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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
What can we learn from dragonflies, aardvarks, elephants, weeds and peat? Take a stroll through the natural world with Victoria Gatehouse and let’s find out together. From frogs with superpowers to otters with pockets, Aardvark Day is full of poems t… Read more →
Children's • Poetry
80pp Paperback | AI
14 May 2026
ISBN: 9781915628572
RRP: £9.99
The Emma Press
Against Gravity: the title alludes to our struggle with mortality as we age and, by contrast, the pleasures of play, imagination, creativity. Robert Saxton’s latest poetry book is dedicated to a friend whose heart gave out on a Scottish mountain. But… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
104pp Paperback
21 May 2026
ISBN: 9781915048325
RRP: £12.99
Two Rivers Press
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
Colleague of former detective Steph Grant at Oakwood Sixth Form College, Robin Hughes, is found dead in mysterious circumstances. The police initially conclude suicide. But who is ‘Kirsty’, the new love interest Robin met at a Grief Retreat weekend,… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
384pp Paperback
12 May 2026
ISBN: 9781918643015
RRP: £10.99
Hobeck Books
A tender yet radical father–son story, Da explores the silences that shape families and the love that survives secrecy. For readers of Avni Doshi and Kamila Shamsie. Da is a story about the bonds that define us, the weight of unspoken truths, and the… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
Unknownpp | AI
1 June 2026
ISBN: 9781915789648
RRP: £11.99
Fly on the Wall Press
An emotional, electrifying, and darkly hilarious debut about a woman who finds a dead body and can’t give up its ghost, for fans of Mona Awad, Yellowjackets, and weird girl fiction. Ava thought the great tragedy of her life would be getting stuck in… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
336pp Paperback | AI
7 May 2026
ISBN: 9781917792134
RRP: £10.99
Dead Ink
All of Drndic’s award-winning work fluctuates between fact and fiction, and ‘Dying in Toronto’ gives an account of the author’s first year in Canada as a refugee, in 1995. While the book is written in form of essays, it is clearly shaped to tell of t… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
200pp paperback | AI
27 May 2026
ISBN: 978-1912545568
RRP: £13.99
Istros Books
A hilarious battle of wills between the author and her protagonist, Fred. Fred the deer loves living in the forest Or does he? No, he says he does not! He is bored, and wants to visit the town! Once there, he wants shoes. Then he wants chips… but he… Read more →
Children's • Fiction
36pp Hardback | AI
7 May 2026
ISBN: 9781836300595
RRP: £12.99
Scallywag Press
A new graphic novel detective series, set in a vibrant African community. Ten-year-old Korobá knows everyone in Makoko, the Nigerian fishing village where she lives. The last thing Korobá would expect in Makoko is a thief. Yet Saidat’s wooden piggy b… Read more →
Children's • Fiction
144pp Paperback | AI
7 May 2026
ISBN: 9781836300649
RRP: £8.99
Scallywag Press
Originally published in 1925 but set in 2026. Metropolis, is the SF novella the famous film Metropolis is based upon. Written by Thea von Harbau, The Metropolis is a technologically advanced city, which is sustained by the existence of an exploited c… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
300pp Paperback
14 May 2026
ISBN: 9781914990274
RRP: £14.99
Jantar Publishing
Nyjah Messado is not haunted by ghosts but by a memory he can’t shake: the day he watched trainee teacher, Maude Dallmeyer dragged away by his schoolmates at his elite boys’ private school—and kept silent. The boyhood code demanded it, and that silen… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
288pp Paperback | AI
19 May 2026
ISBN: 9781913175887
RRP: £14.99
Cassava Republic Press
The subtle complexities of Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’ continues to resonate with a new generation of readers today. On Being Ill is a valuable book for everybody who wants to connect with illness, disability and care through art and litera… Read more →
YAAdult • Non-fiction
280pp paperback
18 May 2026
ISBN: 978106868044
RRP: £15.99
The New Menard Press
Over, tracks the aftermath of a breakup during the Covid19 pandemic, where the protagonists are ‘getting on,’ as the euphemism has it. In sestudes (62-word blocks), the unnamed narrator jumps in and out of moments of an apparently loving relationship… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
160pp Paperback
7 May 2026
ISBN: 9781068680458
RRP: £12.99
The New Menard Press
‘Her Black Woman’s voice rings true and deep and gentle, with an iron echo. It is merciless and vulnerable and far ranging.’ —Audre Lorde Alongside her invaluable contributions to social justice, Pat Parker (1944-1989) wrote five collections of poetr… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
161pp Paperback | AI
7 May 2026
ISBN: 9781068488009
RRP: £16.99
the87press
Somebody Should Have Pressed Record is an experimental, narrative poem depicting a woman navigating an emotionally fraught relationship with an imaginary version of Joseph Gilgun (Brassic, Misfits, This is England). Set in the gloom of her mid-thirti… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
102pp Paperback
28 May 2026
ISBN: 9781739784041
RRP: £14.00
Strange Region
The transformative power of year-round freshwater swimming. Poet and nature writer Polly Atkin invites us to take a dip in the rivers, tarns, and lakes where she swims year-round, finding inspiration and freedom every day. In this intimate, beautiful… Read more →
• Non-fiction
144pp Paperback
7 May 2026
ISBN: 9781916812383
RRP: £8.99
Saraband
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
The goblin men are here again, with their shrill repeated cry: “Come buy, come buy!” And the pixies, the pooka, the gnomes and naiads, the boggarts and brownies – European folklore fizzes with tales of wicked and winsome creatures of the woods. And w… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
60pp Paperback
1 June 2026
ISBN: 9781909560437
RRP: £8
Sidekick Books
For Zhang Zuo, his father’s darkest moments hold tender memories. Overshadowed by his intellectual forebears and abandoned by his parents, his childhood in Nanjing with his grandparents was a lonely one. When he visits his father, a scholar sent to a… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
168pp Paperback | AI
29 May 2026
ISBN: 9781838906214
RRP: £11.99
Sinoist Books
A dystopian epic of survival and memory in a climate-ravaged America Long after climate change has wiped out millions and reshaped the world, the US has ended in civil war and rule by corporations. A privileged class of oligarchs and their private se… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
264pp Hardback | AI
7 May 2026
ISBN: 9781917569231
RRP: £16.99
Extraordinary Books
The Wrong Son is a memoir of emotional precision — a searching, unsparing account of what it means to come into being in the absence of love. In 1963, a young husband loses his pregnant wife and eighteen-month-old son in a car accident. Six months la… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
250pp Paperback | AI
28 May 2026
ISBN: 9781068176692
RRP: £12.99
Weatherglass Books
The poems in Threads, Ruth O’Callaghan’s seventeenth collection of poetry, address both the personal and political. They are sometimes ironical and at others metaphorical, but they consistently engage the reader in contemplating the fact that ‘Ours a… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
96pp Paperback
21 May 2026
ISBN: 9781915048349
RRP: £12.99
Two Rivers Press
WET is an anthology of queer and trans writing about water.… Read more →
Adult • FictionPoetry
80pp Paperback
28 May 2026
ISBN: 9781918244014
RRP: £9.99
t’ART Press
Ryna comes home from abroad to the wake of her granny Darafeya in Nauhalnaye, a village in the drained marshlands near Lipen, in a remote corner of Belarus. That night as Ryna sits alone with the coffin, Darafeya, who lived to be a hundred, tells one… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
176pp Paperback | AI
1 June 2026
ISBN: 9781917653022
RRP: €12.99
Bullaun Press
Sam, a 45-year-old Londoner of dual heritage, has lived his life accompanied by voices no one else can hear. Chief among them is the taunting echo of a childhood bully who refuses to let Sam forget the guilt he carries over his mother’s death. When h… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
192pp Paperback
21 May 2026
ISBN: 9781068716270
RRP: £10.99
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