Unbound: 203 books

Featured as one of the Guardian's Best Books of 2017, and *Q magazine's critics' picks for *December 2017. Tot Taylor embarked on a well-received tour of festivals and book shops in support of the hardback, including events at Port Eliot and End of the Road. His own career...

A literary biography uncovering the fascinating wartime story of the author’s great-grandfather, but also the stories of the artists who developed the art of camouflage during the Second World War. A story of love, art, loss and war in the time between the two great wars. Horlock’s first novel,...

Stewart Lee has seen a ghost but doesn’t believe in the afterlife. Rob Beckett can peel a banana with his feet. Viv Groskop gave birth to a baby next to a dishwasher. What do you get when you combine unknown facts about some of Britain’s best-lovedcomedians with their favourite one-liners...

Angel Dorothy is the inspiring biography of a formidable woman: wealthy American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst, who poured her considerable resources into founding Dartington Hall in 1925. What started as a progressive school rapidly transformed into a magnet for artists, architects, writers, philosophers...

Sarah Corbett is the founder of the Craftivist Collective and a vocal global advocate for the craftivism movement. This is Quiet by Susan Cain with added craft, for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic, Betsy Greer’s Knitting for Good, and Rozsika Parker’s The Subversive Stitch. A...

In 2016 two surprising explosions of popular contempt for the existing order drove Britain into Brexit and paved the way for Trump’s presidency of the United States. On both sides of the Atlantic, proud regimes with global pretensions were levelled by justifiable revolts. But in the name...

Can lollipops reduce antisocial behaviour? Could wizards prevent street gambling? Do fake bus stops protect pensioners? Can dog shows help reduce murder rates? Stevyn Colgan spent thirty years in the police service—twelve of them as part of the Problem Solving Unit, a special team with an...

Some of the pieces are brand new, some have been edited and published in publications such as GQ, The Times, Italian Vogue and The Big Issue, but all have never appeared before in this their original unadulterated form. In his 12 page interview with Chris Sullivan in April’s (2019) GQ magazine Dylan...

A German property developer revels in the belief he has discovered the key to unleashing the weapon responsible for sinking Atlantis. Dr John Hunter is the only archaeologist brave enough to risk all and validate the mysterious find. The decision leads the maverick academic on a journey from...

What happens when you leave city life and move to five acres on a hunch, with a husband who’s an aspiring alpaca-whisperer, and a feral cockerel for company? Can you eat the cockerel for dinner? Or has it got rigor mortis? In search of a good life and a slower pace, Fiona Stocker upped-sticks...

'No Slade = No Oasis. It's as devastating and as simple as that' Noel Gallagher With six consecutive number one singles and the smash hit ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’, Slade were unstoppable. Now, the man whose outlandish costumes and unmistakable hairstyle made Slade one of the definitive acts...

Laura Thompson’s grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to be given a publican’s licence in her own name and, just as pubs defined her life, she seemed in many ways to embody their essence. Laura spent part of her childhood in...

Since forming the seminal art rock band Throwing Muses while still in her teens, Kristin Hersh has been at the forefront of alternative music, acclaimed for her raw, visceral and poetic songwriting. Here, collected for the first time, are the lyrics to one hundred songs, curated by the woman...

How Freakin’ Zeitgeist Are You is the definitive collection of Murray Lachlan Young’s poems from 1994 to the present day. Anyone who has watched or listened to Murray perform will recognise the range of his work, from whimsical comedy to darker pieces through satire, cosmology and metaphysics....