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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.

Pearl by Siân Hughes

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 mother’s love and struggles to adjust to a life without her.

‘An utterly gripping psychological mystery’

— Maureen Freely

Coming soon from The Indigo Press

Constance by Joseph Zigmond

Some nights last forever . . .

In the summer of 2006, a chance encounter on the London Underground finds eighteen-year-old Ali tagging along with a school friend and a mysterious girl to a club. The girl is Cece, and she seems to be everything Ali is not. For one night he is transfixed and transformed into someone who might belong. Constance is a novel of teenage fragility, male blindness and everyday complicity.  

‘This is a heartbreaking but ultimately hopeful book, a searing portrait of love, betrayal, redemption and complicity.’

— Laura Bates, author of Everyday Sexism and Fix the System, not the Women
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It’s not everyday you get to explore the real life setting of a novel you’ve published, but today was one of those days! Congratulations to Siân Hughes for PEARL, a gripping psychological mystery about a missing mother, set in beautiful rural Cheshire. Ennatu Domingo was adopted from Should we become parents? “A searing portrait of love, betrayal, redemption and complicity. It looks unflinchingly at our societal failings around sexual violence and the mistake we make when we fail to listen to women and survivors.” Our weekend reading plans… What are yours? Happy Publication Day to PEARL, the ‘utterly gripping’ first novel from award-winning poet Siân Hughes 🌱 "I can pinpoint the exact moment the police stopped looking for a missing woman and started looking for a dead body. One that, by now, was probably beyond recognition. It was the day they stopped phoning my father to tell him they had found ‘someone’ and started to say ‘something’. Something in woodland. Something in the river. Something." We are delighted that author Paul Behrens has been announced as a Frontiers Planet Prize International Champion 2023 for his research into the double climate benefit of a switch to plant-based diets in high-income countries! Epic Annette is coming to the US! April's SMOL subscription bundle pick from @lighthousebks, Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop, is Riambel by Priya Hein. Repost from the @thepageandthestage 😍 Earth is urging a call to action. Our home is suffering.

Burnt Eucalyptus Wood: On Origins, Language and Identity

by Ennatu Domingo

Torn between forgetting and remembering, Ennatu Domingo explores the dilemma of international adoptees and migrant children and their quest for belonging in a book destined to be a classic of its genre.

‘It is at once a love story and a battle cry, an elegy and an anthem. It is compulsive reading, bursting with tenderness while remaining uncompromising in its assessments and realisations.’

— Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
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Meet Susan Crawford, author of Charleston

Susan Crawford is the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She previously was Obama’s special assistant to the president for science, technology, and innovation policy and co-led the FCC transition team between his and the Bush administrations. As an academic, she teaches courses about climate adaptation and public leadership.

Crawford is the author of several books, including Captive Audience and Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution and Why America Might Miss It. Charleston: Race, Water and the Coming Storm is published 24 August 2023.

Author photograph © Harvard University

It’s a book that I wish every community could have for facing economic inequality, racial injustice and climate change.

Laura Trethewey, author of Imperiled Ocean: Human Stories from a Changing Sea 

Charleston: Race, Water & the Coming Storm

by Susan Crawford

An unflinching look at Charleston, a beautiful, endangered port city, founded by English settlers in 1669 as a hub of the sugar and slave trades, which now, as the waters rise, stands at the intersection of climate and race.

race, water & the coming storm

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Riambel (signed edition)

by Priya Hein

Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family. Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that is starkly different from her own ­– yet one which would have been all too familiar to her ancestors.

‘Priya Hein tells this harrowing story in the most beautiful prose, luminous and musical, drawing in the reader before hitting them hard with the reality of her young narrator’s life.’

— Ananda Devi, author of Eve Out of Her Ruins
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