130 x 200mm, 180 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025

Loose Fit, a semi-fictionalised memoir by Matthias Connor, which details how the author lurches from a bohemian existence as a skateboarder and raver, to becoming a parent, a husband and a nurse in a Midlands prison. Matthias dispenses methadone to people he once knew at school. He argues with prisoners over their pregabalin dosage then bumps into them post-release as he pushes his pram around the local city centre. At its core, Loose Fit is a story about someone's idealism evaporating, but far from being dreary and depressing, Matthias's writing is highly readable, full of wit and an appreciation of the absurd. The cover design is by Ben Drury, the groundbreaking designer responsible for much of Mowax and Palace Skateboards imagery. The book has been described by Jonathan Glazer, the Oscar-winning director of Zone of Interest, as 'Intimate, vivid and humanising', and by Elizabeth Price, the Turner Prize-winning British artist as having 'great insight, wit and generosity'.

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