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…
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This month’s titles from our presses
Kidderminster Town Hall, July, 1910 A glittering family celebration The Stretton family spare no expense as the heads of their medical dynasty, Samuel and Kate, mark their golden wedding anniversary at Kidderminster Town Hall. Daughter Katie fights t… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
400pp Paperback | AI
28 April 2026
ISBN: 9781915817976
RRP: £10.99
Hobeck Books
Clément asks me how [the story] begins. I tell him: with your death. Against the backdrop of seaside idyll Marseille, our unnamed narrator recounts the tale of his life from seventeen to nineteen, centring on his relationship with best friend turned… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
100pp Paperback with flaps | AI
1 May 2026
ISBN: 9781804471975
RRP: £10
Renard Press
When Xavier wakes up on the first morning of an enforced family weekend away with his pregnant step-mum and dad, he doesn’t recognise where they are; it’s as if the house has inexplicably been transported to the set of a video game, inside an impenet… Read more →
YA • Fiction
336pp paperback
30 April 2026
ISBN: 9781916558434
RRP: £8.99
Guppy Books
How can I know if you are now alive? I echo thought, but cannot feel the beat. Debates around artificial intelligence continue to rage, with large-language models considered at best an irritant, or, increasingly, an existential enemy to the written w… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
40pp Paperback with flaps | AI
15 April 2026
ISBN: 9781804472002
RRP: £7.99
Renard Press
From the rainforests of Costa Rica to the Balkans and Scotland, Karen Lloyd explores the hidden life of habitats and species including sloths, the rockpool shrimp and the world’s only truly wild horse. She studies the biodiversity of urban wildflower… Read more →
• Non-fiction
288pp Paperback
2 April 2026
ISBN: 9781916812642
RRP: £12.99
Saraband
May 1951 Celebration is in the air with the Festival of Britain and for the first time in years the mood is one of hope rather than hurt. For Detective Constable Faye Smith, London is not as safe as it seems. The criminal underworld is gaining streng… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
374pp Paperback | AI
28 April 2026
ISBN: 9781915817952
RRP: £10.99
Hobeck Books
What is the future of the countryside? In a time of rapid environmental, economic, and social change, what does the countryside mean to us, and what could it become? Future Rural gathers together a powerful chorus of diverse voices—writers, farmers,… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
224pp Hardback | AI
28 April 2026
ISBN: 9781915068576
RRP: £25.00
Little Toller Books
Glitchwork tracks the uneven lineages of Central India, building on modernist legacies and reckoning with the spectres of the 1984 Bhopal disaster. Mantra Mukim’s debut poetry collection is situated in a timeless, forested grid, poised on the verge o… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
101pp Paperback | AI
16 April 2026
ISBN: 9781068488023
RRP: £16.99
the87press
An essential selection of fiction, poetry, and philosophical prose by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa that illuminates the restless brilliance of one of modern literature’s most influential voices. With a foreword by Polly Barton. Hell of Solitude presents a bol… Read more →
Adult • FictionNon-fiction
208pp Paperback | AI
16 April 2026
ISBN: 9781913513863
RRP: £12
Prototype
An Alternative History of Empire and Belief Imperium never ends. It transforms. The Marian Empire, a military theocracy sustained by hierarchy, doctrine, and the careful management of truth, has endured for centuries. Vast and unassailable, its histo… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
408pp Paperback
14 April 2026
ISBN: 9781917849197
RRP: £12.99
UpLit Press
Stella works miracles. Literally. She heals the sick and the paralysed. The Vatican is overjoyed—imagine, a real saint in the 21st century, and in Georgia, the heart of the American South. The only hitch? Her method: she heals the people she sleeps w… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
208pp Paperback
23 April 2026
ISBN: 9781916725256
RRP: £9.99
Bitter Lemon Press
When a deadly enemy from her past appears alive and well, can Michaela ‘Mike’ Kingdom finally face up to her demons? On holiday in The Gambia, Terry Bailey is enjoying his retirement from MI6 when he receives a shock. He spots a man in a car. It’s a… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
304pp Paperback | AI
14 April 2026
ISBN: 9781915817990
RRP: £10.99
Hobeck Books
Malc’s Boy charts a son’s struggle and friendship with his father amidst a legacy of toxic masculinity and violence. Shaun grows up in Wigton, a small market town on the fringes of the Lake District, as the son of Malc, a prominent publican with a fe… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
352pp Paperback | AI
23 April 2026
ISBN: 9781919184708
RRP: £12.99
Conduit Books
Deep in the French countryside, a farm is blind with secrets, and an exhausted family struggles to survive. The father can’t pay the bills, the brothers compete with one other, and the mother tries desperately to suppress the weight of the past. Enve… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
276pp Paperback
30 April 2026
ISBN: 9781068740466
RRP: £12.99
Linden Editions
Mithim by Carina McNally is a haunting historical debut novel set in 17th-century Ireland, where healer and herbalist Mithim is forced into the wild after Cromwellian forces destroy her home. Armed with ancient wisdom and a deep connection to the la… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
384pp Paperback | AI
21 April 2026
ISBN: 9781917453639
RRP: €16.99
Mercier Press
Sami, a retired doctor, lives in Brooklyn with his son and grandchildren. But he is losing his way. Every day he drifts further into dementia, pulled back into memories of the Iraq he was forced to leave after the 2003 Gulf War. Omar arrives in the U… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
240pp Hardback | AI
2 April 2026
ISBN: 9781849251235
RRP: £14.99
Saqi Books
Joan, a public servant in her fifties, is in the habit of living alone. Or rather, she’s in the habit of living with the many rituals and routines—some ordinary, some less so—that allow her to navigate her days. It’s a system that works very well for… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
162pp Paperback
28 April 2026
ISBN: 9781916914049
RRP: €15
The Stinging Fly
Justine is a vampire. Keith just lives like one. An ex-junkie and ex-rock star, his hands mangled by his dead ex’s own jealous ex, he’s let go of his ambitions. It’s true that Justine has been around for a few centuries and Keith barely three decades… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
256pp Paperback | AI
30 April 2026
ISBN: 9781917792196
RRP: £10.99
Dead Ink
Poets are, as a matter of fact, natural spies. Nondescript in appearance, they’re quick, ever-watchful, and shifty in their skins. Practised at fleeing, and at giving pursuit. Likely to reach for a pen that fires a dart. Likely, too, to cross each ot… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
60pp Paperback
1 May 2026
ISBN: 9781909560420
RRP: £8
Sidekick Books
‘Perfectly paced, hugely enjoyable, and not to be missed‘ – Gemma Fairclough, author of Bear Season We always want to protect the ones we love. They don’t always need it. 15 year old Alex loves football, hates school, and is confused by girls.… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
310pp Paperback | AI
28 April 2026
ISBN: 9781915073600
RRP: £10.99
SRL Publishing
They were meant to be dead, buried under the sand. But they survived. Two young Kurds manage to miraculously escape Saddam Hussein’s killing grounds to eventually find their way to America. A story of luck, nerve and perseverance, with many setbacks… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
320pp Paperback | AI
14 April 2026
ISBN: 9781068495830
RRP: £15.99
Afsana Press
The Weight of Quiet Things gathers essays, stories and poems that explore the deep, enduring relationship between the Scottish landscape and its people. Many of the contributing writers were born, raised and built their lives in Scotland, while a few… Read more →
Adult • FictionNon-fictionPoetry
145pp Paperback
1 April 2026
ISBN: 9781911740094
RRP: £12.99
Arkbound
The Housman family produced a dynasty of talented writers and artists, and Clemence, whose name has unfairly fallen into obscurity, produced novels that drew praise from the leading luminaries of the literary world. Drawing on folk-tale imagery, her… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
84pp Paperback | AI
15 April 2026
ISBN: 9781804471999
RRP: £8.99
Renard Press
In 1928 Virginia Woolf gave two speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of ‘Women and Fiction’ – speeches which went on to become A Room of One’s Own, one of the most important feminist texts of all time. Following the success of its p… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
224pp Paperback
15 April 2026
ISBN: 9781804470343
RRP: £7.99
Renard Press
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