Dear Reader, Welcome to our autumn catalogue, featuring titles published between July and December 2021. You will have noticed from the cover that Unbound is celebrating its tenth anniversary – we hope you recognise some familiar titles and want to thank you for all your support over the past decade. As usual, we have devoted the first half of the catalogue to excerpts and interviews around the books published in this period, with the second half containing a full chronological list including ISBNs and prices. If you’re a bookshop, all titles are available to pre-order from GBS or through your PGUK sales rep. Writing this as bookshops reopen and spring is in the air, it feels exciting to be sharing our publishing programme for the second half of the year. Among the highlights, we are thrilled to be bringing two classic Jackie Morris titles back into print: East of the Sun, West of the Moon and The Wild Swans. With beautiful new jackets, completely redesigned interiors and in the same format as The Unwinding, both of these exquisite books will be published on 14 October – turn to page 19 to read an extract from The Wild Swans. September sees the publication of Damnable Tales, an illustrated collection of twenty-three classic folk horror stories by Shirley Jackson, M. R. James, Robert Aickman and Thomas Hardy among others. Selected and illustrated with powerful lino-cuts by Richard Wells, these stories stalk the moors at night, the deep forests, cornered fields and dusky churchyards, the narrow lanes and old ways of these ancient places, drawing upon the haunted landscapes of folk horror. Later in the month we publish Completely Staged, an illustrated compendium of the complete BBC scripts from the lockdown hit TV show Staged, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen. Launched during the global coronavirus pandemic, the show follows the two thespians playing fictionalised versions of themselves as they try to rehearse a play during lockdown… over Zoom. Alongside the scripts, from Staged’s writer and director Simon Evans and co-creator Phin Glynn, are full-colour stills from the show, original drawings, sheet music for the theme tune, Georgia Tennant’s carrot cake recipe, tips on how to draw a pineapple and much more.
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