News from the Network…
If you’re looking for the latest on the indie press scene, you’re in the right place… so here’s what’s coming up this month from the Indie Press Network! Scroll on down for books and news…
(NB There is also a section of the site tailored to booksellers and reviewers – if you spot something you’d like to find out more about, just click on the press name, and you’ll find the relevant publicity contact listed under the logo.)
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This month’s titles from our presses
A tale of two Alices, in this decadent Gothic tale the young Alice Oke finds herself captivated by the tale of her namesake seventeenth-century ancestor, who was involved in a scandalous affair. Surrounded by portraits and relics, as time goes on sh… Read more →
• Fiction
128pp Paperback
16 September 2026
ISBN: 9781804472095
RRP: £8.99
Renard Press
Blackbird, Blackbird, Blackberry tells the story of extreme situations: of love for life when we sense its end, of the explosion of aggressive impulses when our freedom is threatened, of discovering a different self in the face of passion, of numerou… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
244pp Paperback
30 September 2026
ISBN: 9781919196046
RRP: £12.99
Linden Editions
Dear Death is a sweet and nuanced exploration of difficult topics through a young girl’s letters she sends to ‘Death’. Dear Death follows a young girl named Carrot. Was there anyone else in the whole wide world who felt as lonely as Carrot did? Most… Read more →
Children's • FictionPoetry
82pp Hardback
30 September 2026
ISBN: 9781917233170
RRP: £12.99
Major Books
Written in a bold, experimental form, Elemental Blackness interweaves poetry, ritual, essays and prayers to paint a rich portrait of Blackness in all its multifaceted complexity. Centring on the four elements of water, fire, earth and air, Elemental… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
285pp Hardback
22 September 2026
ISBN: 9781913175924
RRP: £16.99
Cassava Republic Press
A compelling, tender, unforgettable portrait of a challenging father (and a son’s relationship with him), juxtaposed with stunning, sometimes disturbing vignettes of the natural world. With controlled, precise, evocative, but always unexpected prose,… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
222pp Paperback | AI
17 September 2026
ISBN: 9781919184746
RRP: £12.99
Conduit Books
What if clothes, more than just something to wear, can act as entry points to relationships with the dynamic living world? In short vignettes tied to the changing seasons, fashion and sustainability pioneer Kate Fletcher, challenges the illusion that… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
76pp Paperback
1 October 2026
ISBN: 9781068321566
RRP: £12.99
Quickthorn
Hassan and Hassana are twins, and they’re practically identical. Even though one is a boy and the other a girl, ever since they were babies people have had trouble telling them apart. For their 8th birthday,Hassan gets a bike and Hassana gets drums.… Read more →
Children's • Fiction
40pp Paperback | AI
29 September 2026
ISBN: 9781913175405
RRP: £7.99
Cassava Republic Press
William Scammell had only been writing poetry for twenty years when he died, just as he entered his sixties, yet – despite a series of publishing misfortunes – he left behind nine collections, and was in full flow. A feared reviewer in the popular pr… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
208pp Paperback
1 October 2026
ISBN: 9781804472101
RRP: £10.99
Renard Press
Prize-winning poet and Ukrainian soldier Artur Dron’ describes his time fighting on the front line of the russo-Ukrainian war, musing on Hemingway, his Faith, his comrades, frostbite, pot noodles, shell-shock, injury and death.… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
160pp Paperback
10 September 2026
ISBN: 9781914990328
RRP: £14.99
Jantar Publishing
Author Harry is divorced, depressed, out of contract and unsure what she wants to do with the rest of her life. She invents a character Natalie – a braver, bolder version of herself – whom she begins channelling in small ways in her own life. A metaf… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
256pp Paperback
1 September 2026
ISBN: 9781804471982
RRP: £10
Renard Press
In a digital age, Pond Life asks who will record the lives that do not appear on screen. Enter Edith Cull, unmarried and working as an occasional coverteacher. Edith’s life lacks biography. Her chief pleasure and source of excitement is the cinema. E… Read more →
YAAdult • Fiction
185pp paperback
21 September 2026
ISBN: 9781068680465
RRP: £12.99
The New Menard Press
Kavi Naidu is a great poet in the tradition of Wordsworth and Shelley (well, he thinks so, anyway). Pompous, sentimental and hell-bent on finding literary fame and romantic glory, he is catapulted from his humdrum routine into the heady distractions… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
224pp Paperback
16 September 2026
ISBN: 9781804472019
RRP: £10
Renard Press
“NOT ALL OF THIS IS TRUE. But some surely is. Most of it, I hope.” When five wealthy trophy hunters descend upon a remote African forest, they overlook the passionate young researcher, Angel Restorick, who has learned to communicate with the chimpanz… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
320pp | AI
1 September 2026
ISBN: 9781915789556
RRP: £18.99
Fly on the Wall Press
‘Right.’ She flicked the thin dress straps off her shoulders, then reached behind her back for the zip. ‘Let’s get started, mister.’ Anthony is barely present in his own life. A failed academic career, a call-centre job he hates, an Alcoholics Anonym… Read more →
• Fiction
160pp Paperback | AI
10 September 2026
ISBN: 9781738466788
RRP: £10.99
Ortac Press
‘Where were you when the Message came through?’ THE DEVIL BY NAME opens five years after FEVER HOUSE, with survivors finally starting to find a new equilibrium in a world overrun by the zombie-like “fevered.” We meet Naomi, a teenage girl in France w… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
482pp Paperback | AI
1 October 2026
ISBN: 9781805530015
RRP: £10.99
Black Crow Books
There is something unreal about this Hong Kong estate. For its residents, isolated in their mid-block apartments, hallucinations lurk just beyond the stress-induced cracks of daily life. Each home is furnished with its own unique demons and haunted b… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
240pp Hardback | AI
25 September 2026
ISBN: 9781838905781
RRP: £15.99
Sinoist Books
1848. A bad year to be poor, and a worse one to be Irish. It has been sixteen years since Sammy and Facey hoisted their last corpse. Sammy keeps a quiet Portsmouth tap-room, and Facey hosts his own Soho tavern. But when an Irish widow’s body is spiri… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
222pp paperback | AI
24 September 2026
ISBN: 9781917090162
RRP: £11.99
Deixis Press
Keith Broomfield has been exploring wild places in the northeast of Scotland for 40 years, since his days as a zoology student at the University of Aberdeen. In Where a Cold Light Falls, he revisits old haunts and discovers thrilling new habitats, ta… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
200pp Paperback
21 September 2026
ISBN: 9781913836689
RRP: £11.99
Tippermuir Books
On a divided island, the dead tell stories. Nuray is a journalist. Some call her a troublemaker. Or a sleuth with a knack for finding the hidden graves of the missing. Haris has spent a lifetime avoiding the truth about his father’s disappearance. W… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
200pp Paperback
10 September 2026
ISBN: 9781910461884
RRP: £12.99
Claret Press
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