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
A Quarter Dead and Half Alive is a beautifully crafted, wide-ranging collection that lingers on the intersection of humanity and the environment. Foregrounding ageing parents and new family members arriving, and zooming out to take in the beauty of t… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
160pp Paperback
25 September 2025
ISBN: 9781804471609
RRP: £10
Renard Press
In the not-too-distant future, Australia’s eastern states have become the world’s newest autocracy – a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy and moral indecency is punished with indefinite detention. Julian Ferryman, bass player f… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
368pp Paperback
4 September 2025
ISBN: 9781915368881
RRP: £10.99
Dead Ink
What happened, nobody saw, but everybody knew… Why should blood on the floor make anyone mad against automobiles and telephones and desks. Why. This is what happened.’ Written in 1933, immediately following the publication of the wildly successful Au… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
128pp Paperback
25 September 2025
ISBN: 9781804471708
RRP: £7.99
Renard 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 Romani peoples who lived there,… Read more →
Adult • Poetry
128pp Paperback
5 September 2025
ISBN: 9781804471234
RRP: £8.99
Renard Press
What you spy is what you get. Or is it? When a child trafficking network sets up a fake student exchange programme, families from around the world fall for it. Seventeen-year-old Kendall jets off on what she believes will be a Californian adventure.… Read more →
YAAdult • Fiction
266pp Paperback
11 September 2025
ISBN: 9781910461846
RRP: £12.99
Claret Press
FROM THE FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PAGE TURNER AWARDS, AND THE AUTHOR OF PLAYTIME’S OVER Michael’s father didn’t leave much behind. A handful of battered paperbacks, a few family photos, and an ancient tape recorder – the scattered remains of an old man’… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
96pp Paperback
25 September 2025
ISBN: 9781917090193
RRP: £7.99
Deixis Press
Liverpool, 2055. The arctic melt has changed the world for ever and nearly everyone Megan loves is dead. Having been institutionalised, her only hope is to persuade Jay to help her escape to freedom. But why would the son of an elite family risk ever… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
310pp Hardback
23 September 2025
ISBN: 9781915073464
RRP: £16.99
SRL Publishing
Thirteen-year-old genius Eva Johnson doesn’t want to move to London with an aunt she barely knows. Eva’s inventor father says he must travel to find work, but why is he being so mysterious about it? Surely he realises that guarding her sister Ann’s s… Read more →
Children's • Fiction
262pp Paperback
2 September 2025
ISBN: 9781917849029
RRP: £11.99
UpLit Press
Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing invites you to turn the way you read upside down and see what falls out. Drawing on an approach to reading developed over more than a decade of interactions with stories and book-lovers around the world t… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
224pp Paperback
1 October 2025
ISBN: 9781804471326
RRP: £10
Renard Press
A memoir of place, memory and motion, of seafarers, and the author’s connections to them and to the sea. Linda Cracknell’s quest to learn more about her seafaring family history brings her to a blustery harbour. As she throws a line to pull in a boat… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
240pp Paperback
4 September 2025
ISBN: 9781916812505
RRP: £12.99
Saraband
A lively, sharp and thought-provoking exploration of the enduring stereotype of the dangerous single woman in popular culture. From the obsessive ‘bunny boiler’ of Fatal Attraction to the tabloid frenzy over Taylor Swift’s relationship status, Caroli… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
288pp Paperback
18 September 2025
ISBN: 9781916812543
RRP: £12.99
Saraband
Phil Osgood has it all. The wonderful wife, the fabulous kids, the lucrative career. He really only has one problem. He’s bored. Quietly, Phil steps out of his lane and moonlights with a local detective. It’s a good compromise. What starts as a diver… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
248pp Paperback
25 September 2025
ISBN: 9781910461860
RRP: £12.99
Claret Press
It is a new year and the Covid pandemic is a distant memory for the residents of Wilton Close. If only the sudden death of neighbour Tara Sanderson wasn’t still haunting some of them. But Tara is very much alive in memories, and consciences – in part… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
398pp Paperback
16 September 2025
ISBN: 9781915817853
RRP: £10.99
Hobeck Books
Although 80 per cent of Britian’s bogs and peatlands have been drained, stripped or irreversibly damaged over the last 200 years, they still contain more carbon than all the forests in UK, France and Germany combined. Often viewed as wasteland, these… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
380pp Paperback | AI
15 September 2025
ISBN: 9781915068514
RRP: £20.00
Little Toller Books
After her boat capsizes, Nine-year old Nefele is washed up on the Floating Forest, an infamous mythical prison-island, holding onto her father’s corpse and with little chance to survive in the wild. It appears miraculous that a herd of native elks gu… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
152pp Paperback
23 September 2025
ISBN: 9781068520754
RRP: £9.99
Ghost Orchid Press
An errant crisp packet is all that stands between DI Alex Scrimgeour being murdered on his way to work. Who would want Alex dead? Or was it perhaps a case of mistaken identity? If the bullet wasn’t meant for Alex, then who was it meant for and why? A… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
332pp Paperback
30 September 2025
ISBN: 9781915817877
RRP: £10.99
Hobeck Books
THE GRANDMOTHER By Božena Němcová Translated by Susan Reynolds A grandmother passes on her wisdom to her neighbours, friends and grandchildren in rural Bohemia. A fine example of 19C proto-feminist fiction. It was first published in 1855 and is a del… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
300pp Paperback
18 September 2025
ISBN: 9781914990298
RRP: £14.99
Jantar Publishing
When a butterfly flaps its wings in the Caribbean, it causes storms in Europe. The British King and Prime Minister have arrived in Georgetown, Guyana, along with the leaders of the other fifty-five countries in the Commonwealth, for its biennial meet… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
302pp Paperback
23 September 2025
ISBN: 9781915817891
RRP: £10.99
Hobeck Books
Antisocial behaviour is on the rise on the streets of Liverpool. Swift and silent, a sinister gang is patrolling the city on electric motorbikes, scouting for opportunities to steal. DI April Decent and her trusted team of detectives are facing a com… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
258pp Paperback
9 September 2025
ISBN: 9781915817839
RRP: £8.99
Hobeck Books
Winner of the 2015 Nin Award, the most prestigious literary prize in Serbia The news of his mother’s death finds the writer in Budapest and prompts the opening of an old black box of family mementos. Inevitably, this leads to an unravelling of multi-… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
264pp Paperback | AI
8 September 2025
ISBN: 9781912545544
RRP: £13.99
Istros Books
Whenever he told a lie, something strange would happen. So begins The Last Pomegranate Tree, a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical allegory, set in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s rule and Iraq’s Kurdish conflict. An inlet to t… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
288pp Paperback with French flaps | AI
16 September 2025
ISBN: 9781738555284
RRP: £15.99
Afsana Press
Death hides in the detail. He hides in plain sight. Pencil-pushing risk-analyst Luke Smith finds himself with a bounty on his head, the police, the public and a paid assassin on his tail. A file accidentally sent to him in a high-stakes Initial Publi… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
214pp Paperback
18 September 2025
ISBN: 9781910461822
RRP: £12.99
Claret Press
Richard’s sister Julie returns home from a mysterious wellness facility in remote Cumbria in 1994. He’s convinced that this place was a cult and was the cause of his sister’s eventual suicide. Finally, after years as an unaccomplished academic, he de… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
194pp Paperback | AI
18 September 2025
ISBN: 9781068563126
RRP: £12.99
Wild Hunt Books
From the Author of ‘The Biggerers’ comes an urgent dystopian tale of Britain’s future… As rising seas threaten to engulf Britain, four lives are on the brink: Pinko, a privileged heir clinging to decadence; Jane, a working-class veterinary nurse ra… Read more →
Adult • Fiction
320pp Paperback
1 October 2025
ISBN: 9781915789440
RRP: £12.99
Fly on the Wall Press
This Is Not a Cookbook uniquely blends memoir with food writing alongside evocative lithographic artwork. The vignettes in the book chronicle Manouchehri’s childhood growing up in Tehran in the 80s following the Iranian Revolution, the profound influ… Read more →
Adult • Non-fiction
unknownpp Paperback | AI
29 September 2025
ISBN: 9781915017062
RRP: €20
Skein Press
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