EnvelopeBooks | London publisher and packager

EnvelopeBooks: London’s premier book packager and publisher—in partnership with www.booklaunch.london

We're rare in this crowded field: we take writing seriously and we’re conscientious. Unlike many firms who advertise more widely, we don’t take short cuts and we don’t take advantage of authors’ innocence. We work tirelessly to ensure your words are as good as they’ll need to be, and then we get them to market in whatever format makes most sense.

MICHAEL HOLMAN

POSTMARK AFRICA

HALF A CENTURY AS A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Eye-witness reports over 50 years on the state of sub-Saharan Africa, written for the Financial Times and other media, by the FT's former Africa Editor, providing rare insights into the continent's post-independence successes and set-back. Revealing, relevant and highly readable. Alexander McCall Smith says: "Profound observations on virtually very page."

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ROBERT BEST

FROM BEDALES TO THE BOCHE

THE IRONIES OF AN EDWARDIAN CHILDHOOD

No one expected that a generation that had befriended Germany in the 1900s would be eagerly fighting against it in the 1910s. In this extraordinary memoir, one of Britain's most important industrial designers tracks his career from the progressive idealism of his school days at Bedales to his passionate enlistment into the Royal Flying Corps, after two years in the ASC.

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JONATHAN LAWLEY

A ROAD TO EXTINCTION

CAN PALAEOLITHIC AFRICANS SURVIVE IN THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS?

The Jarawa tribe wants nothing to do with modern civilisation, but modern civilisation doesn't care. Convoys of tourists travel each day along the Andaman Trunk Road in the hope of seeing these naked pygmy hunters in what is now India's human safari park. Jonathan Lawley goes back to the colony his grandfather used to run to see how bad things are.

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