An examination of modern humanity's desperate need to live meaningfully and vividly in a mediated world - where individual autonomy is lost and the collective heart is atomised and exploited - this is a novel that gives voices to the marginalised, the dispossessed, the forgotten. Disturbing and unforgettable, darkly funny and deeply moving, written in a charged language that is vernacular, lyrical and hieratic all at once, Broken Ghost is - simultaneously - a howl of anguish and a summoning of gods.
The Trail by James Ellson
Manchester DCI Rick Castle receives a call. A cannabis dealer is missing; his father’s a war hero.
Rick flies to Nepal, and heads up the trail: brilliant skies and snow-capped mountains.
There, he finds a dead body. Then a second.
The Black Cuillin by Calum Smith
The Black Cuillin is an exhilarating account of mountaineering in the Isle of Skye and the extraordinary folk who flocked to the 'British Alps'. Not simply a climbing compendium but a social history of the island, its mountains and its people.
The Last Great Mountain by Mick Conefrey
The Last Great Mountain tells the inside story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga in 1955 by a British team led by Charles Evans and the pioneering but ill-fated expeditions that preceded it.
Rockhead by Sean Toren
A novel about a deep friendship between two climbers and their trip to Yosemite to attempt a notorious wall. Along the way they encounter sex, jackalopes, non-ordinary states of consciousness—and a focused way of being they call the ‘rockhead’.
Mountaineering and British Romanticism by Simon Bainbridge
This volume argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity's evolution.
Edge of the Map: The Mountain Life of Christine Boskoff by Johanna Garton
Christine Boskoff’s story is that of a small town girl who became one of the world’s top alpinists. She sought adventure in the most remote regions—until she and partner Charlie Fowler disappeared in 2006.
Protection - A Mountaineering Novel by Paul Hersey
Running away is Jase’s answer to everything: having to compete against his older brother Duncan; avoiding a growing love for his friend Kate; facing his fear of climbing in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. This is a story of love, loss and redemption, the bonds between family and the outdoors, and those rarest of opportunities to right past wrongs.
Seven Climbs by Charles Sherwood
Experienced climber Charles Sherwood is on a quest to find the best climb on each continent. He eschews the traditional Seven Summits, where height alone is the determining factor, and instead considers mountaineering challenge, natural beauty and historical context, aiming to capture the diverse character of each continent and the sheer variety of climbing in all its forms.
Crazy Sorrow by Grant Farquhar
Crazy Sorrow is a biography of the UK’s top winter climber of the turn of the 21st century. Surviving an abusive childhood, he served in the British army for eight years before being invalided out. Having been introduced to ice climbing during his military service, only four years later he was making first ascents of the hardest routes in the harsh discipline of Scottish winter climbing. He then abruptly retired from climbing, and due to mental illness committed suicide at the age of 34.
The Beast of Bishop by Borden Shaw
A thug with a missing wife and allegations of disappearing people. A front page journalist digging for the truth. A remote cabin in the mountains. This story might cost Matthew his life.
Slatehead by Peter Goulding
Join Peter Goulding in this dizzying account of ascending in the disused Dinorwig slate quarries of Snowdonia. Winner of the 2019 New Welsh Writing Awards.
‘Witty, absorbing, wide-ranging and razor-sharp account of a love affair with rock’ - Helen Mort
Performing Mountains by Jonathan Pitches
Moving between the personal and the scholarly, Performing Mountains brings together Mountain Studies and Performance Studies for the first time, examining an international selection of dramatic responses to mountain landscapes, including rituals, mountain plays and on-site performances.
The Unremembered Places by Patrick Baker
There are strange relics hidden across Scotland’s landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible stories and past lives which still resonate today. Yet why are so many of these ‘wild histories’ unnoticed and overlooked? And what can they tell us about our own modern identity?
Ground Truth by Ruby McConnell
Part natural history, part memoir-in-essays, Ground Truth is a portrait of the forces and landscapes that have shaped the Pacific Northwest of the United States and the people who live there.
The Frozen River by James Crowden
The Frozen River is James Crowden’s extraordinary account of a winter spent in Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. In lyrical prose, Crowden describes living alongside the Zangskari community who reside there.
The Uncrowned King of Mont Blanc by Peter Foster
The Uncrowned King of Mont Blanc by Peter Foster is the story of Thomas Graham Brown: scientist, mountaineer and psychological paradox, most famous for his groundbreaking routes on the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc and his turbulent relationship with Frank Smythe.
Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee
Part-nature writing, part-biography and beautifully written, Two Trees Make a Forest traces the natural and human stories that shaped an island and a family.
The Clearing by Samantha Clark
A powerful memoir about mental illness and grief, interspersed with meditations on nature, philosophy, literature and science.
The Desert by Luke Mehall
The Desert is a definitive, independently published account of a dirtbag climber searching for love, passion, fresh air, and, an escape from the electronic hyper-connectedness of the modern world.