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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

it makes me so sad and angry!! Horrible.

Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Horrible to hear someone came close to being scammed by someone pretending to be us. We would never offer a publishing package in exchange for a fee. Please be vigilant! Scams are increasingly sophisticated.

A warning not to trust anyone claiming to be Daunt Books and offering a publishing package in exchange for a fee. It's not us!!

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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:

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

oh, THANK you!! They're always especially lovely to publish, as at the core of each one we want something that brings many people some form of happiness and escape, so *we* then get to think about nice things too.

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

SORRY, MY FRIDAY HAT WAS ON A DAY EARLY

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 22/04/2026

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

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

it was such a great evening and I thi-ink it happened around the same time that I had read Carys Davies's Clear for the first time, so it really got me thinking about the draw islands have on writers and readers...

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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:

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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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

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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

we need to put together a playlist for this one, I feel...

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

!!! WHAT a kind message to start the day on, crikey 🧡🧡🧡

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

YOU ARE SO KIND!!! thank you!! Hope you love THE TWILIGHT ZONE - a team favourite (and - ages away, unfort - a new Nona Fernández is on the way and we are SO excited)

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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...

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Hey, so glad you're reading and enjoying!! Thank you 🐻

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Very much admired, among other virtues, how she created a profoundly recognisable sense of place without a lot of obvious signalling.

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

THANK YOU, David!! (I'm very behind on bluesky, help) (when will someone make a film of Harriet Said???)

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Bainbridge was a master. Great work from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social.

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

oh, THANK YOU!! So excited to be bringing her back, she's so wonderful.

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Love that our older books continue to be championed:

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Perks you more than deserve!! Hope you love; we think they're so special.

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

isn't that store a gem? Lucky you to be in that neck of the woods on such a glorious day. Thank you for supporting it!!

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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...

thebookseller.com

Daunt Books Publishing appoints Ben Oldfield as editor

Ben Oldfield has been appointed to the role of editor at Daunt Books Publishing.

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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.

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🎊🍾📚 ah, hooray!! AND SO IT BEGINS! So exciting ❤️

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

hey, thank you!! this makes me so happy! Hope you had a WONDERFUL first weekend!!

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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?!

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

An excellent novel. Also being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social in the UK!

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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!

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

hey!! Thank you!! God, what a juicy trio - a good amount of darkness here...

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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...

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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

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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...

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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.

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

it is *exactly* that - next draft arrives in my inbox Monday, proofs... end of March, maybe?? Maybe earlier?? I'll make sure we send you one, it's pretty special

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

😍😍😍 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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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

You must be mistaken Marguerite Duras, from 'The Malady of Death', tr Barbara Bray

She asks if you've seen the sea, asks if it's day, if it's light.
You say the sun's rising, but that at this time of year it takes a long time to light up the whole sky.
She asks you what color the sea is.
You say: Black.
She says the sea's never black.
You must be mistaken.

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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:

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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...

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Fatima Bhutto on secrets, lies and surviving coercive control – podcast

The Pakistani writer on enduring an abusive relationship in the public eye, and how she broke free

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