Serpent S Tail imprint: 83 books
by Catherine Millet
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
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...
Gentleman Jack
A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack
Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid them behind a fake panel in his ancestral home. Anne Lister was a Regency landowner, an intrepid...
Get a Life
The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Vivienne Westwood began Get A Life, her online diary, in 2010 with an impassioned post about Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Since then, she has written two or three entries each month, discussing her life in fashion and her involvement with art, politics and the environment.
Reading...
The Look of Love
The Life and Times of Paul Raymond, Soho's King of Clubs
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
For almost forty years, Paul Raymond was one Britain's most scandalous celebrities. Best known as the owner of the world famous Raymond Revuebar, he was a successful theatre impresario, property magnate and porn baron.
With his pencil moustache, gold jewellery and taste for showgirls, Raymond...
by Alain Mabanckou
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Buttocks Man is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She's taken their daughter with her. Meanwhile, a racist neighbour spies on him something wicked, accusing...
A Rocket in My Pocket: The Hipster's Guide to Rockabilly Music
The Hipster's Guide to Rockabilly Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Rockabilly had its roots in country, blues, folk, hillbilly, R&B, boogie-woogie and most other indigenous Deep South forms of popular song that you could strum three chords along to or howl down a cheap microphone. It was young people's music, made almost entirely by the first wave of teenagers,...
Sounds Like London
100 Years of Black Music in the Capital
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home, music also has the power to shape communities in surprising ways.
Black music has been part of London's landscape since the First World War, when the Southern Syncopated Orchestra brought jazz...
Live At the Brixton Academy
A riotous life in the music business
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
In 1982, aged twenty-three, Simon Parkes paid £1 for a virtually derelict building in Brixton. Over the next fifteen years he turned it into Britain's most iconic music venue. And now he's telling his story: full of fond - and wild - reminiscences of the famous musicians who played at the venue,...
Ocean of Sound
Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson.
Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard...
Black by Design
A 2-Tone Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Born in 1953 to Anglo-Jewish/Nigerian parents, Pauline Black was subsequently 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...
Altered State
The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's euphoric escalation into commercial excess as...
by Neil Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
It is 3 a.m. in The City, and in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in the beginnings of a passionate and violent affair.
Boy: nineteen, beautiful, ready for anyone to take him home, and 'O': the Older Man, cynical, unpredictable, and at the mercy of his personal demons. Their romance...
In The Seventies
Adventures in the Counter-Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Beginning with the Weathermen explosion in Greenwich Village and ending with punk, the seventies was the age of extremes; sex, drugs and, of course, rock 'n' roll.
With an extraordinary cast of characters, and even more extraordinary anecdotes, In The Seventies tells, firsthand, the story -...
by Anne Peile
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
A secretive child by nature, Susanna makes a covert list of everything she knows about her absent father, determined that one day she will find him. Unable and unwilling to adapt to life in her mother's unsympathetic household, she distances herself as much as possible.When she finally discovers her...