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
Seventeen-year-old Clare Duke has always been the weird girl at school—the one obsessed with magic in a world where magic is widely ridiculed. Years of bullying finally explode into a confrontation that gets her expelled, seemingly proving everyone r… Read more →
YA • Fiction
338pp Paperback
7 July 2026
ISBN: 9781917849241
RRP: £12.99
UpLit Press
A rapturous, kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary Britain and the myriad immigrant experiences that informed it, from the 1950s to a present-day landscape of racism, class division and economic decay, told through the voices of othered outsiders wh… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
360pp Paperback | AI
9 July 2026
ISBN: 9781919184722
RRP: £12.99
Conduit Books
2026 Anniversary Edition! Updated with current research and new guidance. With 265,000 cases in the UK alone, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is more common than people may think, yet is poorly understood. Breaking Free fills this gap in knowledge, pr… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
310pp Paperback | AI
5 July 2026
ISBN: 9781911740100
RRP: £16.99
Arkbound
Steam rises from bowls of noodle soup, tender steaks are seared in butter, sand-roasted chestnuts are shared from a paper bag. Eating Air – the debut pamphlet from Suyin Du Bois – is a mouth-watering collection of poems about food, belonging and conn… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
36pp Paperback | AI
9 July 2026
ISBN: 9781915628534
RRP: £7.99
The Emma Press
Told as a series of journal entries that move backwards in time, How Do People Stay The Same follows the life of Patrick Boyd – from the present-day contentment of family life and back to a darker, lonelier childhood. How Do People Stay The Same lays… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
140pp Paperbck | AI
23 July 2026
ISBN: 9781913111755
RRP: £11.99
Galley Beggar Press
A Sudden Stitch. Unfruitful Land. A Fever. In Milk & Moon-water, Milena Williamson uncovers 11 Old English metrical charms – ancient incantations spoken to ward off harm – creatively translating them into magical and medicinal spells for the mode… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
36pp Paperback | AI
9 July 2026
ISBN: 9781915628558
RRP: £7.99
The Emma Press
Fifty-something librarian Shona McMonagle is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls with a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name. It’s 1788, and Shona has travelled back… Read more →
• Fiction
288pp Paperback
2 July 2026
ISBN: 9781916812697
RRP: £10.99
Saraband
Tracy Fuad’s second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes the fraught experience of bringing a new life into a world that is both lush and filled with gloom. A baby is born in a brutalist building; the planet shrinks under the new logic of contagion; r… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
unknownpp Paperback | AI
23 July 2026
ISBN: 9781068488078
RRP: £16.99
the87press
Sucking Face is an anthology of queer and trans kisses. Writers and artists from around the world tell us your stories of queer and trans kisses, long and soft, remembered and forgotten. The ones that nearly happened, the ones that were only dreamt… Read more →
Adult • FictionPoetry
100pp Hardback
23 July 2026
ISBN: 9781918244021
RRP: £17.99
t’ART Press
Moving through sections of varying experimentalism, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi here attempts to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood. The voices in th… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
100pp Paperback | AI
9 July 2026
ISBN: 9781068488061
RRP: £16.99
the87press
I wrote a story of the Resurrection, where Jesus gets up and feels very sick about everything, and can’t stand the old crowd any more… ‘I am risen!’ First published in 1929, The Escaped Cock – or, as it was published against Lawrence’s will upon his… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
96pp Paperback | AI
15 July 2026
ISBN: 9781804472033
RRP: £7.99
Renard Press
In this gripping memoir, Eugene Reavey takes readers on a harrowing journey through the darkest chapter of his life during the Northern Ireland Troubles. Reavey relives the tragic night in 1976 when his three brothers—John Martin, Anthony, and Brian—… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
352pp Paperback
1 July 2026
ISBN: 9781781178751
RRP: €19.99
Mercier Press
Nora is a healthy housewife who has it all. A wardrobe stocked with the latest fashion, a body decorated with jewels, and a garage full of sports cars. Her husband is the personification of a tall, handsome man and Nora doesn’t need to work a day in… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
400pp Paperback | AI
21 July 2026
ISBN: 9781915073624
RRP: £11.99
SRL Publishing
Perthshire. 1957. The Camerons arrive from a tenement in Glasgow to run a remote Scottish youth hostel, unaware they are setting in motion a terrible chain of events that will reverberate through the decades. Siblings Alison and Ewan delight in swapp… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
352pp Paperback | AI
23 July 2026
ISBN: 9781917792165
RRP: £10.99
Dead Ink
Nature has not been my cure. It has been my inspiration, teacher and companion. I am not better, but I have never been alone. These Envoys of Beauty is a carefully crafted compendium of essays in which Dr Anna Vaught explores her relationship with th… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
196pp Paperback | AI
15 July 2026
ISBN: 9781804472316
RRP: £10
Renard Press
What does it mean to be a woman? To live as a woman is so often a political act. This powerful anthology maps the journeys of women: their joys and challenges, and the defining moments that shape them. From girlhood to ageing, from love to loss, from… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
150pp | AI
7 July 2026
ISBN: 9781915789587
RRP: £12.99
Fly on the Wall Press
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