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Now on the shelves of all good bookshops throughout the land, Portobello Books' first four titles are characteristically diverse.

Here we have a couple of dazzling UK fictional debuts that promise to take you on journeys into the unknown and the unimagined, and two non-fiction books guaranteed to expand your mind, challenge your assumptions and maybe even change your life.

Whatever your taste and whether you want to be pleasantly disorientated, magically transported, or inspired to go carbon-neutral - we hope you find something here to enjoy.

The Outgoing Man by Glen Neath
'A clever, leftfield debut... surreally witty, it recalls the same European sense of experiment at work in Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Magnus Mills...' Metro

People I Wanted To Be by Gina Ochsner
'Ochsner manages to capture our sundry human moments and make raw and unforgettable music of them.' Colum McCann

We Are Iran by Nasrin Alavi
'If ever there was a book that gave a voice to a country buried beneath decades of misrepresentation, isolation and war, this is it. You hear the voices of today's Iran with a purity and diversity that is astounding. It could not have come at a more important moment.' - Rageh Omar

Half Gone by Jeremy Leggett
'I hope this book will not be an obituary for the human species. But the denial and double-think it exposes suggest that, unless we change pretty smartly, we can expect to be overtaken by the catastrophes Leggett documents. His book demands to be read.' George Monbiot