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@dauntbookspub.bsky.social
a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*)
So lovely seeing our latest trio in a line! Oh to be in ANY of those pictures for real right now. Our latest, Over the Water, came out just last week:
Raven Books@ravenbooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is a wonderful series from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
FRIDAY VIBES KICKED IN A DAY EARLY AT DAUNT, SEE CRUCIAL CORRECTION!! Take off those flipflops, fold up the deckchair and get back to WORK, Daunt
Milton Keynes Literary Festival@mklitfest.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe'd love to see you all - online or in-person - but please note that the event is on SATURDAY
Standing by the window I heard it, while waiting for the turn. In hot light and chill air it was the crossing flow of even life, hurt in the mouth but exhausted with passion and joy - RIP J.H. Prynne
this is TOMORROW!
Milton Keynes Literary Festival@mklitfest.bsky.social · 4mo agoRising authors Derek Owusu and Madeleine Dunnigan bring fresh takes to the coming of age novel. Hear them in conversation about their novels, inspirations and writing. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #fiction #novels @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
This year's anthology is on islands, and is out TOMORROW! It features a beautiful essay from @sineadgleeson.bsky.social, whose conversation with Douglas Stuart around publication of HAGSTONE was partly the inspiration for the theme. Here's a wonderful substack from her:
THIS SATURDAY!!!
Milton Keynes Literary Festival@mklitfest.bsky.social · 4mo agoRising authors Derek Owusu and Madeleine Dunnigan bring fresh takes to the coming of age novel. Hear them in conversation about their novels, inspirations and writing. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #fiction #novels @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
Rising authors Derek Owusu and Madeleine Dunnigan bring fresh takes to the coming of age novel. Hear them in conversation about their novels, inspirations and writing. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #fiction #novels @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
Rising authors Derek Owusu and Madeleine Dunnigan bring fresh takes to the coming of age novel. Hear them in conversation about their novels, inspirations and writing. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #fiction #novels @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
!!! WHAT a kind message to start the day on, crikey 🧡🧡🧡
Raven Books@ravenbooks.bsky.social · 4mo agoWent onto the @dauntbookspub.bsky.social website for 1 (one) book* and, being very restrained, ordered 8 *"How does one resist a repressive regime? And who gets to shape the truths we live by and take for granted?" dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/twiligh...
In May hear what it takes from @marigoldatkey.bsky.social to be an editor @dauntbookspub.bsky.social; from Sarah Dennis owner of indie @borzoibookshop.bsky.social; and what it took for Fatima Bhutto to break free from #coercivecontrol #memoir TICKETS: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Very much admired, among other virtues, how she created a profoundly recognisable sense of place without a lot of obvious signalling.
Bainbridge was a master. Great work from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social.
David Hayden@seventydys.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe sharp, dark, dazzling fiction of Beryl Bainbridge is being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, starting with ‘The Bottle Factory Outing’ & ‘An Awfully Big Adventure’ intros by Yiyun Li & A.K. Blakemore. @mcnallyeditions.com in US. Two of my faves ‘The Dressmaker’ & ‘Harriet Said’ to follow.
Love that our older books continue to be championed:
Shalimar Books@shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 5mo agoA moving portrait of love, hardship, and struggle, 'Ants Among Elephants' is also that rare thing: a personal history of modern India told from the bottom up. 📚💜 The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, poets and revolutionaries. 📚📚💜 @dauntbookspub.bsky.social #booksky
Thrilled to announce we have a new editor heading our way, to replace the wonderful Dredhëza: Ben Oldfield, currently at the Wylie Agency, will be joining us at the end of this month. We're so excited to see how he helps shape the list: www.thebookseller.com/news/daunt-b...
Daunt Books Publishing appoints Ben Oldfield as editor
Ben Oldfield has been appointed to the role of editor at Daunt Books Publishing.
thebookseller.com
Over the (nearly full) moon to announce a new Amina Cain is on the way. This exquisite, enigmatic novel will slip under your skin and into your dreams. Forever grateful to Amina (and Devon at FSG) for trusting us with her brilliance.
Amina Memory@aminamemorycain.bsky.social · 5mo agoI wrote another novel & I'm so very happy to be working with Milo Walls at @fsgbooks.bsky.social on it, to be publishing again with @marigoldatkey.bsky.social at @dauntbookspub.bsky.social & with Michael Heyward at @textpublishing.bsky.social. Thank you Mel Flashman! Thank you Devon Mazzone!
not one of our own books but look at this lovely write-up, all of us who haven't read it clearly need to remedy that
Deborah@deborahzafer.bsky.social · 5mo agoBook 11 of 2026 (v pleased to be reading more this year so far) was this short but beautiful book. I really loved its tenderness and the balance of melancholy and sweetness. Thanks to @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, whose displays always tempt me to buy new things 🖤
a wave of welcome to @waystonebooks.bsky.social - a new indie bookshop on the Isle of Skye (😍), run by 'writers, community organisers and queer firefighters', as if they couldn't get any dreamier?!
An excellent novel. Also being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social in the UK!
Dorian Stuber@ds228.bsky.social · 6mo agoExcellent. Devastating ending. Even if, like me, you are allergic to books about the theatre, you will be drawn in. Forthcoming reissue from @mcnallyeditions.com with great intro by Yiyun Li.
red frame + water +... no, the combining factor: three cracking books. JEAN out just this week, so very happy and grateful to see it in this trio!
Benedict Sangster@benedictsangster.bsky.social · 6mo agoThree new acquisitions from a recent Cambridge trip: Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield Jean - Madeleine Dunnigan (a @dauntbookspub.bsky.social original) The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
The most wonderful review by Neil Bartlett for @theguardian.com's BOTD on Madeleine Dunnigan's '[It will] speak to anyone who can remember how glorious – and dangerous – it once felt to find yourself in possession of a fully functioning heart.' Out THURSDAY! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Jean by Madeleine Dunnigan review – sex and teenage secrets
Queer self-discovery drives this powerful coming-of-age debut set in a bohemian 1970s school
theguardian.com
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
nature.com
😍😍😍 I wanted to choose just one non-daunt book to cheer on bar our own EARTH 7 but goddamn this stack is too good, help:
Liam Bishop@liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 6mo agoHere’s some more 2026 books that I’m looking forward to this year 👀 What have you got your eye on?
You must be mistaken Marguerite Duras, from 'The Malady of Death', tr Barbara Bray
reprint of Hernan Diaz's Pultizer-finalist IN THE DISTANCE arriving at the warehouse tmrw, a book praised by the Sunday Times as ‘Like Huckleberry Finn written by Cormac McCarthy: an adventure story as well as a meditation on the meaning of home.’ cdauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/in-the-...
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Any event at Bàrd Books is a good time but the Debut Nights are especially fun - a lovely way for debuts to kick their campaigns off, and for readers to hear from THE hottest new writers:
Marigold Atkey@marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 6mo agowowza, this month's Debut Nights line-up at Bàrd Books is SO GOOD!! Our own beloved Madeleine Dunnigan, author of JEAN, joins Rebecca Perry (MAY WE FEED THE KING - adore, adore), Madeline Cash (LOST LAMBS - apparently HUGE fun) and Tobi Coventry (HE'S THE DEVIL - killer title, killer cover): Feb 18!