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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.

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 has given us a book that should be essential reading for all those who care about our history, in particular the devastating legacy of slavery . . . She 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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Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Centre of the World

By Eliane Brum, translated by Diane Whitty

Eliane Brum recounts her move from São Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been devastated by the construction of one of the largest dams in the world. Brum seeks to ‘reforest’ herself while building relationships with forest peoples who carry both the scars and the resistance of the forest in their bodies. 

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‘Compulsive reading, bursting with tenderness while remaining uncompromising in its assessments and realisations. Take note: this astonishing book announces the arrival of a rare voice, wise beyond her years. Perhaps beyond all of ours.’ “After she left I wondered, had I been spirited away, or had she? Was I still in the real world, or was this some kind of bad copy? What if my mother was looking everywhere for me, calling my name? What if I could fall backwards out of this poor, faded replica of reality and land in the middle of a bed of spurge, look up and see my mother sitting under the apple tree threading her needle to sew my name onto school clothes I would never have to wear?” Reposting this exciting subscription reveal from the fab team at @goodbooksbristol: Priya Hein’s 🌼 RIAMBEL 🌼 The Parenthood Dilemma: Decisions in Our Age of Uncertainty, by journalist Gina Rushton. 2 years after we published this enthralling debut, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes is still starting conversations on race and the justice system. Tonight’s captivating panel event with author Elizabeth Chakrabarty was at @ucl, headed up by the qUCL team “Why is @priyahein’s debut published only a month ago, so hard to obtain??!!!!! There’s been a lot of talk about the exquisite cover of Riambel by Priya Hein. With art direction by Luke Bird, the cover features an electric myriad of Mauritian flora painted by Mauritian artist Mila Gupta, here pictured showing some of her work to author Priya Hein 🌸🌺🌼 We couldn’t have dreamed of a more perfect cover for the story of Riambel! Signed copies of Riambel, the devastating new novel from Priya Hein, are available direct from our website! We gift wrap each order and include a handwritten note, which makes a thoughtful gift for friends, mothers, lovers, and bookish folk. Confront the destruction of the Amazon with BANZEIRO ÒKÒTÓ: THE AMAZON AS THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD. 'With this heart that forgets how to beat in the conventional rhythm, my insomnia sails me along. My blood has turned to water, and sometimes I feel a fish tickling my pancreas. Other times, I am poisoned through and through by the mercury that gold miners dump in the river's veins and in their own. I squirm, go mutant, and my gills rot away.' Constance author Joseph Zigmond has been very busy dropping proofs of his debut to local Brighton and Hove bookshops. Catch him and his toddler-publicist at a bookshop near you very soon! A trip to Bath wouldn’t be complete without a visit to Topping & Co Booksellers, made better with the discovery of two new Indigo Press titles on their fiction table!

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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Delve into our collection of long-form essays by leading international writers responding to pressing social and political issues of our time.

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.

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

Laura Trethewey
race, water & the coming storm

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Meet Richard Seymour, author of The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism & Barbarism

Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Against Austerity and  Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics. His writing appears in the The New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Prospect, Jacobin, and innumerable other places including his own Patreon. He is an editor at Salvage magazine.

His book The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism & Barbarism is available to buy now.

Author photograph © Marta Corada

‘A rousing and impassioned plea for climate sanity.

A howl of grief and a rallying cry.’

Cal Flyn, Author of Islands of Abandonment: Life in the post-human landscape
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