Earlier this year, Ceci Browning wrote a piece for the Times of London headlined, There’s a crisis in non-fiction book sales. What’s to blame? Facts were facts, including this: " according to Nielsen, sales of non-fiction books in 2025 were down 6 per cent compared with 2024. It was the lowest yearly total since 2017, the sorry end point of years of painfully consistent decline. " The article gets into some reasons for this, explaining that commercial presses are unwilling to take risks on authors without big platforms. Fine, and this is something indie presses may be more willing to work around, and actually help establish a platform. But a conversation I'm having and hearing more is that no one wants to read depressing political books when our everyday politics is infuriating. It's not even infuriating for those of us on the left now; it's depressing, in that everything awful is a fait accompli. We have a fascist president who continues to enjoy widespread ap...