Safe Haven is a boutique imprint started by Graham Coster, formerly the Publisher at Aurum Press.

At Aurum Graham gained a reputation for publishing quirky, intelligent, counter-intuitive non-fiction – usually from his own ideas – that sold in substantial numbers. Who would have thought nearly 50,000 people would buy a book about the esoteric Lakeland sport of fell-running (Feet in the Clouds), or that a collection of letters not published in the Daily Telegraph (Am I Alone in Thinking..?) would become a Christmas bestseller and lead to nine sequels - or that an oral history of Bletchley Park that was not about the men famous for cracking the codes would have gone on to sell over a quarter of a million?

Now, Safe Haven is an entire list dedicated to just such idiosyncratic but covetable books: non-fiction that’s maverick but mainstream. Underdog books, as its publications have been called. Heineken books - books that reach the parts other books cannot reach. They’re eclectic in subject, from cricket to unsent letters, natural history to beer, street trees to the patterns on the seats you sit on in Tube trains - but conceived above all with a precise sense of their audience. There’s no commitment to a particular number of titles per year: Safe Haven publishes books that deserve to be published – that it really wants to do.

Usually they’re smaller books, in format and price: cheap enough for an impulse-buy; ideal for a gift. Books so intriguing and elegant – serendipitous, even – you’ll not only want to give them as presents, you’ll also want to treat yourself.

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