Marlow & TideIndependent Children's Publishing · Est. 1987

Small press. Tall tales.

We have published picture books from our offices by the river since 1987. We believe the best stories for children are the ones that feel found rather than written, as if they had always been out there, waiting for someone to fish them up.

Author Spotlight: Nanette T. Whinny, author of the beloved Seal Books, is represented exclusively by Marlow & Tide. Meet her, as far as that is possible.

What we publish

Eight to ten titles a year: stories of boats, weather, animals behaving unusually, and problems solved by ordinary courage. We read everything we receive, eventually, in the order the tide brings it in.

A note on our name

People ask. The answer is unsatisfying: there has never been a Mr Marlow, and the tide belongs to everyone. The founder maintained that the name simply arrived in the right order, and we have not rearranged it since.