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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.
The Song of The Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry (signed edition)
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.
Written partly during pregnancy and partly during the silent maternity leave that followed, The Song of the Whole Wide World is an emergency response to grief held somewhere between the womb, the grave and the many stories that bind them.
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The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
By Patrícia Melo, translated by Sophie Lewis
From bestselling novelist Patrícia 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. It’s 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 lawyers’ New Year’s Eve party.
But the statistics show that it happens a lot. And that lots of men don’t stop at a slap. They’d actually rather kill you.
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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, author of Imperiled Ocean: Human Stories from a Changing Sea
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.
Pearl by Siân 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 mother’s 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 – at once quiet and hugely ambitious – is very high.’
— The Booker Prize judges 2023
Could It Have Been Written by a Woman?
On how Susie Nicklin came to acquire Pearl
“When I was sent the manuscript entitled Pearl, by Siân Hughes, I was enchanted. Hughes’ writing is flawless, like the privy pearl without a spot; I hardly changed a word. She captures the spirit of the original and shows us consolation through legend, nursery rhymes, folk songs, as a daughter seeks to understand the reasons for the disappearance of her mother.”
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The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry (signed edition)£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
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
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
Books on Climate Change
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Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Centre of the World (signed edition)£13.99 -
Charleston: Race, Water & the Coming Storm£13.99 -
Constance£11.99 -
The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism & Barbarism£9.99
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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 – Anya, Milka, Petya and Aleksey, whose lives, like those of their Western counterparts, are fuelled by sex, alcohol and cigarettes – yearn for a world of Levi’s, 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.
