Serpent's Tail

The Reinvention of Love

By Helen Humphreys - Published 2012

Genres:

Literary

With The Reinvention of Love, award-winning Canadian poet and novelist Helen Humphreys has deftly married the elaborate, factual lives of French writer Victor ...Read Review

Half-Blood Blues

By Esi Edugyan - Published 2011

Genres:

Literary

Sid Griffiths is a “dependable” bass player who, with his old neighborhood friend Chip Jones from Baltimore, was part of a jazz band ...Read Review

The Mistress of Nothing

By Kate Pullinger - Published 2010Published 2011

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Sally Naldrett is lady’s maid to Lady Duff Gordon, who suffers from terrible fits of coughing. Sally and her mistress spend the ...Read Review

Nights Beneath the Nation

By Denis Kehoe - Published 2010

Genres:

Epic

Told in the first person, this novel, part gay love story and part mystery, just misses being very good. It is beautifully, even ...Read Review

Artemisia

By Anna Banti - Published 2003Published 2004

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

You know you’re in for a complicated novel when the author writes a foreword, someone else (Susan Sontag) writes an introduction, and ...Read Review