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- 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...
- Reposted by Daunt Books PublishingNo 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...
- 😍😍😍 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:
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- 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-...
- 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:
- Fatima Bhutto is on the @theguardian.com's podcast with @nosheeniqbal.bsky.social, on surviving an abusive relationship while in the public eye. We publish her memoir THE HOUR OF THE WOLF on 26 Feb: www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
- Srimoyee Bagchi for the Telegraph India on Anuradha Roy's CALLED BY THE HILLS is a really wonderful review - beautiful, thoughtful articulation of what makes this memoir so special: www.telegraphindia.com/amp/books/rh...
- ICYMI: Fatima Bhutto was in this weekend's @theguardian.com, ahead of the publication of her memoir THE HOUR OF THE WOLF. A beautiful storyteller and person, her warmth and courage shines out:
- ‘Until I thought, what if I just tell the truth? And then it fell out of me - it didn’t even pour, it fell.’ Fatima Bhutto on her remarkable new memoir www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
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- Proofs are really fun because essentially we don't have to get approval from anyone. We just send the designers the copy and... give them free rein... these are two of our summer novels and couldn't be more different ALTHOUGH, mind you, both have masculinity and belonging at their heart
- Loving these proof covers from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
- Love that @seventydys.bsky.social extracts the serious core of Ashton Politanoff's 'Dad Had a Bad Day':
- Lovely, thoughtful review of Fatima Bhutto's THE HOUR OF THE WOLF: 'Tender and insightful'. Out in the US tomorrow (!), out in the UK next month. 'The uplifting finale begs the question of what valuable lessons we could all learn from respecting, rather than ransacking, the natural world.'
- 'Charged with intimate undercurrents of both resentment and affection' - @keeblearin.bsky.social for the @financialtimes.com on Elisa Shua Dusapin's THE OLD FIRE (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins and out now, hooray!!) (I can v much recommend Helen of Nowhere too)
- thought Mestra was yet another new imprint for a second there
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- Madeleine Dunnigan, author of Feb's debut JEAN, writing for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy on novels set in boarding schools: lithub.com/containment-...
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- Coincidentally, I had the honour to walk behind a beautiful ghost-horse of a borzoi just yesterday. Fatima Bhutto will be talking about The Hour of the Wolf over zoom on 06 May nb!
- 'well, ANYWAY' - come on, Atkey. No sloppy mistakes on the day, promise:
- DREAM @thetimes.com review from @cecibrowning.bsky.social of Elisa Shua Dusapin's THE OLD FIRE (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) - a pleasure to read. She GETS it!! www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
- Sarah Moss in the @theguardian.com's The Books of My Life: 'All books change my mind, that’s what they are for. Recently @hystericalblkns.bsky.social’s Ordinary Notes altered the way I understand much of the world around me.' www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
- TGI FRIDAY! Some bonus content from @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social of his interview with author of debut novel JEAN, Madeleine Dunnigan, and author @farah-ali.bsky.social
- Happy new year! I’ve released some more bonus content from this episode. I couldn’t resist! It features more of the conversation between @farah-ali.bsky.social and Madeleine on the books that inspired them! How could you not want more of this! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
- YES!!! This makes me so happy!! Come, fall in love with this wonderful book!! Thank you, @wearebookanista.bsky.social 🌎
- This July, we publish @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social's DAD HAD A BAD DAY. Recently unemployed Ned spirals into an obsession with tennis, putting everything else in his life at risk. Darkly comic, increasingly unhinged, this is a brilliant exploration of sport and masculinity. Cover by Luke Bird.
- ❤️💙 beat the January dark nights!! 💙❤️
- Want to know about some exciting books publishing soon - don’t forget the 2026 preview with Madeleine Dunnigan and @farah-ali.bsky.social We spoke about their books JEAN @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and TELEGRAPHY @cbeditions.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
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- Some books I managed to get through over the break! My favourite Tokarczuk after FLIGHTS, a big Dickens (a Christmas tradition), a new one from @galleybeggars.bsky.social and Gonzalo C.Garcia! Plus not pictured including SWIMING STUDIES by Leanne Shapton, Ben Pester’s novel, and Tim MacGabhann!
- Aspiring editors! Fancy joining our team? jobs.thebookseller.com/career/28558...
- let the heat sink deep into your bones
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- 'Tender, melancholic and evocative.' Lovely review of Elisa Shua Dusapin's new novel, THE OLD FIRE (tr. by Aneesa Abbas Higgins). Thank you, SBK and @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social ! THE OLD FIRE is out later this month and you can pre-order here dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/the-old...
- thank you, @ellacreamer.bsky.social, for incl Madeleine Dunnigan's JEAN in your @theguardian.com round-up of 2026 debut novels! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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- Really exciting news - Two Lines Press publish amazing stuff
- Our wonderful debut novelist Madeleine Dunnigan is on the Rippling Pages podcast with @farah-ali.bsky.social . I'm saving to listen to this weekend - I know it'll be a treat:
- HEAVEN. If any of you are looking for a sunlight- and delight-filled novel over Christmas, you couldn't go far wrong with this (I bet you've all read it before but you never know)
- OUTRAGEOUS stack of bangers!! Good *lord*. Honoured to see so many of our titles here - the company they are keeping is quite something. Particularly lovely to see LIFE WITH A STAR here, one that continues to tick along nicely but deserves many more readers:
- THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY 'captures the rhythms and idiosyncrasies of this vibrant metropolis [NYC] in sharp, insightful prose ... Gornick is a delightful companion – smart, curious and ever-observant. If, like me, you enjoy exploring cities on foot... you will likely love this one.'
- New on the blog today, Part One of my BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2025 - favourites from a year of reading. Featuring books by Edith Wharton, Barbara Pym, Caroline Blackwood, Vivian Gornick and more! #BookSky 💙📚 #BooksOfTheYear #Books #BOTY jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/m...
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