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Swift Press is an award-winning independent publishing company that launched in June 2020. Part of the Independent Alliance, we publish fiction and a wide range of non-fiction.

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Book cover: A Forever War

A Forever War

Colin Shindler

An impartial account of the post-War history of Israel and the Middle East

Book cover: GIRLS®

GIRLS®

Freya India

GIRLS® teases out and traces both technological and cultural shifts in the last decade and exposes the sinister and rapid intensification and ruthless commercialisation of the inner lives of girls and young women which leads to the loss of their authentic selves—a loss that corporations are all too ready to exploit.

Book cover: The Puma

The Puma

Daniel Wiles

From the author of Mercia's Take, winner of the Betty Trask Prize.

Book cover: Feast on Your Life

Feast on Your Life

Tamar Adler

A book of cooking, and love, and the delight cooking brings

Book cover: Presumed Guilty

Presumed Guilty

Scott Turow

The new novel by the author of Presumed Innocent

Book cover: The Mystery at Rake Hall

The Mystery at Rake Hall

Maureen Paton

A superb new historical crime series in which C.S. Lewis finds himself an unlikely detective

Book cover: Harold Wilson

Harold Wilson

Alan Johnson

The ex-politician and bestselling author’s take on the life and premierships of Harold Wilson

Book cover: I Can’t Stop Thinking About VAR

I Can’t Stop Thinking About VAR

Daisy Christodoulou

A short, punchy and funny book on the effect of VAR on the game of football, the players and the fans

Book cover: The Taoiseach

The Taoiseach

Iain Dale

The political history of modern Ireland told through the lives of its leaders

Book cover: One Hand Clapping

One Hand Clapping

Nikolay Kukushkin

Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin reveals the miracle by which consciousness evolved out of the natural world - from the birth of the cell to the majesty of our modern minds.

Book cover: Haunted Tales

Haunted Tales

Adam Macqueen

A collection of seasonal ghostly stories

Book cover: Tribal

Tribal

Michael Morris

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR

A revelatory, paradigm-shifting work from a renowned Columbia professor and 'one of the great social and cultural psychologists' (Amy Cuddy) that demystifies our tribal instincts and shows us how to use them to create positive change


Updates

Swift’s 2025 Books of the Year

‘Extraordinary’ | ‘Superbly suspenseful’ | ‘Deeply moving’
We’re delighted to end 2025 with thirteen fiction and non-fiction Books of the Year selected across Swift and Forum:
A Beginner’s Guide to Dying by Simon Boas
Can We Be Great Again? by Jeremy Hunt
Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt
God is an Englishman by Bijan Omrani
Hostage by Eli Sharabi
Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
Pots of Gold by David Hendon
Reparations by Nigel Biggar
Taking Manhattan by Russell Shorto
The Incidental Feminist by Tina Gaudoin
Margaret Thatcher by Iain Dale
The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey
The War on Science edited by Lawrence Krauss

The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck is the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Winner

Ben Shattuck’s acclaimed collection of short stories The History of Sound is the winner of the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.