‘We all blamed Helen.’
She’s the most scapegoated heroine in Greek mythology, but there’s never just one side to any story. This new framing uncovers the complexities of Helen of Troy – a woman tormented by the blame placed on her by others, and tortured by her own guilt.

Helen's Judgement

With Love from the Afterlife

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<meta charset="utf-8">A medical breakthrough solves the problem of endless old age: if a person has had enough of life, their 'Switch' flips and they instantly die.
 
Fifteen-year-old Margaretta lives in fear of her Switch. Since her mum died four years ago, she has lived alone with her violent father and survived only by shutting out all feelings. Margaretta's emotional armour starts to crack when she meets Sky, a charismatic vagabond, and runs away with him.
 
Sky introduces Margaretta to the exhilarating atmosphere of the Blue Cat nightclub. But as the attraction between them intensifies, they find themselves drawn into a murky world of political corruption controlled by the club’s shady clientele. With dishonesty eating away at the heart of power, countless lives are on the line. 
 
Emotions can kill, but Margaretta has just begun to feel alive.
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Myth, folklore, and magic come together in 21 illustrated short stories of hope, transformation, and finding light within the dark. 
A young woman unearths a masquerade mask that reveals her innermost secrets. A grieving woman uses cocoa beans to open a door between worlds. A graduate student leaves her thesis behind when she crosses into fairyland. A child becomes separated from their home beneath the waves. An aging grandmother recounts her post-war encounter with a shapeshifter who brought out new desires. 
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A beginner’s guide to finding yourself in nature, inspired by Celtic wisdom. 
Reconnect with the wild and embark on your personalised spiritual journey towards wellbeing and growth. Choose your own path and determine your own destiny, focusing on each point of the Celtic Nature Wheel. The Celtic Nature Wheel reflects the interconnectedness of seasons and natural cycles. It includes points such as Imbolc (in early spring) and Samhain (in early winter), each symbolizing themes like rebirth and release. Understanding these rhythms can bring spiritual alignment and deeper connection with nature, fostering personal growth and wellbeing. 
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This Edwardian crime caper is the debut novel from award-winning writer and director Mario Theodorou. 
London, 1904. 
Three years after Queen Victoria's death, Edward VII sits on the throne, the economy is struggling, and Captain Scott is at the South Pole. Felix Grey, the second youngest Prime Minister in history, rides a populist wave into Number 10. Battling self-doubt and fierce opposition, Felix's resolve is ignited by the mysterious abduction of a Lord from a London club. 
Neglecting his duties, Felix teams up with a bumbling Oxford professor and a printer’s apprentice. Together, they plunge into London's murky politics and notorious landmarks, uncovering a plot to wreak havoc before the state opening of Parliament. With peers vanishing and factory disasters fueling unrest, Felix must navigate treachery and danger to crack the case, protect the country, and secure his position as Prime Minister. 
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A new book from Robert Ashton, the 2024 Wainwright Prize longlisted author of Where Are The Fellows Who Cut the Hay? . . . 
 
‘To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves’ Gandhi
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We rely on soil for our food, for the rich biodiversity that defines life on this planet and much of our traditions and folklore, but are we guilty in today’s largely urban age of taking it for granted? And if we are – what is the cost?
 
The books of oral historian George Ewart Evans, farmer and journalist Adrian Bell, both of whom lived in Suffolk, described a way of life where people’s connection with the earth was intimate in a way we find hard to imagine today. H. Rider Haggard, who farmed on the Norfolk Suffolk border in the late nineteenth century vividly wrote in great detail about how the men on his farm would labour in the fields.
 
With these writers in mind, and prompted by tragedy and coincidence, I set off to explore our relationship with soil. I didn’t want to write another textbook, although I will dip into soil science, nor did I want to make a plea for environmental action, though there is an undeniable link between how we treat soil and its ability to capture, or release, damaging carbon dioxide. Instead I want to meet and learn from people whose jobs involve working with earth.
 
Each chapter will focus on one aspect of our relationship with soil, opening with how we used to think about and work with earth, drawing on books written over the past 500 years, before telling the stories of practitioners who work with earth today. From gardener to gravedigger and archaeologist to agriculturalist, I go on a quest both to deepen my own understanding of the ground beneath my feet, and perhaps also to help you, the reader, develop a more informed view of the importance of soil to our lives today.

Down to Earth

Burning Down the House

This is the story of Here, The Sisters of Mercy’s long-awaited fourth album.
 
A record yet to be made.
 
The Sisters of Mercy have not released any music since 1993. The last whispers about new recorded material date from the tail-end of the 20th century. Instead of making and promoting records, Andrew Eldritch, The Sisters’ frontman, founder and lodestar has charted a course of his own design through the wreckage of an imploding music industry, winnowing contact with it to the bare minimum. Rather than record, release and promote songs - and hitching the band to all the machinery that entails - Eldritch has narrowed The Sisters’ theatre of operations to just this: they play gigs, sell merch and appear on the bills at festivals. And that is it. They don’t sound like one, but The Sisters are essentially a punk band, operating on the same anti-authoritarian, anti-corporate principles of the fiercely independent Leeds music scene of late ‘70s that birthed them.
 
Although Here does not exist, the songs do.
 
In live performances this album manqué <meta charset="utf-8">comprises half of The Sisters of Mercy’s set, going toe-to-toe with actual hits, such as ‘Temple of Love’, ‘Lucretia’, ‘This Corrosion’ ‘Dominion’ and ‘Alice’. Here, an album in some modal reality, is prime Sisters, a glorious amalgam of melody, synthesised rhythm, metallic guitars and one of rock’s great lyricists on top form. It is equal to - some say it surpasses – its three classic predecessors, First and Last and Always, Floodland and Vision Thing.
 
Although Here does not exist, the band does.
 
The template of Eldritch, plus two guitar players and Doktor Avalanche - a computer containing all the non-guitar parts - and its handler, is long established. The Sisters have endured because all the late-period iterations of the band have been remarkably – although not entirely - stable and harmonious. Each of the guitarists and “Nurses” have played their part in The Sisters’ longevity. Each – including Eldritch – are living proof that making rock music can be thrilling and fulfilling but it requires courage, commitment and sacrifice; the tower of song demands its pound of flesh from its workers, even from the hardiest and the luckiest.
 
While he remains the star of the band, and no doubt more equal than the others, Eldritch is fishing in the same waters, sustaining an independent band on a fragile live circuit buffeted by Brexit, Covid and inflation, and with power and wealth increasingly concentrated into the hands of mega live entertainment conglomerates. Rather than respond to public demand or any career imperative – such as lucrative nostalgia tours, reforming so-called classic line-ups or making a new record - Eldritch has followed the contours of his own peculiar creativity and the iron laws of his sense of self.
 
There is another simple truth: The Sisters of Mercy exist because their audience has never deserted them. While there have been ebbs and flows there has always been a large core following into whom The Sisters dug their claws and never let go. Sisters’ tours bear witness to an extraordinary phenomenon: thousands upon thousands of devotees who have maintained a loving relationship with the band for decades. For them, The Sisters of Mercy offer an enduring and meaningful experience, with deep reserves of affection on which to draw on both sides of the fourth wall.
 
This is an account of how The Sisters of Mercy have refused to die, burn out or fade away. We will miss them when they are gone, but right now - against the grain, against the odds and against all reasonable expectation – they are, in all their perverse and singular glory, still very much alive.
 
“Here” is the successor – rather than sequel - to Mark Andrews’ Paint my Name in Black and Gold, the definitive account of the early years of The Sisters of Mercy.

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Unbound is delighted to announce the first English-language print edition of the classic work of speculative evolution, All Tomorrows. The edition will include bonus material including a species commentary and never-seen-before artwork. All backers will get their names printed in the book.
 
<meta charset="utf-8">'Love Today, and seize All Tomorrows!'
 
From C. M. Kosemen:
 
'In the early part of the 00s, inspired the creations of artists such as Wayne Douglas Barlowe, and the writings of Dougal Dixon and Olaf Stapledon, I found myself getting increasingly interested in speculative evolution.
 
After filling numerous notebooks with strange alien creatures and anatomical aberrations, I tried my hand at putting together a more coherent portfolio.
 
I started by contorting the human body to assume the overall features of animals – there were flying people, there were burrowing people, swimming people, predatory people, and so on.
 
At this point I had no idea of making a book in any shape or form. At most, I thought this exercise could take up ten or twelve pages in my sketchbook, and that would be that… In doing them I was pioneering the use of a mixed media approach, layering digital textures over watercolour illustrations in black and white, and detailing them with pencils. Then, as always, I created simply for the joy of creating.
 
Some months passed, and I turned back at my post-human portfolio. I felt that there could be something more I could do with this work. I tried to find a story that could tie all of these concepts together…
 
For some time then I was interested in the narrative possibilities offered by history and 'lore', as opposed to character-driven stories. We all find ourselves spending lots more time on Wikipedia, or reading encyclopaedias, or obscure historic events as opposed to reading character-driven adventures. Yet most (but not all) popular science-fiction stories remain character driven.
 
I knew that the many weird species I created would be impossible to unite with a single coherent story, so I went with the historic narration similar to Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, as well as Olaf Stapledon’s incredible books, Star Maker and Last and First Men.
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Thus, All Tomorrows was created, and without much fanfare I released it to the Internet as a free ebook. Looking back, I can today see how processing certain events the world suffered, and certain issues I personally dealt with while writing it, contributed to the book’s quirky sense of optimism against adversity.
 
Perhaps this was why the book enjoyed a renaissance of popularity in 2021 – at a time of pandemic lockdowns and economic turmoil.
 
I am grateful to everyone who popularised my work, and shared their love for it with their friends and loved ones – especially online. I was surprised beyond words to see how quickly All Tomorrows became popular younger audiences…
 
Imagine all the dreams you have when you are in your late teens… You are more idealistic; you think you can do a lot, easily, and be appreciated for it. Life will be a cakewalk. But more often than not, life gets in the way, and amid many rude awakenings and harsh lessons such dreams are seldom realised.
 
With the publication of this exceptional volume, I seem to have been blessed with a rare exception! Not only did a wild plan hatched by my nineteen-year-old-self succeed – but it grew popular beyond my wildest expectations, and went on to inspire others.
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I would like to thank everybody and anybody who loved me, loved my work, believed in it and supported it. Once again I would like to thank everybody who had a hand in creating this present, exceptional volume of All Tomorrows – rich with additional sketchbook pages and never-seen-before content.
 
As the saying goes, 'I must've done something right!' I hope this book keeps you good company and adds a sense of mystery, wonder and optimism to your life for years to come…'
 
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Two strangers meet in Manhattan and spend a perfect night together. In Tokyo, they have seven days to see if that one night might mean something more.
 
Landon’s living alone in Tokyo as a British ‘expat’, Louie’s visiting while he anxiously waits for approval on his US visa. Against the backdrop of a misty Tokyo Spring, their precious time together is spent wandering into side streets and coffee shops, sharing unmade beds and plates of food. But as the days tick by, Louie’s expectations start to overtake reality and he falls too deeply for a life that’s not yet his.
 
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