We are ZunTold, a publishing house based in Manchester, UK. Our mission is to harness the healing potential of books and stories. Something good happens when we read - it increases our ability to empathise, it improves connectivity in the brain and importantly, it improves children and young people's learning outcomes and sense of wellbeing. For many different reasons, some children, young people and adults find reading a challenge, and so we are committed to publishing books that are accessible for readers from differing populations.
Where possible, ZunTold Living BooksTM are available in audio and text.
ZunTold was founded by Elaine Bousfield MBE. Elaine trained as a counsellor and worked as a young person's counsellor for many years. She is the Founder of Kooth and when she left Kooth in 2020, she wanted to bring her knowledge of blended (digital and face-to face) counselling and therapy together with the power of reading. With that in mind, ZunTold is a publishing house and a provider of Bibliotherapy. We work in schools, in the community and online providing personalised access to fiction to support good mental health.
We publish for Middle Grade, Young Adult, New Adult Fiction and Adult non- fiction in print, audio, eBook and for the bibliotherapy service, as ZunTold Living Books. ZunTold Living Books are text and audio and are an opportunity for publishers and authors to distribute their existing work to a new audience.
Please contact us at submissions@zuntold.com to discuss.
As a Bibliotherapy publisher, we love contemporary fiction and poetry, historical fiction, fantasy, magical realism and just about anything as long as it has depth. We like books that stand the test of time. The books we take on must have substance and we have a particular interest in fiction to support empathy and good mental health and wellbeing.
We also look for adult non-fiction in the fields of counselling, psychotherapy, self-help, and memoirs.
Our authors are award winning writers or have been nominated for leading literary awards. Amongst them are Kate Wiseman, Miriam Halahmy, Samuel Pollen and Anna Bowles.
We are a member of the Independent Publishing Guild.
