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Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. Christmas bombs and Lord Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Eddie ...Show more
Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'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 beau ...Show more
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Controversial, modern, and unafraid to look the reader straight in the eye, "Serpent's Tail Classics" are books for life. This is the most famous work by Nobel Prize winning author - now a "Serpent's Tail Classic". A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, "The Piano Teacher" is one of the grea ...Show more
The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe; John Bester (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone fo ...Show more
The Warriors by Sol Yurick
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
The extraordinary novel that became the legendary cult movie.
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering 1980s. Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other ...Show more
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq; Paul Hammond (Translator); Toby Litt (Introduction by)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."--Booklist "This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."--The Washington Post Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and ...Show more
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bu ...Show more