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Serpent’s Tail3A Exmouth HousePine StreetLondon EC1R 0JH020 7841 [email protected]

Introduction

This season’s list is eclectic, if not positively schizophrenic – which is just what we want at Serpent’s Tail. Our new books this autumn divide into two categories, seemingly polar opposites.

On one side are big, dangerous themes – politics, race, exploitation and power – addressed in unputdownable stories. Attica Locke’s new book, The Cutting Season, leads this charge, taking on the meaning of history in the American South. Beside it are Sam Hawken’s novel of border politics, Tequila Sunset; Fabrice Humbert’s examination of immigration, Sila’s Fortune; a vision of modern South Africa in Roger Smith’s Capture; and Cathi Unsworth’s defence of the apparently indefensible, Weirdo.

On the other side are works of exuberant imagination. Everyone needs to read a book that’s pure pleasure sometimes. So Simon Rich’s What In God’s Name reimagines heaven as a mismanaged corporation with an irresponsible CEO. Albert of Adelaide is a classic western, set in the Australian outback, with a platypus as its hero. And John Hegley offers a window into his inimitable world in his latest collection, Peace, Love and Potatoes.

We wish you enjoyable, challenging and, most of all, varied reading.

Contents

Serpent’s Tail2-3 The Cutting Season Attica Locke4-5 What In God’s Name Simon Rich6 Weirdo Cathi Unsworth 7 Tequila Sunset Sam Hawken8-9 Albert of Adelaide Howard Anderson10 The Origin of Violence Fabrice Humbert11 Sila’s Fortune Fabrice Humbert12-13 Peace, Love & Potatoes John Hegley14 Capture Roger Smith15 Half Blood Blues Esi Edugyan16 Fear Gabriel Chevallier17 The Cold Cold Ground Adrian McKinty18 You & I Padgett Powell19 Edisto Padgett Powell20 To Live Outside the Law Leaf Fielding21 Black By Design Pauline Black

The Clerkenwell Press22-23 The Grief of Others Leah Hager Cohen24 Disaster Was My God Bruce Duffy25 Wall of Days Alastair Bruce

26-27 Backlist28-29 Contact information

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The Cutting Season Attica Locke

The American South in the twenty-first century. A dead body. And so much history.

Just after dawn, Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house in Louisiana she manages. Today she sees nothing unusual, but later, she gets a call. Something terrible has been discovered up by the fence bordering the cane fields.

A dead body. At a distance, she missed her. A young woman, lying face-down in a shallow grave, her throat cut clean.

Now Caren has police on site, an investigation in progress, a member of staff no one can track down. And she keeps uncovering things she will wish she didn’t know. A magnificent, sweeping story, The Cutting Season brings history face-to-face with modern America, where Obama is president, but some things never change.

‘Attica Locke is a stand-out in every way’ James Ellroy

‘Locke has an extraordinary gift’ Guardian

Attica Locke’s debut novel Black Water Rising was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2010

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Attica Locke’s first novel, Black Water Rising, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Attica is also a screenwriter and was a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Filmmakers Lab. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.

Crime Fiction£12.99Royal Trade Paperback352ppISBN: 9781846688034eISBN: 9781847658500SeptemberUK Com ex Can

Caren has always known that beneath its loamy topsoil, the manicured grounds and gardens, two centuries of breathtaking wealth and spectacle, lies a land

both black and bitter, and that one day it would spit out what it no longer had use for, the secrets it would no longer keep.

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What In God’s Name Simon Rich

Welcome to Heaven Inc, the mismanaged corporation in the sky

From the Sunsets Department and Geyser Regulation to the Department of Miracles, Heaven Inc has the earth covered. Unless someone is away from their desk. But these days, the CEO is kind of bored. He knows he should be following the genocide on earth, but finds himself watching the church channels on satellite TV instead. His first priority is the team of angels getting Lynyrd Skynyrd back together.

Meanwhile, angels Craig and Eliza are working hard. Just promoted from the prayers department, Eliza is shocked when she discovers that God has finally given up on the earth, and decided to destroy it. He’s opening an Asian-American fusion restaurant instead. So Craig and Eliza, who really care about the humans, must come up with a plan to save the earth. And maybe even get a promotion, too.

Warm, funny and clever, What In God's Name crosses Then We Came to the End with Family Guy

Simon Rich is currently writing for Pixar, the studio that brought us Up and Toy Story

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Simon Rich is twenty-seven. He was the youngest writer ever hired by Saturday Night Live and is now writing a film for Pixar. He also contributes to the New Yorker. His first novel, Elliot Allagash, is also published by Serpent’s Tail.

Fiction£11.99Demy Trade Paperback224ppISBN: 9781846688485eISBN: 9781847658159AugustUK Com ex Can

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Tequila Sunset Sam Hawken

Gritty page-turner set amongst the gangs who really control the US/Mexican border

El Paso and Ciudad Juárez sit across the border from each other. They share streets, industry, crime. One gang claims territory in both: Barrio Azteca, or, as the Mexicans call them, Los Aztecas. This single criminal organisation is responsible for eighty per cent of the homicides committed in Juárez.

Felipe Morales is one of them. Recruited in prison, now on the streets of El Paso, ‘Flip’ has no choice but to step further into that world, but he has a secret that could cost him his life. Witness to murder and intimidation, he tries one desperate gamble to get out.

‘Hawken trades in gritty realism’ Irish Times

Sam Hawken’s first book, The Dead Women of Juárez, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger 2011

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Born in Texas, Sam Hawken now lives in Washington DC. His first book, The Dead Women of Juárez, also set on the US/Mexican border, was shortlisted for the 2011 Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger.

Crime Fiction£11.99Demy Trade Paperback368ppISBN: 9781846688539eISBN: 9781847658265SeptemberWorld

Cathi Unsworth began her journalistic career while still studying at the London College of Fashion. Headhunted by Melody Maker, she worked there for several years before joining Bizarre magazine. Her novels are The Not Knowing, The Singer, and Bad Penny Blues. She lives in London.

Sinister forces are out to stop Sean Ward discovering the truth about a notorious child-killer

Twenty years ago, a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl named Corrine Woodrow was convicted of murdering one of her classmates, but now new forensic evidence indicates that she didn’t act alone. So Sean Ward – a private investigator whose promising career in the Met was cut short by a teenage drug dealer with an automatic weapon – travels to the seaside town of Ernemouth, to discover what really happened all those years ago.

In order to get to the truth, he has to take on retired Detective Inspector Len Rivett – the man who headed up the original case – as well as an entire town that has always known how to look after its own.

‘The First Lady of Noir Fiction’ David Peace

‘One of Britain’s most potent writers’ The Times

‘A tour de force’ Guardian

Weirdo Cathi Unsworth

Crime Fiction£11.99Demy Trade Paperback416ppISBN: 9781846687921eISBN: 9781847658494JulyWorld

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Albert of Adelaide Howard Anderson

A glorious romp of a novel, Albert of Adelaide is a story of friendship, loyalty, heroism . . . and marsupials

Albert is a duck-billed platypus on a quest. He has escaped from a zoo in Adelaide to look for somewhere that may or may not exist. Old Australia is a place where humans never venture and animals still rule, and so Albert is lured by the promise of freedom in a land of plenty.

Albert’s heard it’s somewhere in the middle of the outback – not the ideal habitat for a water-loving animal – but now he’s lost and close to death. Things are looking bad for him until Jack, a pyromaniac, sardine-loving wombat, comes along. And that’s just the beginning of Albert’s adventure.

A genuinely distinctive first novel: Watership Down meets True Grit

An international phenomenon published simultaneously in Australia, US, UK and Europe

Film rights already sold

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Howard Anderson flew with a helicopter battalion in Vietnam, worked on fishing boats in Alaska, in the steel mills of Pittsburgh, as a truck driver in Houston, and was a scriptwriter in Hollywood. He is currently a district attorney in New Mexico, where he defends Mexican nationals. Albert of Adelaide is his first novel. He has never lived in Australia.

Fiction£11.99Demy Trade Paperback240ppISBN: 9781846688409eISBN: 9781847657886JulyUK Com ex Can, ANZ

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New TitleSila’s Fortune Fabrice Humbert

An attack on an immigrant waiter exposes the prejudice of France today

Paris, 1995. In a luxury restaurant, a waiter is violently attacked by a diner. No one moves. Not the couple close by, nor the wife of the aggressor, nor the two young traders celebrating their first jobs.

All events have consequences. And on this occasion, the brutality, indifference or cowardice of those present will signal the beginning of their respective downfalls. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the financial crash of 2008, the witnesses’ destinies are woven into a web of responsibility. At the web’s centre is Sila, the floored immigrant who refuses to be a victim.

Fiction£11.99Demy Hardback288ppISBN: 9781846688249eISBN: 9781847658487DecemberWEL

‘Sila’s Fortune is a book for our time . . . extraordinary, beautiful, inspiring, sad’ Lire

‘One of the jewels of this year’ L’Express

Fabrice Humbert teaches literature at a lycée near Paris. Published in France in 2009, The Origin of Violence won the first ever French Prix Orange and in 2010 the Prix Renaudot. His subsequent novel, Sila's Fortune won the Prix Jean Jacques Rousseau.

The violence of Nazi Germany has explosive reverberations in contemporary life

During a school trip to Buchenwald concentration camp, a young French teacher comes across a photograph taken in the camp in 1941, of a prisoner whose resemblance to his own father is uncanny. However, the man has a different name and died in 1942.

Returning to France, the teacher finds that the memory of the photograph haunts him. His search for its subject takes him into the dark heart of his own family. The Origin of Violence is a virtuoso performance that asks urgent questions of the modern world.

Highly intelligent and moving . . . a novel of rare scope, substance and strength’ Alan Massie, Scotsman

‘Beautifully written’ Herald

‘Convincing and poignant’ Jewish Quarterly

The Origin of Violence Fabrice Humbert

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Fiction£8.99B Format Paperback304ppISBN: 9781846687518eISBN: 9781847656476DecemberWEL

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Peace, Love & PotatoesJohn Hegley

A brand new collection from one of Britain’s best loved writers

This all-new volume by the inimitable poet, comedian and performer John Hegley brings together poetry, prose and drawings on the themes closest to his heart. Contemplating subjects from painting, France, and family to Daleks, wheelbarrows, bus drivers (and of course potatoes), these pieces are by turns funny, moving, thought-provoking – and always brilliantly original.

Peace, Love & Potatoes opens a new window onto John Hegley’s unique and vivid imagination, and is certain to delight fans old and new.

‘John Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils’ Observer

‘Comedy’s poet laureate’ Independent

‘Consistently plain-speaking yet metaphysical, mordant yet mellifluous, experimental yet traditional’ Daily Telegraph

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John Hegley performs live in venues all over Britain. He appears on television and radio and his poems have been featured regularly in the Guardian. He has published numerous volumes of poetry, including Uncut Confetti and The Sound of Paint Drying.

Poetry/Humour£9.99B Format Paperback96ppISBN: 9781846688980eISBN: 9781847658739OctoberUK Com ex Can

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Roger Smith was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now lives in Thailand. A screenwriter, producer and director, his award-winning first thriller, Mixed Blood, was published in six countries. Both Mixed Blood and his second book, Wake Up Dead, are currently in development as feature films.

The truth is just the lie you believe the most

Nick is the man who has it all – or so it seems on the surface. But that can change in a second: his young daughter wants his attention but he’s talking to a friend, so she decides to rescue her toy boat from the water herself. Vernon sees her slip and fall, but chooses to do nothing – until it’s too late. An ex-cop, now a security guard, Vernon promises to help Nick, but Vernon is really only thinking of himself, and Nick doesn’t realise until he’s in too deep to get out.

Taut and uncompromising, Capture is the story of three lives and the single event that brings them together. It’s also a stark reminder that, sometimes, one moment is all it takes . . .

UK publication scheduled 2013

‘Roger Smith writes with the brutal beauty of Elmore Leonard in a very bad mood’ Washington Post

‘Fans of David Simon will love it’ Guardian

‘Fast and furious, full of blood and vengeance’ Sunday Times

Capture Roger Smith

New Title – Export Edition

Crime Fiction £12.99Royal Trade Paperback256ppISBN: 9781781250020eISBN: 9781847658395AugustWorld ex USA, Can

Half Blood Blues Esi Edugyan

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011

1940. In the aftermath of the fall of Paris, Hieronymus Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, is arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. A German citizen. And he is black.

Fifty years later, Sid – Hiero’s bandmate and the only witness that day – is going back to Berlin, where they first met. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there’s more to the journey when Chip shares a mysterious letter, bringing to the surface secrets buried since Hiero’s fate was settled.

In Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan weaves the horror of betrayal, the burden of loyalty and the possibility that, if you don't tell your story, someone else might tell it for you. And they just might tell it wrong ...

‘A thrilling story of truth and betrayal’ The Times

‘Compelling, personal and authentic’ Observer

‘Ingenious’ Daily Telegraph

‘Timeless’ Daily Mail

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Esi Edugyan has degrees from the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University. Her debut novel, written when she was twenty-five, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, was published internationally. She currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia. www.esiedugyan.com

Fiction£7.99B Format Paperback352ppISBN: 9781846687761eISBN: 9781847656568FebruaryWorld ex USA, Can

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Gabriel Chevallier wrote Clochemerle, which was translated into twenty-six languages and sold several million copies. Chevallier was called up at the start of World War I and wounded a year later, but returned to the front. Fear, first published in 1930, draws on his experiences. He died in 1969.

A rediscovered – and controversial – classic of war literature

It is 1915. Jean Dartemont is just a young man. He is not a rebel, but neither is he awed by authority and when he’s called up and given only the most rudimentary training, he refuses to follow his platoon. Instead, he is sent to Artois, where he experiences the relentless death and violence of the trenches. His reprieve finally comes when he is wounded, evacuated and hospitalised.

First published in 1930, Fear is both graphic and clear-eyed in its depiction of the terrible experiences of soldiers during the Great War.

With an introduction by John Berger

‘Chevallier’s pen is as sharp as a bayonet’ Herald

‘Flashes of intense colour and incident’ Sunday Telegraph

‘A work of great intensity, comparable to such great masterpieces of the period as Henri Barbusse’s Under Fire’ Daily Mail

FearGabriel Chevallier

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Fiction£8.99B Format Paperback320ppISBN: 9781846687273eISBN: 9781847656438NovemberWEL ex USA, Can

The Cold Cold Ground Adrian McKinty

For Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy, the troubles are only just beginning . . .

Spring 1981. Newly promoted and posted to Carrickfergus CID, Detective Sergeant Duffy has hardly had a chance to unpack when he’s landed with two very different cases: what may be Northern Ireland’s first ever serial killer and a young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder.

It’s no easy job – especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA, but last seen talking to one of their sworn enemies in the UVF. For Duffy, though, there’s no question of which side he’s on – because as a Catholic policeman, nobody trusts him.

‘If Raymond Chandler had grown up in Northern Ireland, The Cold Cold Ground is what he would have written’ The Times

‘A cut above the rest’ Guardian

‘Told with style, courage and dark-as-night wit’ Stuart Neville

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Adrian McKinty grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. His debut Dead I Well May Be was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, while Fifty Grand won the 2010 Spinetingler Award and was longlisted for the 2011 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Adrian lives in Melbourne, Australia with his family.

Crime Fiction£7.99B Format Paperback352ppISBN: 9781846688232eISBN: 9781847657954JulyWorld

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Padgett Powell is a novelist who has taught writing at the University of Florida for twenty-five years. His books include his dazzling first novel Edisto and most recently The Interrogative Mood.

Described as ‘Waiting for Godot on acid’, this radiant novel will take you on a tantalising journey into the subconscious

You & I is a conversation, apparently on a porch, between two men who may be difficult to grasp. They move together in aimless, convenient debate, coming to conclusions that don’t conclude but to positions that may not finally be so aimless. They disagree to agree. They are smart, not smart; fools, not fools.

Poignant, hilarious, opaque, diamond-clear, this strange little gem is sure to delight the thousands of devotees found by Powell's The Interrogative Mood.

‘A literary high-wire act, kept aloft by Powell’s unerring sense of rhythm’ Guardian

‘Utterly intriguing’ Grazia

‘A master of voice, a generator of absolutely particular, original, hilarious human sounds’ New York Times

You & I Padgett Powell

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Fiction£7.99B Format Paperback192ppISBN: 9781846688171eISBN: 9781847657930NovemberWEL ex USA, Can

Edisto Padgett Powell

A classic coming of age novel with a unique and memorable hero

Simons Everson Manigault (‘You say it “Simmons”. I’m a rare one-m Simons’) lives with his mother, an eccentric professor known as the Duchess, on an isolated strip of South Carolina coast. Convinced that her son can be a writer of genius, the Duchess has immersed Simons in the literary classics since birth.

Although possessed of a vocabulary and sophistication beyond his years, Simons feels the normal adolescent bewilderment about the behaviour of his parents. His father, the Progenitor, has recently left the family in a dispute over Simons’ upbringing, so the Duchess brings in Taurus, an enigmatic father-surrogate who tutors the boy in the art of watching the world without presumption.

‘A remarkable book’ Los Angeles Times

‘Line for line, the best first novel I’ve ever read’Pete Dexter, author of Paris Trout

‘An exotic dash of Flannery O’Connor, an echo of Tennessee Williams, a faint whiff of Truman Capote, and a lot of originality’ People

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Fiction£7.99B Format Trade Paperback192ppISBN: 9781846688126eISBN: 9781847657756NovemberWEL ex USA, Can

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It is twenty-eight years since Leaf Fielding was released from prison. He has been a teacher in Spain and a philanthropist, setting up a home for orphans in Malawi. He now sells organic produce in the Pyrenees in south-west France.

Caught by Operation Julie – Britain’s biggest ever drugs bust

Leaf Fielding was arrested in a pre-dawn raid in 1977 for his part in the acid consipracy ended by Operation Julie. The work of eleven police forces, it resulted in the break-up of one of the largest LSD cooperatives in the world, the arrest of 120 people and, according to reports, the seizure of six million trips’ worth of LSD crystal, valued at £100 million. Overnight, the price of a tab went from £1 to £5.

Tried, convicted and sent to jail, Fielding describes how he ended up there. Acid transformed him, taking him on adventures across Europe, Asia and on to the edge of the known universe. It also led inexorably to his downfall. This is the first account of Operation Julie told by someone on the inside.

‘This book is fucking good’ Howard Marks

‘Dramatic . . . A compelling read’ Independent on Sunday

‘Barely a page I couldn’t imagine vividly, as if this were a movie’ William Leith, Observer

To Live Outside the Law Leaf Fielding

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Memoir£8.99B Format Paperback304ppISBN: 9781846687976eISBN: 9781847657619JulyWorld

Black by Design Pauline Black

A memoir of race, roots and music, from The Selecter’s lead singer

Born in 1953 to Anglo-Jewish/Nigerian parents, Pauline Black was adopted by a white, working class family in Romford. Never quite at home there, she escaped her small town background and discovered a different way of life - making music.

Lead singer for platinum-selling band The Selecter, Black was the Queen of British Ska, touring with The Specials, Madness and Dexy’s Midnight Runners. From childhood to fame, from adoption to her recent search for her birth parents, Black By Design is a funny and enlightening story of music, race, family and roots.

Includes a new chapter on The Selecter’s 2011 tour

‘Gritty, witty and compelling’ Elle

‘Intelligent and affecting’ Independent

‘A brave, intelligent woman’s struggle to make sense of the world around her’ Mojo

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Pauline Black is the lead singer of seminal 2-Tone band The Selecter. She is also an actress on television and in theatre, appearing in dramas such as The Vice, The Bill, Hearts and Minds and 2000 Acres of Sky. She won the 1991 Time Out award for Best Actress, for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in the play All or Nothing At All.

Memoir£8.99B Format Paperback400ppISBN: 9781846687914eISBN: 9781847657626JulyWorld

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The Grief of Others Leah Hager Cohen

Leah Hager Cohen is the author of four non-fiction books and three novels, most recently House Lights. The New York Times has named four of her books ‘Notable Books of the Year’. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

Fiction£12.99Royal Trade Paperback384ppISBN: 9781846686269eISBN: 9781847658326MarchUK Com ex Can

Is keeping a secret in a marriage an act of infidelity?

The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. In the aftermath, long-suppressed uncertainties about their relationship come roiling to the surface. A dreadful secret emerges with reverberations that threaten their future.

Moving, psychologically acute and gorgeously written, The Grief of Others shows how one family, by finally allowing itself to experience the shared quality of grief, is able to rekindle tenderness and hope.

An Oprah pick and a New York Times Notable Book

‘An engrossing and revealing look at a family sinking beneath the weight of a terrible secret. Leah Hager Cohen writes about difficult subjects with unfailing compassion and insight’ Tom Perrotta

‘Shows the maddening arithmetic of marriage’ New York Times

The Clerkenwell Press

He was alive in the world for fifty seven hours. She would let no one else hold him, not even the

baby’s father, who asked only once and then, with great and terrible chivalry,

pressed her no further.

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Wall of Days Alastair Bruce

Alastair Bruce studied at the University of Cape Town where he started a science degree course but ended with a masters in English Literature. He has lived in the United Kingdom for over ten years where he works in electronic publishing. He is married and has a baby daughter.

Fiction£7.99B Format Paperback240ppISBN: 9781846688010eISBN: 9781847657701JulyUK Com ex Can, SA

A stunning novel of guilt, loss and remembering

In a world all but drowned, a man called Bran has been living on an island for ten years. He was sent there in exile, and he tallies the days on the wall of his cave. Until something happens that kindles in Bran such memories and longing that he decides to return, even if it means death.

His reception is so unexpected, so mystifying that he casts about, unsure of what is real and what imaginary. Only the friendship of a child anchors him as he retraces the terrible deeds for which he is answerable, and as he tries to reach back, past his biggest betrayal, to the one he loved.

‘Both ambitious and hugely readable’ Independent

‘Bruce’s exceptional novel has echoes of JM Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians’ Financial Times

‘Riveting and overwhelming’ André Brink

The Clerkenwell PressDisaster Was My God Bruce Duffy

The scandalous life of the pioneering poet Arthur Rimbaud

In the space of one year, 1871, Arthur Rimbaud transformed himself from a teenage bumpkin into the literary sensation of Paris. Then, just shy of his twentieth birthday, Rimbaud declared himself finished with literature. In time, he became a prosperous trader and arms dealer in Ethiopia. But a cancerous leg forced him to return to France. He died aged thirty-seven.

Bruce Duffy takes the bare facts of Rimbaud’s fascinating existence and brings them vividly to life in a story rich with people, places and paradox.

The Clerkenwell Press

Bruce Duffy is the author of The World As I Found It, a fictional life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Last Comes The Egg. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Fiction£8.99B Format Paperback384ppISBN: 9781846685286eISBN: 9781846680014NovemberUK Com ex Can

‘Wit, panache and page-turning invention’ Sunday Telegraph

‘It’s fun to hang around with Rimbaud and Verlaine without getting shot’ New York Times

‘Wonderful and wise’ Time Out

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