An independent publishing house with a small but passionate team, producing beautiful books and high calibre writing, and newly focused on Social Justice.

Impress Books was founded in 2004 as an independent publishing house focusing on previously unpublished writers of non-fiction and fiction. Our non-fiction list was launched with Being Luis in June 2005 and has continued to flourish with the addition of titles such as The Russian Countess: Escaping Revolutionary Russia and Of Sirens and Centaurs. We moved into publishing fiction in 2006 with 100 Ways to Improve the World. 

In 2019 we merged with Aelurus Publishing – a publisher of fantasy and science fiction – and in 2021 became a Social Enterprise, focused on hearing the voices of the marginalised in society.

For any licensing queries, please contact Jeffrey Collyer, jeff@impress-books.co.uk