Unbound imprint: 195 books

Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and...

Many of us think of the ill-behaved celebrity and the tabloid splash as modern inventions, but the antics of footballers and soap stars are as nothing when set alongside the hell-raising of the 18th century celebs. The Gin Lane Gazette is stuffed with true stories of boozy MPs who settled their...

The novel’s dystopia is striking because it seems frighteningly possible, just a few steps removed from the bureaucracy depicted in Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake. It is playful and gripping, comic and biting all at once: Black Mirror meets Leni Zumas’ *Red Clocks *via Orwell's 1984. The...

Alexander McCall Smith meets David Nobbs. A refreshingly farcical spin on the lady detective/murder mystery genre, the worlds of classic detective fiction and real-life homicide investigation crash together in this hilarious, parochial British village comedy. For Miss Marple fans with a dark sense of humour.

How do you feel about your phone? Or your car? You probably don't think about them much, except when they go wrong. But what if they go really wrong and turn properly bad – evil, even? Join Terry Jones on a hilariously disturbing journey into the dark heart of machines that go wrong: meet...

Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty sales & marketing years constructing sixty films, two novels and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of them, from natural landscapes to man-made buildings and 'the gaps between them',...

Bent Met police detective DI Frederick Street rules as the ‘Sheriff of Shoreditch’ who loves shaking down the street goons he arrests. Elvis Street is the son who cannot stand his father for being the balls-out crook he caught in bed with his girl. Elvis wants to take Frederick down...

Marie’s first novel, Gods Behaving Badly (2007), has sold over 40,000 copies worldwide. Her second novel, The Table of Less Valued Knights (2015), was longlisted for the Baileys Prize. A raucous, irreverent spin on the recent spate of Shakespeare reinterpretations: Margaret...

It was 1989 when Robert Llewellyn first had his head encased in the one-piece latex foam-rubber balaclava that is the head of Kryten in Red Dwarf series three, and it gave him a distinctly funny turn. Gazing at his own reflection and seeing the face of a mechanoid robot staring back was surprisingly...

Do you, Edna Constance Bathsheba, take Stephen John Elvis to be your lawfully wedded husband? I did. After many, many years of marriage and many, many children, I've decided it's only fair to share my unparalleled expertise and deepest secrets with you in my new book, How To Have an Almost...

‘I adore Meades’s book . . . I want more of his rule-breaking irreverence in my kitchen.’ New York Times ‘The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is hilariously grumpy, muttering at us “Don’t you bastards know anything?” You can read it purely for literary pleasure, but Jonathan Meades...

A highly practical but also readable book for allotment owners and people who want to feel closer to nature. Distinctly British, it mixes folklore with foraging for a contemporary, non-superstitious audience. A beautifully designed gift book, heavily illustrated with black-and-white...

This the story of how, over the course of a year, Alys, the Guardian gardening writer, learns how to keep bees; and Steve, the urban beekeeper, learns how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Part beautifully designed coffee-table book, part manifesto, this collection of engaging letters,...

Summer 1867: four-year-old Daisy Belle is about to make her debut at the Lambeth Baths in London. Her father, swimming professor Jeffrey Belle, is introducing his Family of Frogs - and Daisy is the star attraction. By the end of that day, she has only one ambition in life: she will be the greatest...