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Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.' At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her last 9 ...Show more
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
$17.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thriller | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Aimee Joubert is a drop-dead gorgeous femme fatale with a penchant for bloody murder. Ever on the lookout for opportunities for self-enrichment, she finds plenty to like as a newcomer to the detestable backwater town of Bleville: small-minded parochialism, self-interested parish politics, rampant corrup ...Show more
Ocean of Sound - Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds by David Toop
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
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 Javanese m ...Show more
Quicksand & Passing by Nella Larsen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
A writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen wrote just two novels, published here, and a handful of short stories. Critically acclaimed, both speak powerfully of the contradictions and restrictions experienced by black women at that time. Quicksand, written in 1928, is an autobiographical novel abo ...Show more
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
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