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
In rural Transylvania, a young wife fearing for her unborn child takes a cart ride through all-enveloping snow. That child, Samuel, grows up under the brutal Ceausescu regime in Romania, where language masks truth and even minor acts have repercussio… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
188pp Paperback
26 June 2025
ISBN: 9781917593007
RRP: £9.99
Moth Books
Two broken cops. One irretrievably damaged and the other an outcast. Dóra struggles to cope with life after taking a bullet to the head. Rado is the child of refugees, his career shunted off the tracks due to his family conenctions to an organised cr… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
280pp Hardback/Paperback
12 June 2025
ISBN: 9781739298999
RRP: £9.99
Corylus Books
‘All things considered, I wonder if shooting that policeman made me the man that I am?’ In this masterful new work, award-winning author Theo Dorgan has written a philosophical thriller of extraordinary depth. An Irishman in Paris considers the weigh… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
384pp Paperback
12 June 2025
ISBN: 9781917453196
RRP: €16.99
Mercier Press
The debut collection of genre-defying short stories from the Korean Literature and Society’s New Writer Award. Seven diversely wild and gripping stories – dreamy, dark, lyrical and wry – that expose the oddness of how we live and how we might come to… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
200pp Paperback
3 June 2025
ISBN: 9781068355509
RRP: £10.99
Scratch Books
FROM HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR STEVEN BERNSTEIN; ALSO A JUNE WORLDWIDE FILM RELEASE. Against the backdrop of an earthquake-ravaged Los Angeles, ‘Get Rich Quick’ follows one man’s desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin. Marlon, grappling with a… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
190pp Paperback
2 June 2025
ISBN: 9781915789464
RRP: £10.99
Fly on the Wall Press
First published in 1928, Federico García Lorca’s collection of Gypsy Ballads (Romancero gitano) marked his first major publication, and the beginning of his rise to fame. Depicting life in his native Andalucía, and the Romany peoples who lived there,… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
128pp Paperback
5 June 2025
ISBN: 9781804471234
RRP: £8.99
Renard Press
Long, long ago in Japan there lived an old man and his wife. The old man was a good, kind-hearted, hard-working old fellow … First published in 1903, Japanese Fairy Tales is a classic compendium of Japanese folklore. From the stirring opening tale of… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
256pp Paperback
2 June 2025
ISBN: 9781804471500
RRP: £8.99
Renard Press
Peer through the keyhole and you’ll see a mysterious dinner party with a sickening twist; a woman’s intense new relationship with a single father and his strangely shy daughter; the rediscovered journals of a famous artist with a singular obsession w… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
192pp Paperback
12 June 2025
ISBN: 9781915368829
RRP: £10.99
Dead Ink
Growing up in a glittering new decade of possibility, Anran is radically different to her sister. Outspoken and idealistic, she relishes in challenging hypocrisy, unlike the older Anjing, whose memories of a turbulent past remind her of the perils of… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
172pp Hardback | AI
27 June 2025
ISBN: 9781838905903
RRP: £14.99
Sinoist Books
Widely considered as the best Vietnamese gay fiction, Parallels is Vũ Đình Giang’s debut novel. G.g, H, and Kan are young, and homosexual. They soon find themselves caught up in a ménage à trois that forces them to grapple with devastating consequenc… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
280pp Paperback | AI
30 June 2025
ISBN: 9781917233064
RRP: £12.99
Major Books
Micropublishing is neither fish nor fawl. It falls between the two stools of self-publishing and small (but larger) indies. Micros might only publish a few books a year but they operate with their own logic, have distinct goals, and use tools differ… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
170pp Paperback
19 June 2025
ISBN: 9781910461785
RRP: £14.99
Claret Press
Welcome to the village of Spit, where Danny Mulcahy is losing the run of himself, and where, as he and his friends dream of escaping, an unexpected death sets the rumour mill into motion. Suffering an unexplained, perpetual banishment the Spook of Sp… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
304pp Paperback
17 June 2025
ISBN: 9781068716218
RRP: £10.99
époque press
It’s the off-season in the seaside resort town of Blackpool, where Tommy never imagined he would return. His relationship has broken down, so he returns home to keep an eye on his widower father. While counting down the hours before attending the fun… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
130pp Paperback
26 June 2025
ISBN: 9781739458089
RRP: £12.99
Wild Hunt Books
A love triangle plays out against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is 1989, and in a small Baltic city in East Germany, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, three young people from vastly different backgrounds become friends. Armando i… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
330pp Paperback
19 June 2025
ISBN: 9781915789389
RRP: £12.99
Fly on the Wall Press
WINNER OF THE VIRGINIA PRIZE FOR FICTION Roly is walking her favourite cliff path when a storm blows in. While sheltering in a small cave, she becomes trapped. With little hope of rescue, memories of love and loss come flooding back. Her only compani… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
300pp Paperback
3 June 2025
ISBN: 9781910798683
RRP: £11.99
Aurora Metro Books
A Multilingual Journey with Jèssica Pujol Duran To One / To Multiple is a collection of multiple series of poetry that the poet Jèssica Pujol Duran wrote living in and out of London between 2013 and 2020. It contains a multiplicity of referenc… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
112pp Paperback
1 July 2025
ISBN: 9781915341198
RRP: £15
Pamenar Press
Vocal Inhabitants is an anthology of new experimental writing and visual art. “My own material existence I am reasonably assured of. I can imagine my friend at the other end of the line. But between us two there is an airy nowhere, inhabited by voice… Read more →
Adult • FictionPoetry
120pp Paperback
16 June 2025
ISBN: 9781739784027
RRP: £11
Strange Region
The experience of displacement can leave children with overwhelming feelings they don’t always understand. Inspired by stories and conversations with refugee children, this heart-warming and empowering book delves into the complex emotions associated… Read more →
Children's • Fiction
30pp Paperback
30 June 2025
ISBN: 9781911740025
RRP: £12.99
Palavro Publishing
Clova, Scotland, 1942. The midst of the Second World War. Sisters Nell and Effie Anderson live together in the Old Schoolhouse. Effie is a teacher, while Nell works as a postwoman, delivering news – often of the worst – from the frontline to her neig… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
304pp Paperback
5 June 2025
ISBN: 9781916812475
RRP: £10.99
Saraband
Helena is a middle-aged, unfulfilled library assistant. She’s single, lives in a grotty studio flat, and is in constant pain. She wishes her boss would just let her disappear between the pages in the library’s History section. But then history comes… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
320pp Paperback
1 July 2025
ISBN: 9781917849012
RRP: £13.99
UpLit Press
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