Unbound: 203 books

Windsor Castle. 1714. Queen Anne is nearing the end of a life filled with tragedy and grief: plagued by illness and cursed by her father to lose all 17 of her children, she now lies dying with no living heir. The question of succession is thick in the air. Will it be James Stuart, the half-brother...

True creativity, the making of a thing which has not been in the world previously, is originality by definition. But while many claim to crave originality, they feel an obscure revulsion when confronted with it. The really new is uncomfortable and disturbing. Repetition of the familiar is preferred....

‘No one in this city has believed in me for two thousand years. I’m unknown and unloved. And I’m very, very ill.’ He sighed, and the sound chilled her blood. ‘Give me your hand.’ Dionysus, god of wine and divine ecstasy, is reborn in modern Rome. He doesn’t understand how or why...

'Dark and hilarious ... these stories are as full of wit as they are of warnings' Cosmopolitan 'Funny, sad, fiercely feminist and completely brilliant' Tatler Tales from the happily never after At a wedding, one woman’s revenge comes in the shape of her heavily pregnant belly....

A poignant debut novel, beautifully written, which explores truth and friendship through one man’s journey towards self-discovery. For fans of Alan Hollinghurst, Paul Bailey, Edmund White and David Leavitt.

‘If you know me at all, you will know me as a liar.’ Kevin Carver is a household name. A popular TV soap star, he’s coasting through life in the same semi-detached, slightly smug way he’s always done. But when he callously dumps his much younger girlfriend Jade over supper one...

Jacky is a translator. He’s a bit of an eccentric. And he can’t quite understand why the alluring and beautiful girl at the bar wants to talk to him. Even more perplexing is the tattered book she carries with her but won’t let him touch. Written in an indecipherable language—even for...

The year is 2089, and technologists have developed a system for remotely tapping into the optic and auditory nerves of all humans. Everything that people see and hear is detected and published publicly online; nothing can be secret. It is the ultimate surveillance society. After the devastating Times...

A story about a family torn apart by obsession and the need to rebel against a violent regime, set in a broken, dystopian Britain

A young woman walks alone through a barren landscape in a time before history, a time of cataclysmic natural change. She is cold, hungry and with child but not without hope or resources. A skilful hunter, she draws on her intuitive understanding of how to stay alive… and knows that she must survive. In...

Penny Pepper has led an extraordinary life. She is a writer, an activist, a punk pioneer. She also happens to be disabled. In her absorbing memoir, Penny paints a raucous picture of life, love, music and misadventure, from Thatcher’s battleground of the mid-1980s through to the early Blair years. Craving...

'This book will help so many people' Positive Fertility An Outdoor Swimming Society Book of the Year 2018 After a decade of trying and failing to become a mother, Jessica Hepburn knew it was time to do something different. So she decided to swim twenty-one miles across the English Channel...

The book found success in the US in an edition published by Chelsea Green under the title Gods, Wasps and Stranglers: it was featured in The New Yorker. For fans of Anna Pavord's The Tulip, Mark Kurlansky's *Cod *and Salt, Yuval Noah Harari's *Sapiens *and Marcus Chown's What a Wonderful World. Features twenty original illustrations hand-drawn by the author.

A funny, irreverent take on the cancer memoir that combines painful insight with the ability to find humour in the darkest corners of illness and addiction, as explored recently by Amy Liptrot (The Outrun), Marion Coutts (The Iceberg) and Jenny Diski (In Gratitude). Raz Shaw is an accomplished...