Discover the Independent Alliance: RBF 2025 Stall Highlights
Guest
An alliance of 18 independent publishing houses sharing a common vision: editorial excellence and original, diverse publishing.
This year’s book fair welcomes a few authors from across their presses, Jessica Gaitan Johannesson and Keio Yoshida with Scribe and Mazen Maarouf from Granta. You’ll also find lots on the stall from one of our favourites from local, B Corp certified Scottish powerhouse Canongate!
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- Jokes for the Gunmen
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- Maarouf, Mazen, Wright, Jonathan

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- The Nerves and Their Endings
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- Jessica Gaitan Johannesson

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- Pride and Prejudices: Queer Lives and the Law
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- Keio Yoshida

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- Yr Dead
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- Sax, Sam

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- The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy : navigating the world of ‘normal people’
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- Tornvall, Clara, Olsson, Alice

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- Colony
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- Norlin, Annika

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- On Connection
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- Tempest, Kae

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- Muckle Flugga
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- Michael Pedersen

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- poyums annaw
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- Pennie, Len

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- Erasure
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- Everett, Percival

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- Language City : The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues
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- Perlin, Ross

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- Haunted Tales : Ghostly stories for the darkest nights.
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- Macqueen, Adam
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- Men Explain Things to Me
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- Solnit, Rebecca

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- Oddbody
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- Keating, Rose

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- The Woman Dies
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- Matsuda, Aoko

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- Under the Eye of the Big Bird
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- Kawakami, Hiromi

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- Tenants : The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency
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- Spratt, Vicky

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- The Ungrateful Refugee : What Immigrants Never Tell You
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- Nayeri, Dina

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- Behind You is the Sea : The ‘Dazzling’ Debut Novel Exploring Lives of Palestinian Families
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- Muaddi Darraj, Susan

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- Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave : My Cemetery Journeys
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- Enriquez, Mariana

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- The Book of Memory : Or, How to Live Forever
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- Rowlands, Mark

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- The Dead of Winter : The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas
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- Clegg, Sarah

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- How to Teach Economics to Your Dog : A Quirky Introduction
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- Campbell, Rebecca, McGowan, Anthony

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- Three Worlds : Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
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- Shlaim, Avi
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- Humanish : How Anthropomorphism Makes Us Smart, Weird and Delusional
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- Gregg, Justin

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- Critical Hits : Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit
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- Machado, Carmen Maria, Lennon, J Robert

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- On Mysticism : The Experience of Ecstasy
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- Critchley, Simon

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- And How Does That Make You Feel? : everything you (n)ever wanted to know about therapy
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- Fletcher, Joshua

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- Native Nations : A Millennium in North America
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- DuVal, Kathleen