Synthos Press • Independent Non-Fiction
Evidence-led books for readers who want the full picture.
Synthos Press publishes evidence-led non-fiction on power, persuasion, ownership, health, and the systems that shape everyday life. These are books for readers who want a clearer account of how those systems work and whose interests they serve.
Featured title
The Quiet Con
What the Alcohol Industry Hopes You Never Figure Out.
A systems story about how ordinary drinking became the unexamined default. The Quiet Con traces the machinery behind those habits: distorted science, lobbying, stress as a sales tool, and the quiet reversal that makes not drinking feel like the choice that needs explaining.
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Books
From the catalogue
A selection from the current list. Browse the books for the full catalogue.
The Britain That Never Was
An examination of nostalgia, heritage, monarchy and political language, tracing how a mythic national past is used to excuse an unequal present and protect existing power.
Nothing to Show for It
An examination of ownership, subscriptions, and consumer power, tracing the quiet shift from possession to permission and the cost of paying for access on terms you do not control.
The Quiet Con
An examination of ordinary drinking and commercial persuasion, tracing how the alcohol industry taught people to treat routine consumption as harmless, normal, and hardly worth questioning.
Journal
From Perspectives
Essays and commentary that extend the questions raised by the books, across publishing, ownership, health, public life, and the systems that shape ordinary experience.
Why Alcohol Sponsorship Still Looks Like Public Life
Alcohol sponsorship can look like ordinary public life, but it helps make commercial influence feel familiar, local and socially approved.
When a Product Stops Working, What Do You Still Own?
When software support ends or a service changes, a product can remain in your home while control over it disappears.
When “Efficiency” Becomes a Way of Avoiding Ownership
When efficiency becomes the only measure of a public service, ownership, accountability and power can disappear from the argument.
Independent press
A small independent press with a clear editorial line.
Based in Yorkshire, Synthos Press publishes evidence-led non-fiction with a small, coherent list built around clarity, rigour, and a willingness to look closely at accepted arrangements.
Read more about the press on About Synthos Press, or explore the current list on Books.