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
Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a trace. But then she gets a call—there is a man on the porch of her childhood home, and he’s asking for her.… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
368pp Paperback | AI
19 February 2026
ISBN: 9781917792103
RRP: £11.99
Dead Ink
A Visitation of Spirits is the powerful story of Horace Cross, a popular and highachieving sixteen-year-old boy, who wrestles with the guilt of discovering who he is, a young man attracted to other men and yearning to escape the narrow confines of Ti… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
320pp Paperback | AI
5 February 2026
ISBN: 9781917792042
RRP: £10.99
Dead Ink
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
Bear comes to realise that joyfulness is better than technical perfection. Bear loves to dance, and spends all day perfecting his moves. But he’s always dancing by himself – and some dances need two. Will he ever be able to find an equally perfect da… Read more →
Children's • Fiction
32pp Hardback | AI
5 February 2026
ISBN: 9781836300403
RRP: £12.99
Scallywag Press
Crossing Paths is a collaboration between Richard Skinner and Jean Atkin, both keen walkers, both of whose work is informed by the natural world and the human experience of exploring it. Crossing Paths is a book of poems about walking, place, nomencl… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
27pp Paperback
12 February 2026
ISBN: 9781068779954
RRP: £10.99
Black Cat Poetry Press
Galloway, the perennial land of ‘No’, no independence, no national park, no radical politics, was once an independent, autonomous state with a small mercantile Empire and a foreign policy independent of Scotland’s. In Curious Histories & Question… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
96pp Paperback
11 February 2026
ISBN: 9781913836573
RRP: £10.00
Tippermuir Books
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
Homography: mapping multiple perspectives of a single subject; words with the same form but different meanings (see gay, story); homosexual history approached through autobiography; projective transformation (from personal to political plane). Evans… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
90pp Paperback
5 February 2026
ISBN: 9781912620388
RRP: £12.99
Inkandescent
I yearned for the scream of wind in my hair, rain on my skin, pulse numbing cold and took to the downs, lugged memories along deer tracks… A conference of whispering trees, an inquisitive bee, a raging skull in search of its body, the graveside livin… Read more →
• Fiction
96pp Paperback
25 February 2026
ISBN: 9781916083356
RRP: £9.99
Road Song Books
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
The blissful image of having a child is a far cry from Leah’s reality. While other mums are loving life, she feels like a shadow of her former self, and every day is a struggle to cope with her screaming one-year-old daughter, Kiki. Urged by her fami… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
372pp Paperback | AI
24 February 2026
ISBN: 9781915073570
RRP: £11.99
SRL Publishing
Two brothers wrestle, a bird lies in a young boy’s hand, an entire field lives within the eye of a needle. Noon is a sparkling debut from Birmingham-born poet Zain Rishi, exploring home, family and faith. From the heat of the school relay and his gra… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
36pp Paperback | AI
19 February 2026
ISBN: 9781915628527
RRP: £7.99
The Emma 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
What was the Sphinx for, and what is the Sphinx? The Sphinx’s body is not a lion, but another creature. The head was re-carved, and the Pharaoh’s face can now be identified. There is a burial chamber inserted beneath the waist of the Sphinx. 280 year… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
482pp hardback | AI
15 February 2026
ISBN: 9781913378158
RRP: £35.00
Eglantyne Books
A lyrical and personal account of Jim Crumley’s lifelong quest to find harmony in nature as he celebrates our precious planet. Renowned nature writer Jim Crumley draws on more than six decades of immersion in wild landscapes to explore the profound h… Read more →
• Non-fiction
208pp Paperback
12 February 2026
ISBN: 9781916812536
RRP: £12.99
Saraband
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
‘…a small but very special masterpiece.’ Stephen Moss First published in 1927, The Charm of Birds was an immediate bestseller, and combined an amateur ornithologist’s keen eye with enthusiasm and a remarkably modern sensibility and style. In particul… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
214pp Paperback | AI
3 February 2026
ISBN: 9781915068545
RRP: £15.00
Little Toller Books
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
Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese “reversible” poem, 回 / Return is engaged in the act of looking back—toward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into th… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
101pp Paperback | AI
28 February 2026
ISBN: 9781068751530
RRP: £16.99
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