Submit a book of
ideas.
We are an independent UK publisher reading books about ideas and society for our founding list. Unagented submissions welcome, authors never pay, and we answer everything within 30 days.
No agent required · No author fees · Answered within 30 days
What we’re looking for
- Psychology, cognition and decision-making, carefully evidenced
- Innovation and how new things actually come about
- Work, culture and the social change technology is driving
- An argument with a spine — clearly made and honestly sourced
- The book someone finishes and immediately presses on a friend
What we’re not
- Loose manifesto writing with weak evidence
- Books without a clear reader in mind
- Broad cultural commentary with no distinct claim
Everything else in ideas & society — we genuinely want to see it.
Who writes these books: Academics, journalists, practitioners and essayists writing for readers rather than for peers.
Send it to us
Or email [email protected] with your title in the subject line
A covering note, a short synopsis and an opening sample is all we need to start. You keep every right in your work unless and until a publishing agreement is signed. Full guidelines if you’d like the detail first.
Not quite your subject?
Science & Technology
Popular science, computing, artificial intelligence, engineering, medicine and the technologies changing the world.
Business, Finance & Economics
Founders, leadership, organisations, markets, investing, economics and the future of work.
Selected Fiction
Speculative fiction, near-future novels and intelligent thrillers with a substantial idea at their centre.