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OUR STORY

'For a small press they have a huge presence and it is vital for all of us that they grow, continue and thrive.'
– Max Porter (author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers)

'A lynchpin of the indie scene.'
– The Bookseller

Influx Press was founded in 2011 by Gary Budden and Kit Caless, quickly becoming one the UK’s most celebrated independent publishers.

Described as a ‘lynchpin of the indie scene’, Influx has a proven track record of identifying high-quality literature, receiving both critical acclaim, prize-nominations, prize-wins, and breakout commercial success for our novels and short-story collections.

Influx has launched the careers of many writers who have gone onto critical and commercial success – including Darran Anderson, Jeffrey Boakye, Eley Williams, Eliza Clark and many more – whilst always upholding our commitment to publishing bold and innovative literature.

Over the years, we have seen significant successes with Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams (2017) winning the James Tait Black Award; Boy Parts by Eliza Clark (2020), which sold over 60,000 copies, with a TV adaptation on its way; and Percival Everett’s The Trees in 2022, shortlisted for the prestigious 2022 Booker Prize.

The Booker shortlisting brought Influx into a room where we mingled with Dua Lipa, Queen Camilla, and all the great and the good of the UK publishing industry. 

The question was: where do we go from here?

Having run Influx for over a decade and having achieved more than we had ever thought possible, it was decided that a period of rest and reflection was needed while the future direction of the press was decided.

Publishing can be a stressful and unstable business, and after a decade of running the press, it felt like the right time to pause. With authors moving on – with our blessing – to bigger publishers to further their careers, we were left with the question about what our role is in the industry and how to achieve a greater degree of stability for the press.

Were we there to merely feed the Big 5 publishing houses, or to do something genuinely different?

WHERE ARE WE NOW?

Kit Caless took the decision to step back from Influx in 2023 to pursue academic interests and a new career. 

Gary Budden now spearheads a new list and new direction for the press, with Influx beginning to publish new titles again in 2024, such as Nour Abi-Nakhoul’s Supplication, Elizabeth Hand’s Generation Loss, and Paola Ferrante’s Her Body Among Animals, signifying our return to publishing quality, challenging literature.

2025 marks our full return to the independent publishing scene with a brand new look, a new logo, twelve new titles for the year, and a renewed commitment to doing what we do best.

To get to where we want to be and establish Influx in its new revived form, we need your help in raising money to get Influx back at the heart of the UK independent publishing world, creating quality, innovative books that you want to read.

WHERE HAVE I SEEN INFLUX BEFORE?

Influx Press titles are stocked nationally and internationally. 

Or books have won, and been shortlisted for, several prizes including The Republic of Consciousness Prize, The Dylan Thomas Prize, Gordon Burn Prize, James Tait Black Award, and the Booker Prize.

Our books have been featured in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Quietus, Dazed, The Big Issue, New Statesman, VICE, and many more

THE 2025 LIST

2025 has the following titles coming your way – powerful debut novels, groundbreaking short fiction, reissues of lost classics of weird fiction and much more!

LOCAL HAUNTS – Adam Scovell

'One of the most interesting and original young British writers about landscape, culture and people that I know; consistently adventurous in his explorations of place as a novelist, essayist, critic and film-maker.'
– Robert Macfarlane

For more than a decade, writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell has been preoccupied by the strange connections between place and culture: curious about the graves of writers, determined to find the locations of iconic films, intrigued by the landscapes that inspired novels.

Taken from a range of print and digital publications, including work published by Sight & Sound, Literary Hub, Caught By The River, and Little White Lies, as well as Scovell’s Celluloid Wicker Man site that brought many ideas surrounding Folk Horror and the Urban Wyrd to prominence in the early 2010s, Local Haunts brings together a decade of work treading the ghostways and the corpse roads of film, literature, and art.

AVAILABLE DARK – Elizabeth Hand

‘Elizabeth Hand’s Cass Neary novels, rightly praised for their icy tension and remarkable darkness, are threaded, like the best of punk in any medium, on a bloodied yet admirably stubborn humanism.’
– William Gibson

A searing and iconoclastic crime novel in which photographer Cass Neary, introduced in the underground classic Generation Loss, finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of crime in Scandinavia's coldest corners.

In Available Dark, the sequel to the award-winning Generation Loss, Cass Neary finds her own worst fears confirmed: it's always darkest before it turns completely black.

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH IT'S KILLING US BOTH – Mariah Stovall

'A rare thing: a genuinely successful rock novel… compassionate and filled with a sparkling intelligence about the human condition.’
— NPR

Meet Khaki Oliver, a woman perennially trying to disappear: into a codependent friendship; an ill-advised boyfriend; the punk scene; or simply, the ether. 

Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City, I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both is a Black woman’s coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the slipperiness of sanity.

LANDSCAPES – Christine Lai

'In cool, sinewy prose, this astute and timely novel explores the roles of beauty, art, and passion in a time of survival.'
– Kirkus Reviews

Set in a near-future fraught with ecological collapse, Christine Lai’s mesmerising and prismatic debut novel Landscapes is a brilliant exploration of memory, empathy, preservation, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal.

Recalling the works of Rachel Cusk and Kazuo Ishiguro, Landscapes is an elegiac and spellbinding blend of narrative, essay, and diary that reinvents the country-house novel for our age of catastrophe, announcing the arrival of an extraordi­narily gifted new writer.

THE TERRIBLE CHANGES – Joel Lane

'Joel Lane will endure for as long as there is interest in visionary writers of quality.'
– Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual

The Terrible Changes is a journey through the shadow-realm between reality and dream, between clarity and madness, between the living and the dead. In Joel Lane's fiction, the weird is a symbolic language expressing the chilling beauty, sadness and mystery of real life, combining the supernatural with themes of human loss, passion, solitude and despair, in the tradition of Robert Aickman, Ramsey Campbell, and M. John Harrison.

Long unavailable, The Terrible Changes is now back in print for a new audience, adding to Joel Lane’s legacy as a true master of the weird.

DELIVERYWOMAN – Eva Wyles

Deliverywoman is the stunning debut collection from Eva Wyles – thirteen short stories that dive into the complexities of human connection, the pursuit of meaning, and modern-day loneliness.

Across a diverse cast of characters – from teachers and gas station workers to hedonistic revellers and wealthy gamers – Wyles explores the strange dimensions of our world and the dangers of ordinary life, with needle-sharp writing both real and surreal.

Deliverywoman sits alongside A.M.Homes’ The Safety of Objects and Ottessa Moshfegh’s Homesick for Another World, announcing the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction.

ENGINES BENEATH US – Malcolm Devlin

‘Malcolm Devlin’s work feels as if it sprung directly from the compost of ’70s folk horror, finding inspiration — and a renewed vigor — in the tropes and assumptions of authors such as Robert Aickman, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Holdstock, and Joan Aiken.’
– LA Review of Books

Rob is a Crescent kid. Born and raised in the sheltered circle of grey semis, built to house the employees of The City Works and their families. Under the eye of the reclusive Mr Olhouser, the residents of The Crescent go about their work, their lessons and their law, accompanied by the never-ending sound of The Works machinery deep under the ground.

When Lee Wrexler moves into The Crescent, he brings with him something dangerous from the outside. Not just a reputation for trouble, but an outside perspective that will ultimately show Rob that the home he always thought he had a measure of is a stranger and far more unsettling place than he could have imagined.

A FOREIGN COUNTRY IS THE PAST – Fernando Sdrigotti

‘His narrators often want to hide behind their fictions but end up “naked” on the page.’
– TLS

A girl becomes entranced by the sound of cicadas at her family’s weekend home, believing the trees are singing to her as she grapples with memories, summer heat, and her mother’s death.

On a sweltering day, three friends hang out on an abandoned pier, exploring their own violence and toxic masculinity.

Overwhelmed by a sense of foreboding, a man seeks solace in a privatised cathedral, comically navigating religious bureaucracy and existential angst.

A Foreign Country is the Past is the captivating new collection from the acclaimed author of Jolts. Centering on identity and memory, viewed through a distinctive Argentine lens, these fifteen tales of personal transformation and poignant reflections on the past are a profound exploration of the spaces between places and the echoes of time.

MIDNIGHT BLUE – Joel Lane

 Vincent Black, Scottish-Brummie sound engineer and aspiring folk singer, is turning fifty. A Communist, former train engineer, and a heroin addict who is obsessed with mystical dreams about dead singers such as Nico, Sandy Denny, and Janis Joplin.

After the drug-related deaths of a number of Vincent’s friends leave him confused and frightened, he tries to deal with his sense of loss by playing music, and by escaping into a romantic affair with a younger woman who is just his type: artistic, spiritual and possessed of a sense of humour. Then, she disappears under mysterious circumstances. And when a lover from his student days begins stalking him, Vincent is panic-stricken – because that person is supposed to be dead…

Midnight Blue is Joel Lane’s third and final novel, never published until now, completing the informal trilogy that began with From Blue to Black and continued in The Blue Mask.

HARD LIGHT – Elizabeth Hand

‘Elizabeth Hand’s Hard Light is a pitch-perfect punk noir that makes a speed-fueled, mad-dash tour through an avant garde underbelly London and the lost landscape of rural England.'
– Paul Tremblay

Strobe-lit against an apocalyptic background of rock and roll, rave culture, fast drugs, and transgressive photography, Hard Light continues the breathless, breathtaking saga of Cassandra Neary in the series that began with Generation Loss and Available Dark.

Cass, 'one of noir's great antiheroes', is suddenly enmeshed in a web of murder, betrayal, and artistic and sexual obsession that extends from London to the stark beauty of Land’s End , where she uncovers an archaeological enigma that could change our view of human history―if she survives.

TENDER – Lauren Du Plessis

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Twenty-five-year-old Nell has curated a perfect museum of the self: early accolades in her career as an archaeobotanist, a pastel Instagram filled with flowers, and a consistent manicure routine to give a veneer of control.

When two ‘bog bodies’ are discovered in elaborate floral graves in a Somerset fen, Nell gets the opportunity of a lifetime to excavate and uncover their secrets. But the deeper she digs into the fertile, waterlogged mud, the more she uncovers repressed memories of her unsettled childhood and strained relationship with her sister… and the more her body manifests her own wildness in ways she can’t ignore. 

Recalling the work of Sarah Moss and Daisy Johnson, Tender blends folkloric horror and an exploration of womanhood against a background of eco-anxiety,  beautifully depicting the quiet violence of overcoming and accepting our darkest sides.