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The Indigo Press is an independent publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, based in London. Guided by a spirit of internationalism, feminism and social justice, we publish books to make readers see the world afresh, question their behaviour and beliefs, and imagine a better future.
Sanderling
Tamarin
Summer at Mount Asama
Paradise Garden
Land of Hope
I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY
Sanderling
By Anne Weber
How do you live with a history you canโt escape? What did it mean to be German one hundred years ago? And what is it like today? These are the questions at the heart of Sanderling, a classic work of literary inquiry by Anne Weber, one of Germanyโs leading contemporary authors.
โa searing examination of family and historical legacy, of how the past extends into the present.โ
โThe Observer
Tamarin
By Priya Hein
Tamarin Bay, Mauritius, is a travel agentโs paradise: a tropical ocean, fishermen unloading their daily catch, children building sandcastles, surfers riding giant waves.
But just along the shoreline is the beach of La Preneuse, the taker of souls. The island is haunted with tragedy and the remnants of colonial rule.
โ[a] vivid examination of love, generational trauma and how the impact of slavery still haunts Mauritian lives.โ
โNational Geographic Traveller
Designing Hope: Visions to Shape Our Future
By Sarah Housley
When did we stop dreaming of a better future?
What happened to the sci-fi golden age of the 1950s, when futurism flourished as a discipline and drove innovation?
โWeโve stopped believing in or imagining a future. Thatโs deadly. Housleyโs visionary yet bracingly practical book is an antidote to despair and a manual for our very survival.โ
Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild
The Bitter Water of the Lake
By Giulia Caminito
Winner of the Campiello Prize, The Bitter Water of the Lake is an unflinching portrait of a generation striving to make a place for themselves in a world markedly different from the one their parents promised them.
โUnique, incisive, at once intimate and expansive, unsparing and ironic . . . At times lustful, at times harrowing, the story has a deep sense of searching, without apology yet with ferocity, for what might become a meaningful life.โ
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, author of Between Dog and Wolf
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And I Am The Arrow£12.99 -
The Spinster Cookbook£14.99 -
No Such Thing as Monday£14.99
I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY
By Marni Appleton
Photos of women eating go viral, a cookie communicates a threat, and women working dead-end jobs become entangled in the performances around them. Everyday experiences of friendship, family, dating and desire catapult the reader into a creepy vortex of horror.
โThese beautifully written, female-focused stories stayed with me long past closing the cover.
Sensual, alive and haunting. Dark wisps of womanhood.โ
โLucy Prebble, Executive Producer and writer on the Bafta, Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning HBO drama Succession
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Calls May be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes
By Katharina Volckmer
Should we really ever bring our whole selves to work?
In a London call centre, Jimmie helps holiday makers with myriad problems, but he is hardly a model employee. He doesnโt simply provide customer service to his clients and advice to his colleagues, he gets involved in their fantasies and frustrations, and now heโs about to be hauled up in front of the boss.
‘This book is filled with brilliant dialogue, unexpected turns, some very dirty talk with sudden bursts of hilarity, and then fierce sadness. It is highly original. It gives pleasure on every page.’
โ Colm Tรณibรญn, author of Brooklyn and Long Island
Paradise Garden
by Elena Fischer
Longlisted for the German Book Prize 2023, Paradise Garden is a spellbinding journey and a deeply affecting story of class, resilience and belonging.
Mesmerisingly addictive and exquisitely translated by Alexandra Roesch, Paradise Garden was longlisted for the German Book Prize 2023 and is already an international bestseller that has also been optioned for film. Weโre not surprised. Author Fischer, 38, from Mainz, is one to watch.
The Sunday Post
Pearl by Siรขn Hughes
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing.
Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her motherโs love and struggles to adjust to a life without her.
‘Pearl, an exceptional debut novel, is both a mystery story and a meditation on grief. The degree of difficulty in writing a book of this sort โ at once quiet and hugely ambitious โ is very high.’
โ The Booker Prize judges 2023
Do you know about our Mood Indigo essay series?
Delve into our collection of long-form essays by leading international writers responding to pressing social and political issues of our time.
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The Revolution Will Be Internalised: On the unlikely politics of inner prepping£9.99 -
The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry£9.99 -
Burnt Eucalyptus Wood: On Origins, Language and Identity£9.99 -
The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism & Barbarism£9.99 -
Chauvo-Feminism: On Sex, Power and #MeToo£7.99 -
An Artificial Revolution: On Power, Politics & AI£8.99 -
I Choose Elena: On Trauma, Memory and Survival£8.99 -
These Bones Will Rise Again£7.99
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
By Patrรญcia Melo, translated by Sophie Lewis
From bestselling novelist Patrรญcia Melo comes a masterful thriller that is by turns poetic, inspiring, humorous and harrowing.
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman is a psychological trip with a twist. Itโs about the strength of individuals in the face of overwhelming violence, the problem of femicide in Brazil, and the haunting of a cold case.
You never imagine that a guy like this, a Wittgenstein reader and yoga fan, will hit you in the face at a lawyersโ New Yearโs Eve party.
But the statistics show that it happens a lot. And that lots of men donโt stop at a slap. Theyโd actually rather kill you.
Books on Climate Change
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Designing Hope: Visions to Shape our Future£14.99 -
Banzeiro รkรฒtรณ: The Amazon as the Centre of the World£13.99 -
Charleston: Race, Water & the Coming Storm£13.99 -
Constance£11.99 -
Tomorrow Is Too Late: An International Youth Manifesto For Climate Justice£12.99 -
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science£12.99
Between Dog and Wolf
By Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Moscow, 1985. Four teenagers โ Anya, Milka, Petya and Aleksey, whose lives, like those of their Western counterparts, are fuelled by sex, alcohol and cigarettes โ yearn for a world of Leviโs, Queen, foreign travel and the freedom to choose their fates. Instead, they encounter heartbreak and tragedy, while all around them Soviet policies, cruel but familiar, are giving way to untested concepts such as glasnost and perestroika and a brief flourishing of hope before the next repressive regime take root.
The Song of The Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood & Poetry
By Tamarin Norwood
A few months into pregnancy, Tamarin Norwood learned that the baby she was carrying would not live. Over the sleepless weeks that followed, Tamarin, her husband and their three-year-old son tried to navigate the unfamiliar waters of anticipatory sorrow and to prepare for what was to come.
