Unbound: 203 books
Academia Obscura
The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Academia Obscura has 129k Twitter followers.
The hardback edition (2017) sold over 5,000 copies.
This is a perfect gift book for anyone currently in higher education... or who has ever liked a cat video on the internet. for fans of the QI Book of General **Ignorance, Schott’s Original Miscellany, The Book of Lists, Randall Munroe.
by Niall Slater
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Daedalus Mole wants to make the best of a bad situation.
The plan: fly his unwanted passenger, Erin, to her destination, squeeze her for every last penny, then immediately find refuge in the nearest pub. Unfortunately, when the galaxy is on the verge of economic collapse and your passenger...
House of Fiction
From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
From the gothic fantasies of Walpole’s Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors’ personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of...
by Alice Jolly
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019
'A lyrical tour de force' Guardian
Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019
2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy recommendation
If you tell a story oft enough
So it become true
As the nineteenth century draws towards a...
The Fall of the House of Murdoch
Fourteen Days That Ended a Media Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Structured around the fourteen days in 2011, from the moment the News of the World's hacking of the phone of a murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl was exposed, The Fall of the House of Murdoch is a riveting account of the scandal that closed the world's best-selling English-language newspaper, forced...
by Lucy Popescu
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
A Country of Refuge is a poignant, thought-provoking and timely anthology of writing on asylum seekers from some of Britain and Ireland’s most influential voices.
Compiled and edited by human rights activist and writer Lucy Popescu, this powerful collection of short fiction, memoir, poetry...
Annabel vs the Internet
The time I infiltrated Google HQ and other adventures
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Annabel Port has found herself in some bizarre and, let’s say, diverse situations. She’s sneaked around Google HQ in search of ball pools. She’s exhibited her own conceptual art at the Tate Modern (unofficially). She’s been a real-life shop mannequin at Mulberry.
There were the attempts...
by Matt Cain
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
'A trip down memory lane around the glorious streets of Bolton – a novel with a heart as big as Moss Bank Park' Sara Cox
‘A book for anybody who feels at all marginalised, small, bullied or lost’ Claudia Winkleman
'Fabulous Matt Cain and fabulous Madonna together at last – what...
by Timothy O'Grady
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Visit a place where your accent is an aphrodisiac, invites a Las Vegas tourist board ad on the London Underground. Just the right amount of wrong, offers another from The Cosmopolitan Hotel. Clearly, it works. Over forty million people a year travel to Vegas, more than to Mecca. It is a global celebrity,...
Ruth and Martin’s Album Club
Listen to a classic album you've never heard before. Now write about it.
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The concept behind Ruth and Martin’s Album Club is simple: make people listen to a classic album they’ve never heard, then ask them to review it.
Compiled here are the blog’s greatest hits, as well as some new and exclusive material, each entry boasting a comprehensive introduction by...
by Amy Kean, J. Milton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This is the story of a brave young girl, Elodie-Rose, who one day decides to change the world and keep all her fucks in her basket. Wait a minute. You’re confused. What are fucks, you ask? It’s quite simple, really. Fucks are her self-esteem; all the happy, sad and wonderful thoughts that sit...
Take Pride: How to Build Organisational Success Through People
How to Build Organisational Success Through People
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
In the UK, only one in three employees say they love their jobs and as many don’t give a damn. Sheila Parry, strategic communications consultant to some of the world's best-known brands, aims to change that. This book launches her PRIDE model, a methodology based around five key motivators: Purpose,...
by Raymond Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
From Raymond Briggs, the beloved and bestselling author of The Snowman, comes his first book in a decade, now in an updated edition with new columns and illustrations.
Notes from the Sofa is a beautifully illustrated compilation of reflections on life and what it means to get older. Raymond...
Escape Everything!
Escape from work. Escape from consumerism. Escape from despair.
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
We are all trapped by modern life. Trapped! Trapped by work, consumerism, stress, debt, isolationism and general unhappiness.
We will each spend an average of 87,000 hours at work before we die. We will spend another 5,000 hours getting to and from work and countless more preparing for work....