About
Ilish Books
Independent Bangladeshi publisher producing beautifully designed books on travel, photography, history, literature, and culture.
To publish books that witness our time and its silences.
We believe in slow books — carefully reported, deeply observed, and thoughtfully written. Our list is shaped by long engagement with the world, and a commitment to clarity, honesty, and craft.
Field-Based
Books grounded in lived observations, research, and place.
Slow Nonfiction
Work that resists noise, speed, and shallow commentary.
Deltaic Perspective
Publishing from Bangladesh, speaking to the world.
Global Dialogue
Stories that travel across borders, languages, and times.
We are drawn to stories that map the edges — of land and water, memory and forgetting, development and displacement.
ILISH BOOKS began as a question:
What do we owe the places we come from?
This imprint is our attempt to listen — to rivers, coastlines, people, and silences that rarely
make it into books.
Ilish (Hilsa) is a fish of migration. It moves between rivers and the sea, carrying memory in its
journey. So do the stories we publish.
Thank you for being part of this journey.