LEAP, the imprint at Bonnier Books UK focusing on inspiring and informing positive change, has acquired Built from Pain by Klaus Mitchell.
Editorial Director, George Brooker, pre-empted World All Language rights from Jack Fogg at DunnFogg.
Built from Pain is a groundbreaking guide to transforming chronic pain into strength and purpose by journalist and campaigner Klaus Mitchell and reframes one of the world’s most misunderstood conditions. Drawing on two decades of lived experience, powerful patient stories, and cutting‑edge neuroscience, Mitchell offers a compassionate, practical roadmap for anyone living with persistent pain. Instead of promising cures, he shows how acknowledgement, acceptance, and awakening can rebuild identity, resilience, and meaning from the inside out. Blending storytelling, science, and emotional clarity, this book empowers readers not just to survive pain, but to build a life within it that feels purposeful, connected, and whole.
Klaus Mitchell is the founder and CEO of Everkind Digital, the media agency behind Plant Based News and The Sustainability Awards. His award‑winning platforms reach over 85 million monthly impressions across health, sustainability, and lifestyle medicine and have 3.5 million+ combined social media followers and an email list of 120,000+ active subscribers. Graduating top of his class in Human Biosciences with a Master’s in The Genetics of Human Disease, Klaus blends lived experience with his strong academic background. He’s since become a respected and celebrated speaker at international events on health, wellness, sustainability, and digital marketing and has spent nearly two decades telling powerful stories at the intersection of science and culture.
Klaus Mitchell said: “I am incredibly proud to be partnering with Bonnier Books UK to bring this book into the world. Built from Pain is the most personal project I have ever undertaken. It is rooted in years of lived experience, scientific research, and honest conversations about what it really means to live with chronic pain. From our earliest discussions, the team at Bonnier understood that the vision of the book is not only to offer practical, evidence-based tools, but to broaden our definition of health so that it fully includes those living with permanent and invisible limitations. I could not ask for a more committed publishing partner to help share that message.”
George Brooker said: “I couldn’t be happier to be welcoming Klaus to the LEAP list. Seeing the statistics around chronic pain and the growth in diagnoses across the world, this book felt incredibly important to publish and bring its affirmative message to a wider audience. Klaus’s lived experienced alongside his groundbreaking approach come together to make a truly unique approach to dealing with chronic pain and a unique piece of publishing.”
Built from Pain will be published in trade paperback, audio and eBook in March 2027 by LEAP.
