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
What if clothes, more than just something to wear, can act as entry points to relationships with the dynamic living world? In short vignettes tied to the changing seasons, fashion and sustainability pioneer Kate Fletcher, challenges the illusion that… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
76pp Paperback
1 October 2026
ISBN: 9781068321566
RRP: £12.99
Quickthorn
William Scammell had only been writing poetry for twenty years when he died, just as he entered his sixties, yet – despite a series of publishing misfortunes – he left behind nine collections, and was in full flow. A feared reviewer in the popular pr… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
208pp Paperback
1 October 2026
ISBN: 9781804472101
RRP: £10.99
Renard Press
‘This was life – my life – my career, my brilliant career! I was fifteen – fifteen!’ First published in 1901, My Brilliant Career is a powerful portrayal of life in turn-of-the-century rural Australia. Young, headstrong and born into a family dogged… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
294pp Paperback
16 October 2026
ISBN: 9781804472378
RRP: £9.99
Renard Press
Welcome to the wonderful world of Pomona the Cat Witch! This witty and wise picture book from talented illustrator Tor Freeman will delight readers young and old. Pomona lives in a little house in the forest, near her friends Ratso, Prince Frog, Elfi… Read more →
Children's • Fiction
64pp hardback
8 October 2026
ISBN: 9781916558823
RRP: £14.99
Guppy Books
Reflective, eclectic and inspiringly curious, Rosie, Starfish, Breakfast is an experimental mixed-media collection that threads between geographical and digital cultures like fibre-optic cables across the seabed. Writer Zahra Hamdulay’s autofiction n… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
94pp Paperback
4 October 2026
ISBN: 9781918705041
RRP: £12
Femmesocial Press
WHAT DO WE OWE THE STRANGER? WHAT DO WE OWE THE DEAD? A Japanese man paints a second eye on a doll. A widow holds an injured gull to her chest and cries by the sea. A grieving child climbs a stack of pallets to send a lantern into the sky. A chess pl… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
226pp paperback | AI
29 October 2026
ISBN: 9781917090216
RRP: £11.99
Deixis Press
Jumping into the midst of a journey, in Prelude we find the Burnell family in a cart, removing their lives from town to a house in the Wellington countryside. Isolated but enduring, the family become rooted in the estate, caught between private passi… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
128pp Paperback
21 October 2026
ISBN: 9781804472118
RRP: £9.99
Renard Press
Atlas, the mythological symbol of strength, resilience and masculine beauty, embodies the aspirations of debut poet Henry Izard-Bater. The Birth of Atlas: Collected Works captures a trans man’s ever-growing life in its fullness, depicting romance, th… Read more →
YAAdult • Poetry
70pp Paperback
4 October 2026
ISBN: 9781918705058
RRP: £12
Femmesocial Press
A veteran of the Yugoslav Wars is hit hard by the fallout. In elegant, liquid prose Danyi conveys a bitter taste of one man’s trauma. Memories collide, expand and direct the main character, while his body is also a battleground – terror lodged deep i… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
248pp Paperback | AI
15 October 2026
ISBN: 9781917653046
RRP: £12.99
Bullaun Press
‘Where were you when the Message came through?’ THE DEVIL BY NAME opens five years after FEVER HOUSE, with survivors finally starting to find a new equilibrium in a world overrun by the zombie-like “fevered.” We meet Naomi, a teenage girl in France w… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
482pp Paperback | AI
1 October 2026
ISBN: 9781805530015
RRP: £10.99
Black Crow Books
The Elixir follows The Alchemy, a robust, frank and loving guide to an often opaque industry. As well as offering tips on working in gentle increments and re-imagining what productivity and the work of writing looks like, there is advice on sending o… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
208pp Paperback
21 October 2026
ISBN: 9781804471852
RRP: £10
Renard Press
Panait Istrati, ranked along with Maxim Gorky, Jack London, and John Steinbeck, meets English readers once again with his modern classic. The Thistles of the Baragan is the tragic but intensely vibrant story of Mataké and his lust for life, despite a… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
120pp Paperback | AI
29 October 2026
ISBN: 9781068209772
RRP: £10.99
Thousand Horsemen Press
Arachne Press has long been a champion of LGBTQ+ writers, and our first anthology of LGBTQ+ poetry Joy//Us, was something of a hit! It was a strange moment, publishing joyful poems, that celebrated all that is best about our community/ies and lives.… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
84pp paperback | AI
10 October 2026
ISBN: 9781917692045
RRP: £12
Arachne Press
Rural Anatolia, 1950s. Once the pride of the village with her thunderous gallop and commanding presence, Doru the Mare is now left to stray, roaming untethered amid the indifferent mercy of nature. As Doru fights to survive, the community she leaves… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
96pp Paperback | AI
29 October 2026
ISBN: 9781068209765
RRP: £10.99
Thousand Horsemen Press
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