Recovered Books aims to meet three essential goals in the service of the interested reader:

 

• To bring forgotten and often difficult to find books back into print for a new generation to enjoy.

 

• To introduce readers and researchers to these under-appreciated writers and encourage them to expand their notions of canon.

 

• To present exquisitely designed books that are - above all - exciting and interesting to read.

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Recovered Books is about offering remarkable and memorable reading experiences.

 

Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis, our inaugural title, is one such experience: a wonderfully tragi-comic parable of isolation and abandonment which has become an international phenomenon, having now been translated into ten different languages, featured on Swiss television, and adapted into one-man plays in two different countries.

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Recovered Books is unique among reissue publishing series in not limiting itself to any time period, genre, or language. Its sole aim is to bring back to print exceptional books that have been profoundly forgotten — in some cases, so forgotten that there are no mentions in any literary history and no copies available outside a handful of libraries.

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Since its launch in 2021, Recovered Books has become recognized as a series maintaining the highest standards of editorial curation and book design. Every book includes an introduction by a contemporary writer aimed at sharing enthusiasm for a title and author usually utterly unknown to the reader and an afterword intended to set the work in its literary and historical context and encourage further study and research. Every book includes unique design elements including color, endpapers, glyphs, and photographs. Recovered Books are not just good reads but good-looking books.

 

​Kudos for Recovered Books:

• Series announcement in The Bookseller and the initial Press Release.

• On the Recovered Books series from UEA Stories.

• From The Longest Chapter: "The third book I’ve read in the Recovered Books series, and with each, once I started, all I wanted was to keep reading."

• From Kaggsy's Bookish Rambles: "A particular star of indie publishing for me this year has been Boiler House Press; they’ve put out some fascinating titles since launching their Recovered Books series with the amazing Gentleman Overboard and I can’t recommend them highly enough.

• From the Times Literary Supplement: "To Test the Joy: Selected Poetry and Prose by Genevieve Taggard is a handsome rescue effort featuring dapper essays by the editor, Anne Hammond, arranged around Taggard’s poetry, reviews, fiction and memoir pieces."

• From Madame Bibliophile Recommends: "Gertrude Trevelyan is such an accomplished writer who always manages to drive home her wider points without ever losing sight of her characters. I’m so glad Boiler House Press's Recovered Books have rescued three of her novels as she deserves to be so much better known."​

• From Goodreads: "God bless Recovered Books. God bless Boiler House Press and my old alma mater UEA. Gertrude Trevelyan was a goddamn genius and you need to be reading her."

• From The Mookse and the Gripes: "I love when books that were forgotten but worthy come back, so I hope that Recovered Books goes on for a long time."

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