001 Independent publisher
Northoward publishes concise guides on habit, focus, and the small architecture of a working life — written for adults, edited like books.
Edited slowly
Short books · kept under 150 pp. · no filler
002 The list, by subject
Our catalog gathers around four subjects. Each is a slow argument we return to across several books, rather than a category we invented for the shelf.
i.
Titles on the practice of paying attention in a distracted decade.
ii.
The small architecture of routines that hold up under a real week.
iii.
Reading for the pivots — career, place, work you actually want to keep.
iv.
Method without hustle. Notes on doing the work without performing it.
003 From the current list
A short bench, drawn from the four pillars. Each is a self-contained book, not the first chapter of anything larger.
Attention & Focus · 84 pp.
Notes on getting your attention back
A short book on reclaiming the kind of focus that lets you finish a paragraph — and a project. Written for anyone who suspects the problem is not their phone but their pace.
$19 Read the sample
Quiet Productivity · 112 pp.
Seven days, honestly kept
A practical field guide to structuring a workweek you can actually sustain. Covers the shape of a good Monday, the middle-of-the-week slump, and what to protect on Friday.
$24 Read the sample
Decisions & Direction · 140 pp.
On revising the plan you inherited
For the mid-career reader wondering whether the plan still fits. A method for auditing the assumptions underneath a job, a city, a schedule.
$29 Read the sample
Habit & Craft · 72 pp.
Habit-keeping without the theater
A modest book about writing things down. Neither bullet journal nor productivity system — just the older, quieter practice of keeping a ledger of days.
$18 Read the sample
004 From the editorial note
We are not a productivity brand and we are not a self-help imprint. We publish short books — most under 150 pages — on attention, habit, and the ordinary architecture of good days, edited the way books used to be edited: slowly, with a red pencil, and with the assumption that the reader is an adult.
— Eleanor Whitfield, Founder & Editor
005 Masthead
Eleanor Whitfield — Founder & Editor
Former acquisitions editor at a small university press, later a research librarian for a mid-Atlantic public library system. Founded Northoward in 2024 to publish the kind of short, practical books she kept recommending and could not find in print.
006 Reader questions
Plain answers, in the order readers usually ask them. Anything else, our address is at the foot of the page.
