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
Leo is just trying to catch his train back home to the village of Malacstone in North East England. But there’s disorder at the station, and when a loud young man heading for London boards the train accidentally, a usually easy journey descends into… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
130pp Paperback
8 May 2025
ISBN: 9781739458041
RRP: £12.99
Wild Hunt Books
Sharing what he’s learnt during half a century’s creative work, John Greening gives us an insight into the life of a poet, playwright, editor, reviewer, teacher and performer. Eminently readable, amusing and informative, A High Calling is a rich reso… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
224pp Royal paperback | AI
21 May 2025
ISBN: 9781804471494
RRP: £14.99
Renard Press
Madeline is a twenty-eight year old, borderline obsessive-compulsive nurse in desperate need of an escape. When her grandmother passes away unexpectedly and leaves her bungalow to her only granddaughter, Madeline jumps at the chance of the fresh star… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
330pp Hardback
6 May 2025
ISBN: 9781915073457
RRP: £16.99
SRL Publishing
Fair: The Life-Art of Translation, is a satirical, refreshing and brilliantly playful book about learning the art of translation, being a bookworker in the publishing industry, growing up, family, and class. Loosely set in an imagined book fair/art f… Read more →
• Non-fiction
280pp Paperback
29 May 2025
ISBN: 9781913513733
RRP: £12.99
Prototype
Suffering from severe depression, Emma seeks out a serial killer who will kill her in the most gruesome way she can describe. But when she backs out of their agreement, she discovers the murderer is host to a parasitic creature from another dimension… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
120pp Paperback
27 May 2025
ISBN: 9781068520716
RRP: £9.99
Ghost Orchid Press
Adult • Fiction
361pp Paperback | AI
15 May 2025
ISBN: 9781915649492
RRP: £10.99
Diamond Books
At the airport, Pat – an Anglo-Irish character of undetermined gender at the heart of In Transit – is called to a heroic quest. Adrift within the confines of the airport’s physical space and time zones, they undergo a journey of self-discovery that e… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
322pp Paperback
1 May 2025
ISBN: 9781739744175
RRP: £12.99
Lurid Editions
Erben’s ‘Kytice’, together with ‘May’ and ‘The Grandmother’, is regarded as one of the three foundation texts of the modern Czech literary cannon. The collection inspired Dvořák to write four of his most famous works, the symphonic tone peoms ‘The Wa… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
120pp Paperback
15 May 2025
ISBN: 9781914990281
RRP: £14.99
Jantar Publishing
Welcome to the North. Sprawling cities. Lawless rural landscapes. A long and unforgiving history. Here is where the winds blow cold and the nights are long. An actor takes his preparation a little too seriously. An elderly victim avenges a crime from… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
240pp Paperback
1 May 2025
ISBN: 9781915368911
RRP: £10.99
Dead Ink
1966, China is on the cusp of a decade of upheaval, and the furnaces of Old Kiln have never been this cold. The village’s once-famed ceramics production has almost ground to a halt. Only ancient grudges smoulder beneath its poverty-stricken streets,… Read more →
• Fiction
960pp Paperback | AI
30 May 2025
ISBN: 9781838905262
RRP: £19.99
Sinoist Books
FROM THE FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PAGE TURNER AWARDS “THE MATRIX” MEETS THE FOREVER WAR IN JAMES KINSLEY’S BREATHTAKING SCI-FI ACTION ADVENTURE Two worlds. One mind. Endless uncertainty. Jeff is stuck in the mundane now, drifting through aimless days an… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
210pp paperback
22 May 2025
ISBN: 9781917090070
RRP: £9.99
Deixis Press
You followed me in And you crackle alive… Could call you By my name now you look like the first man. I fashion you into him. I make you my weapon. Feeling deadly? With London serving as the backdrop for the collection, its lights, concrete and… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
80pp Paperback
15 May 2025
ISBN: 9781804471456
RRP: £8.99
Renard Press
In Silk Work, Imogen Cassels’ debut collection, desire and grief are a double-edged subject, elucidated through a kind of lyric diffidence. Forms, translations, folksongs, geographies of longing, and the work of memory are interplayed, though always… Read more →
• Poetry
72pp Paperback
15 May 2025
ISBN: 9781913513726
RRP: £12.99
Prototype
A group of pilgrims assembles at the Tabard Inn in Southwark and sets out for the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury. Along the way they tell tales to one another, painting pictures of their varied lives. When The Canterbury Tales first appeared… Read more →
Adult • FictionPoetry
96pp Paperback
31 May 2025
ISBN: 9781804471210
RRP: £5.99
Renard Press
An all-female crime gang wreaks havoc in 1920s Glasgow. The first policewoman is determined to bring them down. When whispers of abuse at Arrol’s department store reach Mabel, a determined policewoman, she knows she must act. Enlisting the help of Jo… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
276pp Paperback
1 May 2025
ISBN: 9781915789402
RRP: £11.99
Fly on the Wall Press
In her final year of university, Tenaya wants only to escape. With her degree, she plans to leave her town, break free from her abusive stepmother and boss, and start fresh with her brother. But her curiosity about magic deepens when the “Outliars”—a… Read more →
YA • Fiction
250pp Paperback
15 May 2025
ISBN: 9781911740032
RRP: £12.99
Palavro Publishing
The Photographer’s quest to capture a mysterious creature within a frame starts them both on parallel journeys. The city is in turmoil; all eyes are on a naked young man who transforms into a tree by nightfall. As the Photographer tries to rescue him… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
320pp Paperback
27 May 2025
ISBN: 9781738555291
RRP: £13.99
Afsana Press
Until the 1920s, Perth hadn’t spread much beyond what we call, nowadays, the ‘town centre’. In that tight space, some 30,000 people lived in small, cramped and often unsanitary conditions without the means to keep themselves and their homes clean to… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
88pp PB
5 May 2025
ISBN: 9781913836481
RRP: £9.99
Tippermuir Books
‘Urgent, memorable and deeply human …’ – Ann Morgan From the author of There’s a Monster Behind the Door, longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, comes the fictionalized biography of Edmond Albius. Bélem reimagines 19th-century Reunion… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
224pp Paperback
1 May 2025
ISBN: 9781739842383
RRP: £13
Bullaun Press
The Romanian writer Mircea Eliade is best known in the English-speaking world as an influential Historian of Religion, author of such works as The Sacred and the Profane and The Myth of the Eternal Return. However, Eliade’s body of work is much broad… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
280pp paperback
30 May 2025
ISBN: 9781912545513
RRP: £13.99
Istros Books
Onstage at a Las Vegas convention, Elo Ó hAllmhuráin, a world-famous tech magnate, demonstrates a time machine, catapulting himself and journalist Dory Silver into the distant future. Stranded and desperate to get home to her dying partner, Dory is f… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
208pp Paperback
14 May 2025
ISBN: 9781804471418
RRP: £10
Renard Press
Falling into trap of writing commercially successful literary fiction, sure to alienate literary critics of yore, May Sinclair’s reputation has been unfairly diminished in recent years – although in her day she drew the praise of writers as respected… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
208pp Paperback
19 May 2025
ISBN: 9781804471487
RRP: £8.99
Renard Press
Was it pure chance that he had run into her so soon? Philip had never believed in destiny, and his father had believed in nothing but his own genius. And yet… From the moment recent Oxford graduate Philip takes the helm of a new marine life institute… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
264pp Paperback
6 May 2025
ISBN: 9781804471357
RRP: £10
Renard Press
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