Literary Nonfiction. Celebrating forty years of the Sir Misha Black Awards—the world's only major awards recognising and promoting excellence in design education—FITNESS offers a treasure trove of thoughtful essays by some of the world's leading des...
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Literary Nonfiction. Essays. This book is a chronicle of the overlooked and unsung, a collection of award-winning essays based on Brian Jabas Smith's popular column, "Tucson Salvage.""A true champion of the dispossessed and forgotten. ... I can't re...
Literary Nonfiction. Aimed at the more discerning gourmand, EDIBLE PLEASURES offers an irresistible guide to the unbreakable bond between food and love. From the poetic to the philosophical, the absurd to the abstruse, indulge in scientific, gastron...
Literary Nonfiction. DEEPER is a powerful new self-help book written by an Everest base camp motivational guide known for working with climbers, adventurers and the Sherpas, as well as any one with a desire to grow as a person.
Poetry. In his first full collection, Gale Burns amuses and intrigues by mining the rich textures of his youth—the pancakes and ice cream of the Happy Eater, the hitchhiking adventures and the caravan holidays. He then engages with fresh perspective...
Poetry. SECULAR GAMES is Alex Wylie's debut collection. Formally exploratory and inventive, its poems range across subjects and settings—ninth-century Japan, Renaissance Italy, the surface of Venus—focusing afresh our own historical moment. Written ...
Literary Nonfiction. Politics. Biography. June 2016. The EU referendum campaign is in full swing. The Tory elite jostles for the leadership. It's a moment which Julius Caesar would have understood. The possibility of power is in the air. While Boris...
Poetry. Lyric or narrative in character, these poems are stitched through by the search for significance in the particular, whether at a train-station, draining a radiator, or eating chips, or on the alternative uses of Tipp-Ex, how not to take stai...
Poetry. Michael's poetic account of his journey through the effects of drug use and mental illness moves through stages of psychosis, wellness, care in the community and catharsis. There is a probing of the dark places with humour, grace and wisdom ...
Fiction. "This is a distinctive, urban voice, which holds on to speaking and feeling throughout states of fragmentariness...[T]he various figures, situations, scenes and would-be-meanings cracking with violent variety, unassimilable chasms in friend...
Literary Nonfiction. Politics. Modern Britain is obsessed with immigration. Politicians make promises about it. Journalists write countless stories about it. We gossip about it on the bus and in the pub. Everyone has an opinion. DRAWBRIDGE BRITAIN t...
Literary Nonfiction. A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY follows the history of the people exploited, displaced, and made obsolete by the tech industry, from the colonization of the Bay Area to the present day. From the first Macintosh to the rise ...
Fiction. Who is that mournful man in the painting? THE AFTERLIVES OF DOCTOR GACHET tells the story of Paul Ferdinand Gachet, the subject of one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous portraits: one that shows what the artist called "the heartbroken expre...
Poetry. This is an exciting debut collection from a young poet who is part of the Instapoet revolution, and a must have for all those fascinated by the medium. Elisa Matvejeva's powerful and shocking poems are combined with illustrations exploring l...
Poetry. Winner of the first Beverley Series Prize. Sohini Basak's intricately woven, exquisite debut collection breaks boundaries with form and gently collapses reality, dream and folklore into each other. There is a sense of endlessness in the inte...