Unbound imprint: 195 books

Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018. Tom Cox has 70k followers on Twitter and 25k on Instagram. He is also the man behind the enormously popular Why My Cat is Sad account, which has 300k followers. He is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Good, the...

This will be the definitive anthology of the movement that catalysed next year’s momentous referendum. Incredible list of contributors including Lisa McInerney, Anne Enright, Louise O’Neill and Caitlin Moran. Una and many of the contributors work in the press and will generate...

For fans of Joe Abercrombie’s multi-million selling Shattered Sea series, Joanne Harris’s Runelight series, Giles Kristian’s Raven series. The novel combines the richness of Norse cultural detail with a timeless and gripping coming-of-age story. The first in a trilogy of Viking fantasy novels to be published by Unbound. The sequel, Obsidian, is forthcoming in spring 2019.

The fascinating untold history of a creative community that shaped our idea of what video games can be, according to those who were at its epicentre: The Social Network meets Stephen Howlett’s Diary of an 80s Computer Geek.  There is an appetite for illustrated books about gaming’s past: Stuart...

Work. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. Work. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. Work. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. Have you ever sat at your desk and asked yourself, why am I here?  Is this really all there is? Believe me, it isn't. Over the past three decades, my generation created the enormous machines...

It’s 1983. Convent-educated teenager Gail dyes her hair blue and escapes suburban boredom in Surrey to live a more exciting life among the colourful punks and squatters of London. Leaving behind the twitching net curtains and disapproving looks of beige Morden (A.K.A. Bore-don), Gail places...

A champion of women's rights, racial equality, scientific progress, economic fairness and cooperatives, Harriet Martineau’s popular and influential writing on political and economic issues led to fame across Europe and America in the 1830s. The first female journalist and a founder of sociology...

In a quiet corner of England, a young boy visits the cinema for the first time. Overwhelmed by the experience, he returns to see a movie which will ignite his imagination, fill his head with fantasy and change the course of his life. That enthusiasm carries him though to his adolescence, when...

A saint is crucified on the same Mediterranean island where, centuries later, a Japanese soprano recovers her lost voice. Youths throw a rock through a car windscreen in urban Accra, and a woman sees this as a sign she will never reproduce. A murderer escapes across the Sydney suburbs, bringing together...

When 12-year-old Krish finds out his mum is dying, he is desperate to give her more time to live. This leads to a deal with a devil-like creature to travel to another realm, Ilir, and collect the Myrthali - the essence of time itself. Ilir is a tiny desert world where the days are a handful...

‘I’m working on a novel intended to express the feel of England in Edward III’s time ... The fourteenth century of my novel will be mainly evoked in terms of smell and visceral feelings, and it will carry an undertone of general disgust rather than hey-nonny nostalgia’ – Anthony Burgess,...

Dan Matlock is out of jail. He’s got a choice. Stay or leave. Go back to where it all went wrong, or just get out of the county. Disappear. Start again as someone else. But it’s not as simple as that.  There’s the matter of the man he killed. It wasn’t murder, but even so. You tell...

Imagine a piece of technology so valuable that it turns the world's two most powerful lobbies – the oil industry and the arms trade – against one another. Yavlinsky, a brilliant Russian scientist has created a piece of wonder-technology; a drilling process that uses the forces of supercavitation....

Lucy Crehan is a respected teacher, education consultant and researcher who wrote a 40,000 word report on global teacher career structures for UNESCO. Education policy is a timeless and constantly debated topic in the UK and abroad. This is an impeccably researched and documented exploration...