Sarah tastes of grease, Donalds are rubber ducks dipped in vinegar... Julie McDowall has an unusual form of synaesthesia, which means that she can taste names. Want to know what yours tastes like? Now you can find out.

A major new critical study of the writings of a giant of the SF genre by a Hugo award-winning critic and historian.

A guide to killing your monsters

The untold story of a creative, innovative, fiercely-independent gaming scene that was serially ignored by the outside world

Collating the obscure dregs of the eighties and nineties video game industry so we can all point and laugh

A Small Fiction is an illustrated collection of 150 tiny stories, each told in 140 characters or less.

Ben Again is the inspirational memoir of traumatic brain injury survivor Ben Clench from Sussex

From the writer and co-founder of openDemocracy, a forensic and sweeping polemic

Bridget Jones meets Erin Brockovich and Elizabeth Gilbert – wearing a strap on, at a sex party

Jonathan Meades on places and the people that make them

How do you make a living as a band in a world that doesn't want to pay?

Unbound's very first poet publishes his 'best of' collection

The book of the BBC Radio 4 series starring Stephen Fry, Daniel Rigby and Tamsin Greig

The Sunday Times best-selling collection of 125 of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters

Mrs Stephen Fry's guide to an almost perfect marriage, just like hers...

A polemical, personal but exhaustively detailed account of the fall of the House of Murdoch

Heat magazine – 18th century style

An illustrated anthology in which 26 writers respond to 26 treasures in 4 museums, using only 62 words

Sometimes we have to lose everything to understand this moment is all we have

The story of a dissipated genius in a borrowed hat and coat

A life spent cooking and writing turned into a delicious memoir

A real taste of winemaking - true stories about a wine, the people who make it and the place it's made

Comrades! Join us in the Glorious People’s Republic of Transnistria

The brilliant sequel to News from Gardenia

A poetic, funny and touching memoir of childhood in the 1970s

One man, 5,000 parties

A carefree exploration of the culture and cuisines of the Italian islands

Originality is hated and pretended, but the real thing is beautiful

A cultural exploration of British houses in fiction

A tragicomic memoir about intrusive sexual thoughts