Linen Press is a small, independent publisher run by women, for women. We are now the only UK wide indie women’s press in the UK.

Our policy is to encourage and promote women writers and to give voice to a wide range of perspectives and themes that are relevant to women. We display and rejoice in the differences in female creative voices.

We publish books that are diverse, challenging, and surprising. The collective background of our writers is a multi-coloured patchwork of cultures, countries, ages and writing styles.

Established 2005  •  Finalist 2015 Women In Publishing Pandora award  •  Shortlisted 2019 Most Innovative Publisher Saboteur Awards.

 


Newest Releases

The Sun-Room
The Sun-Room is Jess Watts's electric prose-poem of rage and grief about a life halted by illness. She was a healthy young woman in her twenties, newly graduated from university, when a chronic post-viral illness put an end to her present life and to her hopes for the future. I am unravelling in losses like ribbons piled up around my feet. This is not a ME recovery memoir, rather a scream of anguish about the ongoing present. Jess, a very gifted writer, has written a raw-to-bleeding, beautiful book for herself and for everyone whose life is on hold because of chronic illness read more →
The Absent Heart
One woman, two men, how many love affairs? A powerful re-imagining of the three-way relationship between the young Robert Louis Stevenson, the beautiful and intelligent Frances Sitwell, and her partner Sidney Colvin. What is the chemistry between them and how does it change?  A fascinating exploration of the boundaries of friendship, love and desire. read more →
Born to Croft

Born to Croft

Ena MacDonald’s  popular, entertaining and sometimes forthright monthly columns written for Am Paipear are collected here in one book. Ena is renowned for her lifetimes dedication to traditional crofting methods and for her passionate advocacy of sustainable farming practices that protect and preserve the precious machairs and grasslands of her beloved Kyles on the Scottish island of North Uist. Born in 1940, Ena paints vivid pictures of growing up on a croft before machinery and 'going barefoot to collect the peats'. She records a way of life that has changed beyond recognition and is perhaps gone forever.