Wydawnictwo Serpents

From the author ofBlack Rock, this explores the effect of violence on a family, and is set in Trinidad and England. Taps into Smyths own experiences of life on the...

Married to a great man, in love with a man like no other...When Charles Sainte-Beuve, a French journalist, met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But...

Outsourced is Zeltsermans most commercial book to date. A classic heist thriller pitched somewhere between Oceans Eleven and Dog Day Afternoon, its the story of a group of software engineers who lose their jobs due to an industry push to...

A standalone thriller from a writer on The Wire. Constantine is a drifter, and hitches a ride back to his home town with a little man named Polk. But when Polk needs to make a stop, it changes Constantines life...

Celias mother died bringing her into the world, so she lives with her aunt and her new husband. Celia doesnt trust him, and when shes proved right, she runs away to...

Devastated by a break-up, our unnamed Turkish tranvestite heroine swaps her catsuit for pyjamas and becomes a recluse. But her friends refuse to let her waste away in self-pity and drag her out to make up the numbers for a party. Theres serious...

Something very strange has been happening in Warchester, and local singer Rik Suntan is about to have his doors of perception blown wide open. It seems that during the 1970s, Jimmy Pages experiments with the occult wandered into the art of...

This extraordinary novel is based on a true story. In Auschwitz, Rudi Friemel is privileged. Hes given work as a car mechanic and his days are spent servicing the vehicles of the SS. When he petitions to be allowed to marry his love, Marga and make...

Paris Noir is a collection of new stories about the dark side of Paris, with contributions by leading French, British and American authors who have all either lived or spent a significant amount of time in Paris. Edited by Maxim Jakubowski, the...

The Beach on ice: deep powder, dead poets and moral free-fall in the death-sport capital of the world. Long-dead Lord Byron started it. He was the rock star of his age, but also a poet with about as much relevance to the blood grudge struggle that...

From Ancient Greece, via contemporary Britain, into the future, from childhood to old age and beyond, the stories in No More Angels capture the idiosyncrasies of modern life. A train ticket seller livens up his day by telling Lockerbie victims...

Mexican crime writer Taibo and a real-life spokesperson for the Zapatista movement, Subcomandante Marcos, provide alternating chapters for this postmodern comedic mystery about good, evil and modern revolutionary politics. Elías Contreras,...

Two men on opposite sides of a blurred line have more in common than they think. As a runaway Asian bride, her father-in-law and a psychotic Glaswegian immigration officer with a Yardie fixation bring them inexorably together, Harry and Sean have...

The festering racial tensions in a Tennessee backwater town come to a boil after a black grandmother is raped and shot by a gang of white teenagers. Only one man has the capacity to keep a lid on the mounting violence and thats the towns senior...

Saz Martin is settled into new motherhood with her partner Molly and their nine-month-old daughter Matilda. Things have not been easy since the birth - late nights, early mornings, and a sudden death have all taken their toll - but with Mollys return...

Long-time consumers of crime fiction are usually searching for something new -- theres nothing worse than realising that you have started to read something which is merely a re-warming of earlier themes and ideas. Such readers will be pleased by...