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
Working-class writers are disappearing. Since 1970, the number of writers from working-class backgrounds has more than halved, while 80% of journalists now come from privileged households. As the cost of living rises and opportunities shrink, writing… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
330pp Paperback | AI
9 March 2026
ISBN: 9781738442188
RRP: £10.99
Indie Novella
An unnamed protagonist shifts, sprints, swerves and transmorphs through the “Centre!” (exclamation mark required), a research institute in some northern British city, in our current jittery moment. Glitches in reality abound: expect research into ali… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
66pp Paperback
20 March 2026
ISBN: 9781915049223
RRP: £10
sincere corkscrew
Contentious Spaces is the debut novel from acclaimed Irish writer, playwright and performer Rosaleen McDonagh. The Traveller families who live in Saint Rita’s are on borrowed time. In just a week they will be evicted by the local council, threatening… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
296pp Paperback | AI
12 March 2026
ISBN: 9781915017130
RRP: £13
Skein Press
What if your dad’s tattoos came to life when the lights went out? Cora has always loved her dad’s tattoos. He says each one is a memory he never wants to lose. But why do they sometimes seem to move… and is she the only one who can see it? One unforg… Read more →
Children's • Fiction
24pp Paperback
17 March 2026
ISBN: 9781917849210
RRP: £7.99
UpLit Press
From award-winning Slovenian novelist, Miha Mazzini, translated by Gregor Timothy Čeh She Doesn’t Exist. Neither Does Her Baby. Now What? When a “software error” erases Zala from the system, she discovers that officially, she and her ne… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
270pp Paperback | AI
24 March 2026
ISBN: 9781915789600
RRP: £12.99
Fly on the Wall Press
Felsen’s haunting follow-up to the acclaimed Deceit, a landmark of émigré fiction. Happiness (1932) is the second novel in Yuri Felsen’s cycle The Recurrence of Things Past. Written as a diary addressed to his beloved Lyolya, it unfolds as an intens… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
260pp Paperback | AI
12 March 2026
ISBN: 9781913513849
RRP: £12
Prototype
A moving and humorous verse chapter book narrated by an imaginary friend. Did you know there’s a school for imaginary friends? Well there is, and one of its star pupils is the narrator of Ray’s story! Ray loves life in his village until one day he he… Read more →
Children's • Fiction
216pp Paperback | AI
5 March 2026
ISBN: 9781836300342
RRP: £8.99
Scallywag Press
One afternoon in May,eight-year-old Ilaria gets into the car with her father, thinking they’reheading to dinner with her mother and sister. Instead, she is taken across theborder, on a whirlwind road trip around Italy with her father, from Tri-esteto… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
176pp Paperback
31 March 2026
ISBN: 9781919196008
RRP: £12.99
Linden Editions
When Ali learns that she is expecting a child with CFC syndrome, a rare genetic condition that affects the heart, face, skin, and development, her world is shaken up. Doctors tell her that her baby will not even survive pregnancy but, against all odd… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
256pp Paperback | AI
10 March 2026
ISBN: 9781738459469
RRP: £12.95
Héloïse Press
In the first quarter of the 20th century, Daniel Thaly (1879-1950) of Dominica, then a British Caribbean colony, was one of France’s most celebrated poets. He was educated in Martinique and then at medical school in France before returning to Dominic… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
360pp Paperback | AI
14 March 2026
ISBN: 9781739130398
RRP: £12.99
Papillote Press
‘…a beautiful and poignant memorial.’ Mackenzie Crook First published in 1910, Mad Shepherds, subtitled and other human stories, is an extraordinary book. The author, Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, was a philosopher, educator, writer and Unitarian minister… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
216pp Paperback | AI
18 March 2026
ISBN: 9781915068477
RRP: £15.00
Little Toller Books
George Saunders Claire-Louise Bennett Mark Haddon Camilla Grudova Amber Medland Colin Barrett Six of the best recent short stories, disassembled by their authors. Magic & Mechanics features six phenomenal stories, each followed by an interview wi… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
224pp Paperback | AI
12 March 2026
ISBN: 9781068355547
RRP: £10.99
Scratch Books
In this striking collection of short stories, written over a twenty-year period, we find Buckstein, the storyteller, at his most lyrical. Having completed his works charting the Jewish history of his family and community in the Carpathian town of Sig… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
220pp Paperback | AI
12 March 2026
ISBN: 978-1912545551
RRP: £13.99
Istros Books
SOMETHING UGLY’S WAITIN’ FOR YOU Honey’s working weekends down at the Six Mile, trying to figure her life out. Her boyfriend’s about to leave the country, her college advisor hates her guts, her momma ain’t listening, and she’s got this cop breathing… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
125pp paperback | AI
19 March 2026
ISBN: 9781917090124
RRP: £7.99
Deixis Press
A Turkish classic with over twenty million copies sold, Peyami Safa’s masterpiece, Surgical Ward 9, is finally in English. Istanbul, 1915. While the Ottoman Empire is in the thick of war and fighting for its life, an unnamed fifteen-year-old boy has… Read more →
Adult •
128pp Paperback | AI
2 March 2026
ISBN: 9781068209727
RRP: £10.99
Thousand Horsemen Press
As spring evenings lengthen over Kilnavarn House, two sisters, looking after their infirm mother, navigate the fragile territory between past and present. Memories of a troubled upbringing resurface and the house holds onto the women, as it always ha… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
288pp Paperback
19 March 2026
ISBN: 9781068716256
RRP: £10.99
époque press
‘I am fond of paintings, furniture, tapestry, houses and flowers and even vegetables and fruit trees. I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.’ First published in 1933 at the height of Stein’s popularity and literary prowess, The Au… Read more →
Adult • FictionNon-fiction
256pp Paperback
19 March 2026
ISBN: 9781804471197
RRP: £10
Renard Press
When the bones of a young woman are dug up in a farmhouse garden, P.C. Derek Maertin discovers a link between her death and pre-war English fascism. He is, however, distracted not just by the chance of a promotion to CID, which would uproot him and h… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
283pp Paperback
19 March 2026
ISBN: 9781915649553
RRP: £10.99
Diamond Books
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award 1992 Winner of the Locus Award 1992 Shortlisted for the Phillip K. Dick Award Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand – weeping not blood, but a plasma of tears… It began wit… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
256pp Paperback | AI
19 March 2026
ISBN: 9781068349737
RRP: £11.99
Dead Ink
‘The idea of the Icknield Way may conjure grandeur, but the Way as experienced and described by Thomas is varied, beautiful and ordinary, and it is precisely its everyday, changeable nature which makes it so wonderful.’ Jack Cornish In The Icknield W… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
228pp Paperback | AI
3 March 2026
ISBN: 9781915068538
RRP: £15.00
Little Toller Books
From the author of the prizewinning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes an evocative and deeply original novel that reimagines the lives of Hebrideans across the centuries, sweeping from the eighth century to the present day. Interlinked stories unfold a… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
288pp Paperback
12 March 2026
ISBN: 9781916812635
RRP: £10.99
Saraband
Sometimes murder runs in the family. Or does it? When a well-known artist is found in Snorri’s Pool with an axe buried in his chest, Stella Blómkvist is immediately thrown in at the deep end, brought in to defend the apparently harmless young man the… Read more →
• Fiction
296pp Paperback
5 March 2026
ISBN: 9781917586252
RRP: £9.99
Corylus Books
Whiting Award 2025 Winner in Poetry This extraordinary debut poetry collection by Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup delicately parses personal history in the space of an imagined museum. Outside the museum, Ggugguyni (the Dena’ina Raven) and The Museum Cu… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
96pp Paperback | AI
14 March 2026
ISBN: 9781068488016
RRP: £16.99
the87press
An International Bestseller Translated Over 20 languages On a spring day in 1998, literature professor Bluma Lennon buys a used copy of Emily Dickinson’s poems from a Soho bookshop. Moments after she starts reading it, she’s struck by a car on a stre… Read more →
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84pp Paperback | AI
2 March 2026
ISBN: 9781068209734
RRP: £10.99
Thousand Horsemen Press
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