Independent books of ideas, history and memory

Stonecurrent Press is an independent press based in Cumbria. We publish books that test inherited ideas, record ordinary lives and examine how history continues to shape the present.

Poets, Politics & Philosophy

A series that returns to influential texts, tests their arguments against later evidence and asks one direct question: which ideas still survive today?Oscar Wilde: The Individual Against Authority

Editorial services

Stonecurrent Press offers selective editorial support for writers developing serious fiction and non-fiction. Each project is considered individually, with the scope and fee agreed before work begins.

About Stonecurrent Press (SCP)

Stonecurrent Press was established in Cumbria by writer Ian P. Loftus. It publishes work concerned with ideas, history, memory and the ways public events shape ordinary lives.