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Serpent's Tail invite your reading group to celebrate their 30th birthday!

Independent publisher Serpent’s Tail turns 30 this year and to celebrate, we are inviting reading groups to join in the party!

We have 10 exclusive party packs and reading group sets of 10 different Serpent’s Tail titles to give away to reading groups to throw your own celebration. All parties should take place in May.

Each pack will contain:

  • 10 x copies of one title
  • 15 x bookmarks
  • 15 x questionnaires for each member to return
  • Cocktail recipe
  • Party playlist
  • Jelly snakes
  • Badges
  • Decorations
  • Letter from publisher
  • 30th birthday zine
  • Cocktail ingredients

If your reading group would like to help Serpent’s Tail celebrate their 30th birthday please login below and sign up by 20 March.

Read more about the titles on offer and find out more about Serpent’s Tail with our interview with publisher Hannah Westland

About Serpent’s Tail

Serpent’s Tail’s list today has on it, Orange-prize winner We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, two Booker shortlistees including Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, three Nobel Prize winners and an impressive Classics series with works by David Gates and Nella Larsen.

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