An independent press

Old stories, carefully made.

Rodniki Press publishes books about myth and folklore, the old tales, beliefs and customs of the Slavic world and beyond, and the art that grew up around them. Our books are illustrated, made to be read slowly, and built to last on the shelf.

The list

Books in print and in preparation

Twelve Nights by the Stove · Book One

The Hut on Chicken Legs

The Story of Baba Yaga

Lina Davenant

Winter, 1880, in a village of the Russian north. Over the twelve holy nights between Christmas and Epiphany, a family by the stove tells the tales of the old woman of the forest, and the book follows Baba Yaga through two centuries of folklore, scholarship and art. The village is invented. Everything else is real.

Genre: Narrative non-fiction, folklore and mythology
Paperback: 5.5 × 8.5 in, illustrated in colour · ISBN 978-1-995812-00-7
Ebook: Kindle
Status: Out now

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Twelve Nights by the Stove · Book Two

The Turning Year

The Story of the Russian Village Year

Lina Davenant

The same house in Rodniki, the winter of 1881. This time the twelve evenings follow the whole village year round, from the Christmas fortunes to Maslenitsa, the birches of Trinity, Kupala night and the harvest, all the way to Pokrov.

Genre: Narrative non-fiction, folklore and mythology
Paperback: 5.5 × 8.5 in, illustrated in colour · ISBN 978-1-995812-01-4
Ebook: Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo and other ebook stores · ISBN 978-1-995812-02-1
Status: Out now in paperback and as an ebook

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Lady of Tears Duet · Book One

A Lament in Clay

Lina Davenant

Mesopotamia, the 1920s. A Russian émigrée translator talks her way onto an archaeological dig with a forged letter of recommendation, and finds the old gods of the land between the rivers less silent than the professors believe. An adventure romance with a touch of the uncanny.

Genre: Historical adventure romance
Paperback: 4.25 × 7 in pocket edition, pen-and-ink illustrations · ISBN 978-1-995812-04-5
Ebook: ISBN 978-1-995812-03-8
Status: Ebook out now. Paperback coming soon

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About the press

Rodniki is Russian for “springs”: the cold springs that rise at the foot of a hill and never freeze, not even in the hardest January. Old stories are like that. They keep running under everything, and every so often someone comes down with a bucket.

Rodniki Press is a small independent press. We publish narrative non-fiction about myth and folklore, fiction that grows out of the same old roots, and new editions of beautiful books that have been out of print for too long. Pictures matter to us as much as words: our books are illustrated with old prints, paintings and photographs, and with drawings made for them.

For bookshops and libraries

Our paperbacks are distributed worldwide by Ingram. Bookshops and libraries can order them through Ingram and its partners at the standard trade discount, and they are returnable. Any bookshop can order a copy for you by its ISBN.

For review copies, rights and translation enquiries, events and anything else, please write to us.

Write to us

publish@rodnikipress.com