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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: Making Art and Making a Living

Making Art and Making a Living

Mason Currey

A history of making art and making a living—of patrons, day jobs, side hustles and other adventures in funding a creative life, featuring writers, artists, composers and performers from the Renaissance to Late Capitalism.

Book cover: One Morning in March

One Morning in March

Stephen McGinty

The full story of Dunblane on its 30th anniversary, the first time it has been properly told

Book cover: GIRLS®

GIRLS®

Freya India

A bold and timely investigation into how it feels to grow up in a world where every anxiety of girlhood has been commodified

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: Green Ink

Green Ink

Stephen May

A novel of politicians, spies and lovers, from the author of Sell Us the Rope

Book cover: The Puma

The Puma

Daniel Wiles

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

Book cover: Meeting the English

Meeting the English

Kate Clanchy

Book cover: The Propagandist

The Propagandist

Cécile Desprairies

An extraordinary autobiographical novel of one French family’s experiences during the Occupation

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: 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: Presumed Guilty

Presumed Guilty

Scott Turow

The new novel by the author of Presumed Innocent

Book cover: Harold Wilson

Harold Wilson

Alan Johnson

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


Updates

Time to Think by Hannah Barnes has been shortlisted for The Unwin Award

Hannah Barnes’s Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children has been shortlisted for the 2026 Unwin Award. The Unwin Award recognises non-fiction writers in the earlier stages of their careers whose work is considered to have made a significant contribution to the world.

Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow has been nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award

Scott Turow’s acclaimed sequel to PRESUMED INNOCENT has been nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel!