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@MyBiggestLuke

MY BIGGEST LIE is narrated by a dishonest editor, who bears no resemblance to this one. Last novel THEFT: https://teapaw.org/t.co/ALxGHx9yHS Teaching @OfficialUoM

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Joined April 2009
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I wrote a long read for the Guardian about my hometown, Fleetwood. theguardian.com/society/2020…
Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is hanging on

Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is hanging on

The long read: When I grew up there, Fleetwood was a tough but proud fishing port. It’s taken some knocks in the years since, but not everyone has given up on it

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This will be the best novel published this year telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t…
An eerie tale about our impending doom, plus the best novels of June

An eerie tale about our impending doom, plus the best novels of June

From a thrilling, seven-part epic to a compelling new novel set off the coast of Naples, our critics review June’s latest fiction

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Incredibly good book this by @nicolaspadamsee. Highly recommend
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I am no longer working for Serpent's Tail. Got a great card yesterday
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My thoughts exactly on this brilliant Houellebecquian novel I wanted to publish theguardian.com/books/articl…
Bonding by Mariel Franklin review – a comprehensive vision of a devastated society

Bonding by Mariel Franklin review – a comprehensive vision of a devastated society

Populated by tech and pharma hustlers, this bold and highly impressive debut novel has its thumb right over the sore spots of modern life

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Serpent’s Tail’s Publishing Director, @MyBiggestLuke, on ENGLAND IS MINE ⚡️
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This is a delicious novel we're publishing next month: funny, embittered, clever, stylish, Moore-ish - all the best qualities granta.com/the-material/
The Material | Camille Bordas | Granta

The Material | Camille Bordas | Granta

‘Rehearsing in front of the mirror was for actors, according to them, not comedians. It was for vain people. A good comedian was the opposite of vain, they said.’ Fiction by Camille Bordas.

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A playlist of songs that inspired ENGLAND IS MINE, featuring @petedoherty @arloparks @ghostpoet @FatWhiteFamily @itsaziya and more 🎶 open.spotify.com/playlist/34…
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Launched today, the British debut of the year so far, in my unbiased opinion - congratulations @nicolaspadamsee for his extraordinary ENGLAND IS MINE serpentstail.com/2024/04/08/…. If you're in London come and party with us tonight at @BurleyFisher
Q&A with Nicolas Padamsee - Serpent's Tail

Q&A with Nicolas Padamsee - Serpent's Tail

Nicolas Padamsee is the author of England is Mine (Serpent’s Tail, 2024), an Observer best debut novel 2024. It’s the story of David and Hassan, two second-generation immigrants struggling for a...

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15 years dreaming of this day 🥹
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15 years dreaming of this day 🥹
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On tour: @nicolaspadamsee with guest appearances from me on first three dates and also @keirangoddard1 in Manchester
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Amazing New Yorker review of Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman, out here with Serpent's Tail on Thursday, and one of the best novels you can read this year: newyorker.com/books/under-re…
A Novelist of Privileged Youth Finds a New Subject

A Novelist of Privileged Youth Finds a New Subject

In “Help Wanted,” Adelle Waldman turns her lens from literary Brooklyn to retail work.

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Copies have arrived! England Is Mine by @nicolaspadamsee, featured in the Observer's 2024 Best Debuts, an empathetic novel exploring the complexities behind online radicalisation and the roads to extremism in a polarised and unequal society. Out in April: serpentstail.com/work/englan…
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Copies in of @nicolaspadamsee 's Observer Debut of the Year, ENGLAND IS MINE. Launched 11 April at @BurleyFisher. Hit me and @RobertGreer90 up if you'd like to review
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Reading “England is Mine” by @nicolaspadamsee It’s a really heartbreaking story…
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Excited to see England Is Mine by @nicolaspadamsee here, publishing in April with @serpentstail, & recently described by Monica Ali as 'a brilliant dissection of race, identity, masculinity and extremism': serpentstail.com/work/englan…

England is Mine - Serpent's Tail

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Maggie Shipstead is a fan of Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman: 'I've never read anything quite like it' @shipstead instagram.com/p/CzMwfbgygJg/…
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BIG book coming 21 March
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.@serpentstail has snapped up Help Wanted by @adellewaldman, the second novel by the author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P (@cstone_press). Read more 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/ser…

Serpent’s Tail snares Waldman's second novel, Help Wanted

Serpent’s Tail has snapped up Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman, the second novel by the author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P (Cornerstone).

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Happy #LancashireDay @mybiggestluke🌹📖 #Lancashire
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Next week! Join us at @bookhive in Norwich for the launch of @juliannepachico's brilliant new novel Jungle House, published this month by @serpentstail: thebookhive.co.uk/event/juli…
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