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


Sylvia would have liked him vastly better without his gun; she could not understand why he killed the very birds he seemed to like so much.’ A tale for our times, ‘A White Heron’ follows Sylvia, a young woman who moves from the city to live with her… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
224pp Paperback
15 February 2026
ISBN: 9781804470992
RRP: £7.99
Renard Press

After the death of her steady, constraining husband, Catherine discovers that grief can be a liberation. With her adult children appalled by her sudden transformations, and a strangely familiar presence in the house urging her on, she begins to test… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
144pp Paperback | AI
10 February 2026
ISBN: 9781804471968
RRP: £10
Renard Press

Let’s face it – relationships are hard. In the beginning, it’s all fireworks and butterflies. Then life happens. In Get Real, Carmel Wynne cuts through the typical relationship advice fluff and tackles what’s really going on when partners drift apart… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
224pp Paperback
2 February 2026
ISBN: 9781917453202
RRP: €16.99
Mercier Press

In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him there. Dark, complex and visceral, Keshed is an unflinching c… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
400pp Paperback | AI
12 February 2026
ISBN: 9781738466764
RRP: £12.99
Ortac Press

There’s a particular kind of magic that happens when a book is born out of conversation – when ideas are shaped not in isolation, but in the lively, generous space between people. We invited poets Ella Duffy and Adam Horovitz to collaborate on a poet… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
36pp Paperback
2 February 2026
ISBN:
RRP: £10.00
Dialect Press

Some creative partnerships begin with a plan; others begin with a spark. Sardines, the new collaborative pamphlet from poets Vasiliki Albedo and Lucy Holme, began with something stranger and more serendipitous: a misremembered remembered Frank O’Hara… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
72pp Paperback
2 February 2026
ISBN:
RRP: £10.00
Dialect Press

Gilberte is a Trinidad-born writer. She has also lived in the USA, and the UK, where she currently resides. Some of Gilberte’s poems have been published in print and online magazines in the UK, USA, Europe, Australia and The Caribbean. OUR FIRST PUBL… Read more →
• Poetry
71pp Paperback
2 February 2026
ISBN:
RRP: £10
Lost Souls Events

An extraordinary writer whose work has long been woefully neglected in English translation, Quiroga’s tales – and the life of the writer behind them – are a fever dream of morbidity and horror. Frequently compared to the works of Edgar Allan Poe, thi… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
224pp Paperback
17 February 2026
ISBN: 9781804470923
RRP: £9.99
Renard Press

Born in East Berlin, Julia is eight when her actress mother uproots her family of four girls, by different fathers, heading West in search of a better life. Their eventual landing in the remote countryside of Schleswig-Holstein solves no problems for… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
304pp Paperback | AI
5 February 2026
ISBN: 97817593021
RRP: £12.99
Moth Books
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