One night, Marina crosses the border into Mexico to go to a concert with her cousin Patricia in Nuevo Laredo – a dangerous city, controlled by drug cartels and devastated by violence and corruption. They never come back. A frantic hunt begins, with Jack and inspector Gonzalo Soler leading the way. But soon the whole police force is suspended due to endemic corruption, the army takes over the city and the missing girls are forgotten. Jack and Gonzalo must take the law into their own hands, but in their efforts to find the girls they uncover truths about Nuevo Laredo that neither of them ever wanted to face.
‘Hawken trades in gritty realism’ Irish Times ‘Hawken’s words will keep you hooked until the very last sentence’ New York Journal of Books Sam Hawken has been listed twice for the CWA Dagger
Sam Hawken lives near Washington DC with his wife and son. This is his third novel set on the US/Mexican border. Tequila Sunset and The Dead Women of Juárez were nominated for Dagger awards.
Crime fiction £7.99 B format trade paperback 384pp ISBN: 9781846689420 eISBN: 9781847659613 September 2014 World
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Classic
Lester Bangs
‘A rock myth, a typewriter-trashing Jim Morrison who helped invent the whole punk rock aesthetic’ Nick Kent Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock ’n’ roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed and many more. He had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing. Written in a conversational, wisecracking style, his hallucinatory hagiographies and excoriating take-downs reveal an iconoclast unafraid to tell it as he saw it. His essays, reviews and scattered notes reveal a true poet channelling the electric thrill of the great music of his time. As editor Greil Marcus writes in his introduction: ‘What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.’
Music £9.99 B format paperback 416pp ISBN: 9781781252772 eISBN: 9781847655585 December 2014 UK Com ex Can
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Lester Bangs wrote for Rolling Stone, Creem, Village Voice and numerous other publications. He died in 1982.
‘Bangs was one of the best writers ever to appear in newsprint … When he died, American culture lost one of its most astute, ornery, funniest and most soulful observers’ The New York Times ‘Wild and funny and unpredictable. Lester Bangs was a great American writer who happened to write about rock ’n’ roll’ Rolling Stone
Different Every Time
New Title
The authorised biography of Robert Wyatt
Marcus O’Dair
The first and definitive biography of Britain’s greatest cult musician Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, a band who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured with Jimi Hendrix. He brought a bohemian and jazz outlook to the 1960s rock scene, having honed his drumming skills in a shed at the end of Robert Graves’ garden in Mallorca. His life took an abrupt turn in 1973 after he fell from a fourth-floor window at a party and was paralysed from the waist down. He reinvented himself as a singer and composer with the extraordinary album Rock Bottom. A dozen albums on, Wyatt is still guesting with artists such as Björk, David Gilmour and Hot Chip. Marcus O’Dair has talked to just about everyone associated with Wyatt, and spent many hours with the man himself.
Interviews include long-time collaborators Brian Eno and David Gilmour, and a cast list from Julie Christie to Geoff Travis Illustrated throughout with rare photos from Wyatt’s personal archive
Marcus O’Dair is a writer, lecturer and musician. He writes on music for the Guardian, Independent and Financial Times and is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music. He is also one half of the Ninja Tune act Grasscut, who have performed at the Pompidou Centre and across Europe.
Music / Biography £20 Royal hardback 384pp with illustrations ISBN: 9781846687594 eISBN: 9781847656490 October 2014 World
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The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
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Catherine Millet Translated by Adriana Hunter
The sensational erotic memoir that shocked the world A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex – this is Parisian art critic Catherine Millet’s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. From the glamorous singles clubs of Paris to the Bois de Boulogne, she describes her erotic experiences in precise and beautiful detail. A phenomenal bestseller around the world, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. broke with accepted ideas of sex and examined the many alternative manifestations of desire long before Fifty Shades of Grey. Told in spare, elegant prose, her story will shock, enlighten and liberate you.
Memoir £9.99 B format paperback 192pp ISBN: 9781846689628 eISBN: 9781847655820 September 2014 UK Com ex Can
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Catherine Millet is the editor of Art Press, an influential Parisian art magazine. She has written books on modern art, including a monograph on the painter Yves Klein.
‘The author writes like a connoisseur … a brilliant testimony of a life spent at the sexual front line’ Independent ‘Millet is the new icon of highbrow pornography’ Guardian ‘I don’t approve of The Sexual Life of Catherine M. But I am grateful she has written it’ Lynne Truss, The Times
Pedro Páramo
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Juan Rulfo Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden and with a new foreword by Gabriel García Márquez
A legendary classic of magic realism and the most important Mexican novel ever written Swearing to his dying mother that he’ll find the father he has never met – a certain Pedro Páramo – Juan Preciado sets out across the barren plains of Mexico for Comala, the hallucinatory ghost town his father presided over like a feudal lord. Between the realms of the living and the dead, in fragments of dreams and the nightly whispers of Comala’s ghosts, there emerges the tragic tale of Pedro Páramo and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul. Re-issued with a new foreword by Gabriel García Márquez, who counts Pedro Páramo as his most important influence, Juan Rulfo’s only novel is a strange and beautiful story of love, the slow death of hope and the everlasting echoes of the voices of the dead. ‘The essential Mexican novel, unsurpassed and unsurpassable ... extraordinary’ Carlos Fuentes ‘A simplicity and profundity worthy of Greek tragedy … Wuthering Heights located in Mexico and written by Kafka’ Guardian
Juan Rulfo was born in Jalisco in Mexico in 1917 and died in 1986. Pedro Páramo is his only novel.
Fiction £8.99 B format paperback 128pp ISBN: 9781781253168 eISBN: 9781847655455 July 2014 UK Com ex Can
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Mãn Kim Thúy Translated by Sheila Fischman
THE CLERKENWELL PRESS
A novel filled with indelible images of beauty, delicacy and power, by the highly acclaimed author of Ru Abandoned at a Buddhist temple as a child and raised first by a nun, then by her beloved Maman, when Mãn is of age she marries a Vietnamese restaurateur living in Montreal. Discovering that she is a natural chef, Mãn creates dishes that are suffused with memory and emotion, that evoke place and time and that even bring her customers to tears. Mãn is a mystery – while her name means ‘perfect fulfilment’, she lives to serve others. She is the still centre of a growing community, a motley collection of expatriate Vietnamese and natives of her adopted city. But when circumstances propel her outside of her circle, an insistent and forbidden love takes hold of her and transforms her forever.
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Kim Thúy’s first book Ru won five international literary awards, including the Governor General’s Award. Ru was a bestseller in France and Canada and has been translated into over twenty languages. Thúy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She lives in Montreal.
‘Kim Thúy writes with equal delicacy and candour about a childhood marked by horrifying brutality, and the pleasures of ordinary peace’ Eva Hoffman ‘Kim Thúy is a born storyteller, but she rewrites the traditional immigrant narrative in a completely new way, makes it whole and wondrous once more’ Ru jury citation for the Giller Prize Shortlist
Raw Material Jörg Fauser Translated by Jamie Bulloch
THE CLERKENWELL PRESS
Funny, savagely ironic, Raw Material is a great modern European novel ‘They were all the same – communists, Nazis, parents, church, book reviews, features section, editorial, revolutionary struggle, Baader-Meinhof, capital, television, Club Voltaire, pacifism, guerilla, Mao, Trotsky, Red Student Action Law Section, the underground scene and Germania Security. They were all part of the same idea, they knew how things ought to be, they had a monopoly on consciousness, love, human happiness.’ In Raw Material Jörg Fauser casts an eye over the times he lived in and his own life: as a junkie in Istanbul, in a commune in Berlin and a squat in Frankfurt, working on an underground magazine and trying ceaselessly to get a novel published. The autobiographical testament of Fauser’s alter ego Harry Gelb is an unsparing, razor-sharp but often lovingly ironic portrait of the artist to rank with the best, and of the ferment of Europe in the late 1960s and the 1970s. ‘The Clint Eastwood of German literature’ Franz Dobler ‘One of the best German novels ever published’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A remarkable portrait of an extraordinary time
Jörg Fauser was born in Frankfurt in 1944. After abandoning his studies he lived in Istanbul and London before moving back to Germany, where he made his living as a writer of fiction and poetry. He died in Munich in 1987.
Fiction £8.99 B format trade paperback with flaps 288pp ISBN: 9781846689734 eISBN: 9781782830283 November 2014 World English Language
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No Man’s Land Pete Ayrton
Eat My Heart Out Zoe Pilger
The Mistress Contract She & He
‘The essential collection of writing from the First World War’ The Times
‘Gloriously hilarious … the hipster Bridget Jones’ Diary it’s OK to like’ Dazed & Confused
‘Tantalising’ Observer
£25 Royal hardback ISBN: 9781846689253 eISBN: 9781847659224 January 2014 World ex USA, Can Exclusive Europe
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler
Live At the Brixton Academy Simon Parkes with JS Rafaeli
‘Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart’ Barbara Kingsolver
The riotous story behind the legendary gig venue
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A Permanent Member of the Family Russell Banks ‘One of the great literary explorers of our time’ Colum McCann £9.99 B format trade paperback with flaps ISBN: 9781846689697 eISBN: 9781782830276 November 2013 UK Com ex Can
Love Game Elizabeth Wilson
No Book But the World Leah Hager Cohen
The Ravens Tomas Bannerhead
Death of the Poet N Quentin Woolf
A comprehensive narrative history of tennis from Victorian pastime to global TV spectacle
The highly anticipated follow-up to the Orange Prize-listed The Grief of Others
A razor-sharp depiction of a boy’s struggle to confront adulthood
A daringly honest exploration of violence and masculinity
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Agents and Representatives, UK & Europe
Serpent’s Tail An imprint of Profile Books Ltd 3A Exmouth House Pine Street
Sales Director
South West England
Scotland & North East England
London EC1R 0JH
Claire Beaumont T: 020 7841 6308 E: claire.beaumont@profilebooks.com
Richard Evans T: 07957 354 631
John McColgan T: 07595 214 384
020 7841 6300
Kent, Essex & East London
Ireland
Lindsay Powell T: 07715 693 591
Repforce T: + 353 1 634 9927 F: + 353 1 669 7449 E: info@repforce.ie
Publicity Manager Anna-Marie Fitzerald T: 020 7841 6304 E: anna-marie.fitzgerald@profilebooks.com
Rights Director Penny Daniel T: 020 7841 6300 E: penny.daniel@profilebooks.com
www.serpentstail.com
London Central Jeremy Wood T: 07966 058 496
Wholesalers, Oxford, East Anglia, Bath & Bristol
US Rights
Kim Lund T: 07980 712 111
Inkwell Management T: 00 1 212 922 3500 E: george@inkwellmanagement.com
Wales & Midlands
Faber & Faber Sales Representatives UK NATIONAL ACCOUNTS & EUROPE T: 020 7927 3800 E: sales@faber.co.uk
Marina McCarron T: 07812 674 688
North West England Sue Jackson T: 07980 712 102
Surrey & South London Kellie Balseiro T: 07790 757 833
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info@serpentstail.com
Northern Europe Bridget Lane E: bridgetl@faber.co.uk
Central Europe Melissa Elders E: melissa@faber.co.uk
Southern Europe Hattie Castelberg E: hattie.castelberg@faber.co.uk
Eastern Europe Adriana Juncu E: adriana@j4.ro
Rest of the World
Australia & New Zealand
Middle East
United States & Canada
Allen & Unwin T: + 612 8425 0100 F: + 612 9906 2218 E: info@allenandunwin.com
Sarah Ward T: + 44 (0) 207 841 6300 E: sarah.ward@profilebooks.com
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Malaysia Office
Hattie Castelberg T: +44 (0) 207 465 0045 E: hattie.castelberg@faber.co.uk
All Other International Sales Enquiries
South Africa
Sarah Ward, Profile Books International Sales Director T:+44 (0) 20 7841 6300 E: sarah.ward@profilebooks.com
Book Promotions T: + 27 21 707 5700 F: + 27 21 707 5795 E: enquiries@bookpro.co.za
Rest of Africa Tula Publishing T: + 44 (0)1865 553 606 F: + 44 (0)1865 454 131 E: julian@tulapublishing.co.uk
T: + 60 3 7877 6063 F: + 60 3787 3414 E: customersvc@apdkl.com
South America, Central America & Caribbean
Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan & Korea
InterMediaAmericana T: +44 (0) 20 7274 7113 F: +44 (0) 20 7274 7103 E: david@intermediaamericana.com
Melissa Elders E: melissa@faber.co.uk
Distribution TBS Ltd T: 01206 256 000 (switchboard) T: 01206 255 678 (trade orders) F: 01206 255 930 E: sales@tbs-ltd.co.uk
Catalogue cover: Peter Dyer Catalogue artwork: Two Associates
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