Backlist

The Train of Ice and Fire

Ramón Chao, Ann Wright

The incredible story of an audacious rock'n'roll tour through Colombia. 'Any band that ever moaned about the freshness of the backstage towels should read this book.' Word

Away From the Light of Day

Idrissa Keïta, Ann Wright, Amadou and Mariam

'As far from Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt as music biography gets.' - Word. The inspiring autobiography of the Blind Duo of Mali.

When Quiet Was The New Loud

Tom Clayton

Tom Clayton's affection reclaiming of the New Acoustic Movement, an era of British music that has deliberately forgotten. 'A charming and important reveal on the acoustic outsiders of the early noughties and beyond.' - Olly Knights, Turin Brakes

Nothing Ever Happens In Wentbridge

Janet Watson

Janet Watson's memoir of first love and loss. 'This is a luminous book about real life: about love, loss, motherhood, daughterhood, about sex, longing and fear, regret and the terrible pain of hindsight.' - Mumsnet

Everything Now

Steve McKevitt's treatise on the culture of abundance. 'Explains why we are better fed, educated entertained and longer-lived than ever before, but not happier.' - Sunday Times

Red Army Faction Blues

Ada Wilson

'As a novel that is willing to both engage with radical politics and explore postmodern literary form, Red Army Faction Blues is a highly commendable work, audaciously conceived and well executed.' - The Review of Contemporary Fiction

La Rochelle

Michael Nath

Michael Nath's darkly comic and highly original debut novel. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. 'Original, funny and absolutely spot-on.' - The Independent

Rites

Sophie Coulombeau

Four teenagers make a pact to lose their virginity away from the watchful eyes of parents and priest. Fifteen years later, they reflect on the past and unravel how it all went so horribly wrong. Winner of the Next Great Novelist Award.

Because Cuba is You

Ramón Chao, Ann Wright

Ramón Chao's dazzling story of his grandmother's adventures in her native Galacia and Cuba viewed through a magical realist lens. 'Chao brings an imaginative dimension to the story of emigration.' - El Mundo

Red Laal

M Y Alam

‘Another gangster with all the presence of a ghost. Just stories you hear over the years. Heavyweight. King shit. Bad arse. Red Laal… If there did exist a Pakistani Don Corleone, then this was him.’ Kilo has fallen down the rungs of the criminal ladder and is once again reduced to dealing small time. Just when he realises he has to make a clean break and ..